Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 337-NP-6184DG-C
- Employer
- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northwick Park/Ealing/Central Middlesex hospitals
- Town
- Harrow
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 per anum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Midwifery Site Coordinator/Bleep Holder
Band 7
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us#WeAreLNWH
Find out more about Our HEART values
Find out more about our Trust Staff Benefits
Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy
We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.
- H onesty
- E quity
- A ccountability
- R espect
- T eamwork
These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The post holder will utilise well developed leadership skills and specialist midwifery knowledge to:
1. Provide management and leadership throughout the 24 hours period, co-ordination of the shift and managing the service out of hours
2. Maintain adequate staffing levels, through deployment of staff
3. Will be responsible for the efficient and effective management of the pregnant woman’s journey through maternity services
4. Support staff to provide all aspects of clinical midwifery care, with a focus on promoting positive outcomes for mother and baby, and the wider family
Main duties of the job
- Work autonomously as a clinical midwife, and as part of the wider team
- Provide highly specialist knowledge and clinical support to multi-disciplinary colleagues in relation to all aspects of midwifery service provision
- Actively promote physiological childbirth through own practice and influencing others and act as a role model
- Through direct clinical care and influencing/leadership skills with other practitioners and supervision of junior staff, empower women to make informed decisions about their care
- Utilise highly developed communication skills which includes receiving and delivering complex and emotive information which may challenge practice
- Support the review and potential implementation of NICE guidance, and other relevant policy directives
- Support the development of maternity standards through participation and review of local guidelines using national guidance
- Signpost and make appropriate referrals for specialist information / support for vulnerable families, ensuring the Trust safeguarding policy is adhered to
- Knowledge of clinical governance and Risk management and participate in the risk management process
- Address practice deficits and provide constructive feedback to junior staff
- Ensure that MAST is up to date
Working for our organisation
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Evidence of continual professional development
- Actively maintain NMC Reg.
- Degree or evidence of level 3 study or diploma
Desirable criteria
- Car driver
- Management qualaties
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Rotational midwifery experience
- Act as mentor/assessor
- Knowledge of safeguarding
- MSSP/997/998
- Experience of taking charge
- 12 months rotational Midwifery experience
Skills, Abilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Teaching skills
- High standards of clinical performance
- Ability to manage a department and ward
- Leadership and motivational skills
- Interest in taking midwifery practice forward
- Adaptable, flexible, non-judgmental and reliable
- Team leader with critical and analytical skill
- Able to work well in stressful situations
- Highly developed communication skills and dealing with complex situations
- People management
- Demonstrable leadership potential
- Able to scrub for C-sections
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Caroline Macrae
- Job title
- Head of Midwifery & Gynaecology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8869 2885
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