Transformation Midwife

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Luton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Luton is seeking a Transformation Project Midwife to support the development and delivery of maternity services. The role involves coordinating change projects and representing midwifery care across multidisciplinary forums. Ideal candidates will have strong clinical skills, experience in managing change, and a commitment to improving care quality and safety for women and their families.

Benefits

Access to high-quality training and development

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Experience managing change and projects in a healthcare setting.
• Proven ability to work autonomously while providing expert clinical skills.
• Strong negotiation and persuasion abilities.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage maternity services projects to enhance care quality.
• Act as a change agent facilitating new models of care.
• Develop required documents and support project deliverables.

Skills

Change management

Project coordination

Clinical skills

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Education

Relevant midwifery qualification

Job description

Overview

The Transformation Project Midwife will be responsible for supporting the development, co-ordination and delivery of change programme(s) which align to the National Maternity Transformation programme, as well as national and local maternity services requirements such as CNST and the Ockenden Report, and NHS Long Term Plan. To work as an autonomous, competent practitioner and to have expert clinical skills, ensuring appropriate assessment, implementation and evaluation of care is achieved. Act as a resource for other members of the multidisciplinary team. Represent midwifery care in all multidisciplinary forums and represent the Better Births lead in her absence.

Responsibilities

• To coordinate and manage the projects that arise within maternity services that will support and enhance the quality and safety of care we offer to women and their families.
• Have some experience of managing change and/or projects and be willing to further develop this expertise within the role.
• To act as a change agent to facilitate the development and implementation of new models of care and practice by inspiring, negotiating & persuading colleagues to fulfil their potential.
• Contribute to performance improvement taking a lead for identified areas.
• Provide coordination of and participate in relevant working groups and provide project advice, expertise and support where requested.
• Develop required documents, reports, reviews and business cases to inform and drive transformation.
• Collate and present required information and data to support deliverables and milestones.
• Travel between hospital sites may be required.

About Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Values and recruitment

Our values: We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Additional information

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first six months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. The post holder will demonstrate leadership skills to support with negotiation, change management and communication to support the Better Births lead and maternity services in overcoming barriers to transformation and change. Engage with service users and other stakeholders to ensure that activities to support delivering the project plan(s) are coproduced and responsive to the needs of women and their families. The post holder will work with key stakeholders to help develop and deliver a project plan to achieve the nationally agreed targets. The post holder will support the coordination of sub-groups arising from the project and monitor progress to ensure on-time delivery.