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There has never been a better time to join our Group in this senior clinical leadership position. We seek a credible, dynamic and innovative leader who will lead with excellence and confidence. As the Head of Midwifery, you will be fundamental in working with the Group Director of Midwifery to shape our services for women, birthing people, babies, and families and supporting our colleagues who deliver these services.
We are seeking an experienced, compassionate leader in maternity services who has experience of service delivery in this challenging but massively exciting service. You'll need to understand and be able to evidence the power of multidisciplinary and service user collaboration to ensure that the safety of the patients is at the heart of your decision making.
We are committed to providing personalised, kind, compassionate, safe maternity, and neonatal care in the region.
Responsible for operational direction and provision of management of Midwifery services in this senior leadership role. You will ensure delivery of consistently high standards of quality care, robust governance, patient experience and sustainability of service.
The post holder will:
- Exhibit leadership behaviours that demonstrate respect, resilience, trust, enthusiasm, and energy, positively impacting on the culture of the workforce leading to a safe and happy workplace.
- Provide professional, managerial, and clinical leadership across the midwifery-led neonatal and obstetric-led pathways.
- Lead with a strong operational presence, influencing to ensure the provision of a safe, effective, and evidence-based service to women and families.
- Be an integral member of the leadership team taking an active role in supporting the maternity service and the division in achieving agreed targets.
- Support the workforce strategy and take the lead on maternity recruitment and retention, ensuring the workforce maintains national standards for safe staffing
- Be a key influencer in progressing service developments which reflect professional, clinical, and corporate objectives.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join an ambitious and newly formed NHS Group, NHS Humber Health Partnership, the 12th largest acute and community provider in the NHS. With a budget of over £1.3 billion, Hull University Teaching Hospitals (HUTH) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLaG) (the Group) are united by the purpose to ensure better care is provided to a population of over 1.5 million people.
As part of this transition, we are seeking to appoint a Head of Midwifery for Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Our maternity and obstetric services provide care for women, birthing people and their babies and families in Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire and are based on three acute hospital sites: Hull Royal Infirmary, Diana Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby, and Scunthorpe General Hospital. Along with extensive community maternity services, we have an alongside midwife-led birth centre at Hull Royal Infirmary and a Home for Home Midwifery-Led Unit at Goole Hospital.
The services provide a comprehensive range of maternal, fetal and mental health services for the populations we serve. We are linked to the Humber and North Yorkshire Local Maternity and Neonatal System and work closely with our partners locally and regionally and are proud to have a strong connection to the Local Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership.
Maternity and Obstetric care is part of the Family Services Care Group. You will work closely with the Head of Midwifery for NLaG and the Group Director of Midwifery who is the professional and strategic lead for Maternity services and provides professional advice and support to the Group Chief Nurse, corporate nursing team and the Group Board on relevant matters.
You work with members of the senior midwifery leadership team to have an oversight of the operational management ,ensuring safe staffing and patient flow throughout the service and delivery of key quality performance, clinical governance and financial plans, ensuring national standards are adhered to and clinical practice is in line with national evidence best practice.
In conjunction with the Group Director of Midwifery you will provide professional leadership on all matters pertaining to Midwifery, providing professional advice on the development of community and hospital based maternity services.
Advise on quality and clinical governance issues for the service, and implement policies designed to achieve quality in healthcare including infection control, safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and equality and diversity.
Proactively work with the Matrons and Midwifery senior leadership Team to ensure they are fully aware of current practice initiatives, priorities and challenges. You will also have effective feedback mechanism to communicate Trust wide issues to midwives, nurses and support staff.
There has never been a better time to join our Group in this senior clinical leadership position. We seek a credible, dynamic and innovative leader who will lead with excellence and confidence. As the Head of Midwifery, you will be fundamental in working with the Group Director of Midwifery to shape our services for women, birthing people, babies, and families and supporting our colleagues who deliver these services.
We are seeking an experienced, compassionate leader in maternity services who has experience of service delivery in this challenging but massively exciting service. You'll need to understand and be able to evidence the power of multidisciplinary and service user collaboration to ensure that the safety of the patients is at the heart of your decision making.
We are committed to providing personalised, kind, compassionate, safe maternity, and neonatal care in the region.
Responsible for operational direction and provision of management of Midwifery services in this senior leadership role. You will ensure delivery of consistently high standards of quality care, robust governance, patient experience and sustainability of service.
The post holder will:
- Exhibit leadership behaviours that demonstrate respect, resilience, trust, enthusiasm, and energy, positively impacting on the culture of the workforce leading to a safe and happy workplace.
- Provide professional, managerial, and clinical leadership across the midwifery-led neonatal and obstetric-led pathways.
- Lead with a strong operational presence, influencing to ensure the provision of a safe, effective, and evidence-based service to women and families.
- Be an integral member of the leadership team taking an active role in supporting the maternity service and the division in achieving agreed targets.
- Support the workforce strategy and take the lead on maternity recruitment and retention, ensuring the workforce maintains national standards for safe staffing
- Be a key influencer in progressing service developments which reflect professional, clinical, and corporate objectives.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join an ambitious and newly formed NHS Group, NHS Humber Health Partnership, the 12th largest acute and community provider in the NHS. With a budget of over £1.3 billion, Hull University Teaching Hospitals (HUTH) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLaG) (the Group) are united by the purpose to ensure better care is provided to a population of over 1.5 million people.
As part of this transition, we are seeking to appoint a Head of Midwifery for Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Our maternity and obstetric services provide care for women, birthing people and their babies and families in Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire and are based on three acute hospital sites: Hull Royal Infirmary, Diana Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby, and Scunthorpe General Hospital. Along with extensive community maternity services, we have an alongside midwife-led birth centre at Hull Royal Infirmary and a Home for Home Midwifery-Led Unit at Goole Hospital.
The services provide a comprehensive range of maternal, fetal and mental health services for the populations we serve. We are linked to the Humber and North Yorkshire Local Maternity and Neonatal System and work closely with our partners locally and regionally and are proud to have a strong connection to the Local Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership.
Maternity and Obstetric care is part of the Family Services Care Group. You will work closely with the Head of Midwifery for NLaG and the Group Director of Midwifery who is the professional and strategic lead for Maternity services and provides professional advice and support to the Group Chief Nurse, corporate nursing team and the Group Board on relevant matters.
You work with members of the senior midwifery leadership team to have an oversight of the operational management ,ensuring safe staffing and patient flow throughout the service and delivery of key quality performance, clinical governance and financial plans, ensuring national standards are adhered to and clinical practice is in line with national evidence best practice.
In conjunction with the Group Director of Midwifery you will provide professional leadership on all matters pertaining to Midwifery, providing professional advice on the development of community and hospital based maternity services.
Advise on quality and clinical governance issues for the service, and implement policies designed to achieve quality in healthcare including infection control, safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and equality and diversity.
Proactively work with the Matrons and Midwifery senior leadership Team to ensure they are fully aware of current practice initiatives, priorities and challenges. You will also have effective feedback mechanism to communicate Trust wide issues to midwives, nurses and support staff.
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