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Job overview

There is an exciting opportunity for an experienced midwife, who is passionate about midwifery and leadership to join our team of highly skilled Senior Midwives at Maidstone Birth Centre. We are looking for a dynamic, motivated and forward thinking midwife to provide effective leadership as ward manager, be a role model of excellent midwifery practice and demonstrate a commitment in supporting colleagues to provide.

 Personalised care and a positive pregnancy and birth experience. She/he will have good communication and expert midwifery skills, committed to giving high-quality care, challenge practice and support individual focused care.

As the ward manager you will co-ordinate the day to day running of the Maidstone Birth centre, which provides care for low-risk women/birthing people in labour. This will include all out of hospital birthing environments and in the immediate post-natal period, as well as antenatal care and telephone advice.

There is a requirement to provide an on-call to support the management on call rota.

Main duties of the job

This role requires you to be the overall leader and work as part of a small team at a stand alone Birth Centre which provides care for approximately 500 families per year. This involves close relationships with community staff ensuring a safe provision of care. You will need to demonstrate good leadership skills and sound understanding of co-ordinating a stand alone birth centre. You will liaise with the senior management team on a daily basis.

Experience of working in a low risk midwifery community environment, is essential for this role. Additionally we are looking for someone who is highly skilled in the management of obstetric emergencies both in and out of the hospital environment. Previous experience at Band 7 level is  required for this role as it entails working independently from the main obstetric unit. 

Working for our organisation

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.

We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement

Please contact the Recruiting Manager for an informal discussion should you have any queries relating to the role for which you are applying. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted via an email as soon as possible after the closing date. Should you receive an invitation to attend interview, please confirm or decline your attendance. Interview slots will then be allocated on a first come first serve basis.

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