Job overview

Lead Our Maternity Team: Join the NCA's Community Midwifery Management Team

Are you a midwifery leader ready to make a lasting impact on women's healthcare in Oldham and Rochdale?

We're seeking a highly skilled and experienced Community Midwifery Manager to head our dedicated team, responsible for delivering exceptional antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care across multiple community settings, including our state-of-the-art birth centre.

As a Community Midwifery Manager with the NCA, you'll lead a talented team, driving our vision of excellent, evidence-based maternity care. With the opportunity to shape services and inspire others, you'll be at the forefront of improving the maternal and newborn experience in our community.

If you're a dynamic and forward-thinking leader with the passion and expertise to lead our team, we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be an inspirational leader, possessing exceptional communication and compassionate leadership skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure the high standard of midwifery care by leading a team that delivers holistic, evidence-based, and woman-centred care. Monitor daily staffing and skill mix to maintain equity of workload across the team.

• Involve women and their partners or relatives, where appropriate, in decisions regarding their care and well-being, as well as in service development initiatives.

• Allocate tasks and objectively assess team members’ performance against established criteria and competencies. Ensure that individual performance reviews and personal development plans are completed for each team member. Provide constructive feedback to foster continuous improvement.

• Promote the public health role of midwives while enhancing both personal and team knowledge.

• Manage changes in clinical practice and service delivery within maternity services to meet the individualised needs of women and their families.

• Lead and support the team through transitions with resilience, drive, and professional integrity.

• Collaborate closely with the Lead Midwife for Community Services and other managers across the wider organisation.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.