About this role
Job summary
Are you an enthusiastic, passionate and dedicated to provide high quality care midwife?
An opportunity has arisen for an experience midwife to join our team as Ward Lead Midwife.Youwill act as the midwife in charge of the antenatal and postnatal ward, leading and coordinating the day-to-day operational management of the clinical area. They will provide visible, supportive leadership to the midwifery team, ensuring safe staffing, effective communication, and the delivery of evidence-based care in line with NMC standards and Trust policies.
As part of this role, they will have the opportunity to further develop your leadership, management, and service improvement skills, contributing to the ongoing enhancement of maternity services within our Trust.
This is a permanent post, part time- 22.5 hours per week.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for providing a safe and supportive environment for women, partners and their families.
Provide continuity and stable leadership to the ward team, monitoring and maintaining standards and co-ordinating the delivery of care given by the multi-disciplinary team ensuring safe care is maintained.
Support and lead the ward team and enable midwives to function as practitioners in their own right.
Actively participate in the Trust-wide quality heatmap/accountablility framework and provide monthly information on pre-agreed key indicators relating to financial and human resources, infection control, record keeping and risk management.
Responsibility for ensuring the ward is adequately and appropriately staffed by drawing up off duty rotas on E-Roster and authorising any changes to these rotas.
Responsible for the ward medical and surgical resources ensuring adequate stock levels are set and maintained and that supplies are ordered within the allocated budget.
Possess excellent organisational and communication skills
Provide specialist advice to mothers, midwives and members of the multi-disciplinary team and will be required to liaise with other health professionals and outside agencies to ensure all care and social needs of mothers are met.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
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Job description Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered Midwife ENB997 or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification. Working towards Degree level Safeguarding trained to level 3 Willingness to undertake management qualification
Desirable
Registered Nurse Leadership qualification
Experience Essential
Proven post registration experiences as clinical midwife. Extensive antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal clinical practice. Evidence of advanced decision making skills. Previous ward management experience. Recent experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable
Experience of working as Band 7 midwife. Experience in report writing. Budget monitoring skills. Experience in conduction appraisals. Proven ability in duty rostering.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address Colchester Hospital
Turner Road
Colchester
CO4 5JL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)