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Job summary

Main area
Midwifery
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (a mixture of days, nights, weekend and bank holidays. Expectation of 50% unsocial hours with availability of staff to utilise Team Roster.)
Job ref
319-6202220AZ
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
Town
Cramlington
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 pro rata per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/05/2024 23:59

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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Ward Manager

NHS AfC: Band 7

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced, dynamic and inspirational senior midwife to co-ordinate the acute NSECH Maternity site. This includes The Birthing Centre, Ward 16 and Pregnancy Assessment unit. You will liaise with the MDT for Theatres, Critical Care, Emergency Department and NEAS to support patient safety as well enact the OPEL Maternity Framework escalation as required. 

There are two posts available, one permanent and one secondment for maternity leave cover. 


You will need to be able to demonstrate the requisite level of competencies at band 7 and provide evidence of on-going professional development.  Further education is encouraged, including support to attend relevant courses to maintain personal and professional development to meet service needs. We offer comprehensive in-house training packages as well as having strong links with local Universities.

Main duties of the job

Labour ward co-ordinators (LWCs) are integral in setting the culture and leading safety standards within the birthing environment and for the wider maternity team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the shift management in an acute setting this will include:

  • Role model behaviours that are consistent with the NMC values and principles expected of a midwifery leader during all interactions with the MDT.
  • Determine and evaluate available resources, to deliver safe and effective care during each shift. 
  • Support and co-ordinate a wide range of staff including escalation through the OPEL Maternity Escalation as required. 
  • Use hot debriefs to create opportunities for immediate learning from emergencies
  • Manage skill mix of staff to ensure safe staffing levels are maintained. 
  • Manage and escalate sickness notification through  the use of electronic health rostering
  • Implement and lead changes based on quality improvement and change management processes.
  • Ensure compliance with governance processes, such as reporting incidents through Datix as well as having an understanding of NHS resolutions, MNSI and Ockenden. 
  • Deputising for the ward manager during leave or absence.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To take responsibility for the efficient and safe management of Birthing Centre 
  • To be responsible for midwifery care standards and to maintain high clinical standards
  • To provide senior midwife unit management cover
  • To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Midwives Rules and Standards.
  • To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which
  • (a) engages, enables and empowers others
  • (b) uses coaching 
    to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement
  • (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • 1st Level live NMC required Registered Midwife
  • PP126/127 or equivalent
  • D32/33 or equivalent
  • Registered Mentor
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership Course
  • Management Course
  • Diploma or Degree in Midwifery
  • ALSO Course
  • NLS Course

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Cat Abbott-Sharp
Job title
Matron
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0191 607 3053