Maternity Triage & Day Assessment Unit Ward Manager

NHS; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Maternity Triage & Day Assessment Unit Ward Manager. This role offers the opportunity to lead and inspire a team of midwives, ensuring high standards of care in a supportive environment. You'll be pivotal in managing resources, driving quality improvement, and facilitating professional development. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to innovation and excellence in maternity services, where your contributions will make a meaningful impact on the community. Embrace this chance to grow within a dynamic team and help shape the future of maternity care.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with a degree/diploma in Midwifery.
• Evidence of continued professional development and clinical experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop midwifery staff and services effectively.
• Ensure high-quality, safe, cost-effective care to women and families.

Skills

Clinical Midwifery Practice

Decision Making

Organizational Skills

Multi-disciplinary Team Coordination

Evidence-Based Practice

Education

Registered Midwife

Degree / Diploma in Midwifery

Job description

Maternity Triage & Day Assessment Unit Ward Manager

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT

To effectively manage and develop midwifery staff and services by providing professional and managerial leadership supporting the delivery of high quality, safe, cost-effective care to women, their families, and staff.

To inspire and facilitate the continuing development of Maternity Triage & day assessment unit by providing an open supportive and encouraging environment in which all staff feel valued and where best practice prospers.

Be part of Midwifery Management Team attending meetings, providing statistics, giving specialist advice as required, and part taking in the Manager of the day rota & on-call rota.

Act as a senior midwife within Maternity Inpatient Services supporting all areas if required, working 0.2 WTE clinically within Maternity core services, with managerial hours to be completed between Monday and Friday.

Main duties of the job

To provide significant knowledge, skills and expertise in antenatal and postnatal care & BSOTS to all staff, and be a point of contact for staff. To support the wider service as required.

Assumes responsibility for the management of both human and financial resources within Maternity Triage & Day assessment unit in an effective and efficient manner, liaising with Matron for Inpatient services and service managers as required. Holding 24-hour accountability for patient care within area of responsibility.

Demonstrates awareness of safeguarding adult and children, supporting the clinical team, escalating, and referring as appropriate.

About us

There's never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We're working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we've ever undertaken.Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as 'Good', and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome.

We love working here and think you will too.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications Training & Professional Development

• Registered Midwife
• Degree / Diploma in Midwifery and evidence of Continued Professional Development
• Root cause analysis trained

Experience

• Evidence of clinical experience as a band 6 midwife
• Knowledge and experience of risk management including experience in incident investigations
• Experience of implementing change in service provision
• Experience of managing employee relations issues
• Experience of guideline development and review

Skills, Abilities & Knowledge

• Ability to practice clinically in all areas of a fully integrated maternity service promoting excellence in clinical practice
• High level decision making and organisational skills
• Ability to co-ordinate, influence and liaise within a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to demonstrate evidence based practice and a woman centred approach to care provision

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT

£46,148 to £52,809 a yearPer annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Job share,Flexible working,Compressed hours