The role of Senior Midwife in Ward 314/315 offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced midwife to join a dynamic team at the Royal Derby Hospital. The position focuses on managing a 61-bed mixed antenatal and postnatal maternity ward and developing managerial skills with the support of the wider Management Team. The successful candidate will provide leadership, motivation, and expert clinical advice to midwives and support staff, ensuring safe, women-centered care across the maternity pathway.
Key responsibilities include:
- Overseeing care quality for women, babies, and families.
- Implementing a transitional care area to enhance services.
- Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams for complex cases.
- Promoting high-quality, effective, and compassionate midwifery care.
Candidates should demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, a passion for midwifery, and the ability to lead and support a busy team. Applications close on December 4, 2024, with interviews scheduled for December 18, 2024.
Are you an experienced midwife motivated and ready for your next development opportunity. If so, there has never been a more exciting time to join the Senior Midwifery team and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a forward thinking, dynamic and pro-active Midwifery Ward Manager on Ward 314/315 - Maternity Ward on the Royal Derby Hospital site.
We are a a large progressive maternity service which embraces innovation and strives to deliver exceptional care together in partnership with women, families and external stakeholders. This is a great opportunity to develop managerial skills with the support of the wider Management Team .
You must have a passion for providing excellent midwifery care and can provide leadership and motivation for a busy team of Midwives and Support Workers. The successful candidate will work alongside the existing Senior Midwife, to manage a 61 bedded mixed antenatal and postnatal ward.
You must be able to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills to maintain an effective and coordinated approach to ward management by both Senior Midwives. The successful candidate will have an individual portfolio with an initial remit for postnatal care. They will have an exciting opportunity to develop the ward area with the implementation of a transitional care area to improve the services for the women and their babies.
As a senior midwife you will take overall responsibility and accountability in ensuring women, babies and families receive safe, clinically effective, women centred care across the whole maternity care pathway. You will lead by example, offer expert midwifery clinical advice, operationally support and manage teams and services ensuring the delivery of high quality,effective and compassionate midwifery care.
You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver care to women and babies within acute clinical environments whose needs are complex. You will work flexibly across the service in supporting the delivery of midwifery care, using a range of service models, including continuity of carer.
Senior midwives provide expert clinical and professional midwifery leadership and are accountable for the women, babies, public and staff experience. This will be in line with local, Trust wide and national policies, procedures, values and behaviours.
Closing date of applications:4 December 2024
Interview date: 18 December 2024
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