Job overview

Join our Dynamic Team as a Midwifery Leader

Are you a passionate and forward-thinking midwife looking to take your career to the next level? Do you thrive in a fastpaced, dynamic environment? We're seeking an exceptional leader to join our team at our busy tertiary level maternity unit, serving a diverse and vibrant community.

As a key member of our senior midwifery team, you'll have the opportunity to drive innovation and excellence in our intrapartum and triage services. You'll help shape the delivery of high-quality maternity care.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a person-centered approach to care
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team
• Utilise data-driven insights to inform services
• Foster a culture of learning and growth

What We Offer:

• Dynamic and supportive work environment
• Opportunities for professional development
• Make a real difference in lives

If you're a motivated leader with a passion for midwifery, we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking an experienced and dedicated leader to provide professional, clinical, and managerial oversight of our midwifery services. The successful candidate will ensure the delivery of high-quality, effective, and safe care within the available resources.

As a key member of the senior midwifery leadership team, you will hold specific responsibilities for the labour ward, maternity triage, and the maternity bleep holder team.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with the multidisciplinary team, including the directorate operations team and Lead Consultants for Labour Ward and Triage, to provide effective clinical leadership. Your responsibilities will encompass the establishment, monitoring, and maintenance of professional standards, particularly those related to conduct, clinical practice, and patient safety.

You will also play a pivotal role in fostering a culture within the maternity service that embraces and empowers innovation, creativity, and learning at both the team and departmental levels.

In addition, you will contribute to developing a service that values, respects, and enhances the diversity of the families we serve.

As a source of expert clinical knowledge for the labour ward and maternity triage teams, occasional clinical involvement may be required.

Your responsibilities will also include the line management of ward managers, labour ward coordinators, bleep holders, and specialists in midwifery.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.