Ward Manager - Senior Midwife

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced, dynamic and inspirational senior midwife to lead the Birthing Centre at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH).
You will need to be able to demonstrate the requisite level of competencies at band 7 and provide evidence of on-going professional development. Further education is encouraged, including support to attend relevant courses to maintain personal and professional development to meet service needs. We offer comprehensive in-house training packages as well as having strong links with local Universities.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the daily management of the Birthing Centre, including;
Providing leadership to the multidisciplinary team
Planning and implementation of flexible staff rosters and annual leave
Maintenance of adequate staff levels and skill mix
Environmental assessments
Encourage and support innovative practice and multidisciplinary teamwork
Lead in development of clinical audit and guidelines
Lead in incident investigation and care reviews
Development of staff
Monitoring of staff wellbeing at work
Budget management
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
To take responsibility for the efficient and safe management of Birthing Centre
To be responsible for midwifery care standards and to maintain high clinical standards
To provide senior midwife unit management cover
To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Midwives Rules and Standards.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which
(a) engages, enables and empowers others
(b) uses coaching
to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement
(c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries

Please refer the Job description for details