Community Midwifery Team leader inWakefield inWakefield PUBLISHED THU 17 OCT 2024

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals is looking for a Community Team Leader !

We are looking to recruit an experienced and dynamic midwife who has a wide range of midwifery experience and a passion for community midwifery care to join our team.

Approximately 5,400 women each year choose to birth at Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. We provide antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care across the Wakefield district and North Kirklees.

At Mid Yorkshire hospitals we are continuing to implement the National maternity Transformation Programme alongside our colleagues in the local maternity System (LMS) the Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) and other community partners.

The NHS plan also focuses on care quality and outcomes improvement which forms the drive for our local maternity service improvement strategy.

If you are an experienced Leader who would like to make a difference to our Maternity services, women and their families, then we would like to hear from you.

Join our team and you will have the opportunity to bring your wealth of knowledge and experience to our maternity service. We will provide educational opportunities which will enhance your leadership skills.

We pride ourselves on: The Mid Yorkshire's vision to provide high quality and safe Maternity services at home, in the community and in our hospitals, to improve the quality of lives for women and their families (Maternity Strategy 2020-2022)

2022 CQC maternity services rated GOOD

The post holder will work be responsible for leading and supporting the community midwifery team in providing high level, safe and compassionate antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care in the community setting. You will utilise your excellent clinical skills and knowledge to drive maternity transformation and to enable the service to meet the needs of the local population.

TheSuccessfulcandidate will need to be self-motivated and have experience with leadership and effective communication working alongside a wide multi-disciplinary team including partners within the primary and secondary care setting

As a leader you will be crucial to planning and development within your team and ensuring that patient and staff experience is incorporated into all service improvements.

You will lead on the development of standards and clinical guidelines to improve patient care and ensure practice is up-to date and evidence based

In return

A robust onboarding and induction programme

Full and part time options in a Trust working towards the principles of Flex for the Future

Access to support from our Professional Midwifery Advocacy team

Inclusive approach to ongoing career and development opportunities

If you are an experienced midwife with who would like to make a difference to our maternity services, women and their families, then we would like to hear from you.

Please contact Charlene Kent

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Has specialist knowledge which is relevant to the community environment.

Demonstrates strong leadership qualities.

Providing specialist advice to junior members of the team.

Empowering and encouraging and supporting junior midwives to exercise clinical decision making and accountability.

Exercises clinical judgement and have an awareness of all appropriate care pathways.

Be responsible for liaising with other Team Leaders for covering antenatal clinics and on-call periods during periods with high sickness levels.

To create and maintain a midwifery culture which is open to change, new ideas, concepts and innovations.

Responsibility for maintaining and improving the experience of women and families, and safeguarding high standards of care.

Maintain an environment in which excellence in clinical care can flourish and be measured.

To maintain a safe environment for staff, patients and visitors.

Maintain and enhance a culture conductive to learning, and the personal and professional safety, growth and development of all staff.

Perform annual appraisal of delegated staff as per Trust policy.

To communicate effectively with various individuals and groups.

Participates in the recruitment and retention of staff as delegated by the department manager.

Investigate incidents, either closing them or escalating to Risk management meeting.

To work with the community midwives to minimise complaints.

To work with the Human Resource Department to deal with sickness absence, grievance and disciplinary procedures.

To participate in the Midwifery on call rota.