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•    Demonstrate positive and supportive leadership and motivational skills in the coordination of staff as well as detailed knowledge of midwifery and contemporary maternity care.
•    Develop and maintain a departmental culture which promotes an open and honest approach to professional decision making and problem solving.
•    Report ward activity to the Operational Bleepholder in a timely way and use a collaborative approach to escalation.
•    Lead specific delegated projects to improve the experience of women and their families.
•    Promote and maintain organisational and professional standards, ensuring that Trust and Directorate Policies and Guidelines are available, implemented and followed.
•    On a daily basis via their leadership role, employ professional behaviour that encourages and coaches their midwives to challenge their current competencies, whilst seeking opportunities to expand their roles.
•    Influence and nurture positive attitudes and behaviours within the ward area and wider multidisciplinary team.
•    Demonstrate and promote excellent interpersonal skills promoting quality written, verbal and nonverbal communication styles.
•    Ensure adequate staffing forward area, participate in monthly off duty for staff and identify and authorise bank shifts in the absence of the labour ward sister and within allocated budget.
•    Ensure staff are managed in line with current Trust HR policies and processes including appraisal.
•    Facilitate Preceptorship and Mentorship programmes within the clinical settings by collaborative working with the Practice Development midwives and the wider multi-disciplinary team including the University of Northampton.
•    Role model for midwifery, providing midwifery care in accordance with the NMC Midwives rules and codes of practice.
•    Lead specific delegated projects relating to the role. 
•    Manage the ward areas compliance with internal and external health care standards as reflected in the Trust priorities and Directorate objectives; be able to offer assurance through the Governance framework. 
•    Undertake the investigation of incidents including complaints within the ward area and feedback to staff to ensure lessons are learnt. 

Clinical Care Responsibilities:
•    Promote awareness of Safeguarding issues, implementing the Trust Safeguarding policy
•    Act as a source of expert clinical and professional advice and support to colleagues in their care of women and their families
•    Liaise and work together with Obstetricians to ensure the provision of high-quality women centred care – ensuring the smooth running of labour ward.
•    Take action to ensure that all clinical risks and complaints are identified, reported within the clinical risk reporting framework and monitor outcomes, which include the investigation of incidents and complaints within the ward area and feedback to staff to ensure lessons are learnt.
•    Undertake relevant clinical practices in accordance with the Scope of Professional Practice
•    Proactively contribute to the development of care pathways and guidelines within the maternity service
•    Take all possible action to minimise clinical risk to women and their babies, utilising all available resources.
•    Keep contemporaneous records of the woman and her baby and influence and develop recordkeeping skills amongst midwives and the wider multidisciplinary team
•    Act as an advocate for women, carers and staff to ensure their views are represented at all levels
•    Support with Infection Control / quality audits for the Labour Ward and report monthly to Intrapartum Matron via the Labour Ward Manager
•    As part of your development, assist on specified and agreed directorate and Trust wide Nurse/Midwife Development Projects.

Patient Experience and Safety:
•    Be ‘user-aware’ and deal at all times appropriately, i.e. professionally and politely, with all ‘users’ whether women, their relatives, carers, other members of staff or the general public, and ensure this is engendered within areas of responsibility
•    Liaise with senior/managerial staff to bring to their attention any problems identified.
•    Promote a blame free culture in reporting incidents and where appropriate initiating a local investigation in a timely manner.

Financial & Physical Resources:
•    Ensure effective use of resources.
•    Ensure all equipment is in working order and undertake risk assessments as necessary; highlight adverse risks to the Labour Ward manager and Intrapartum Matron for escalation and inclusion as necessary in the Directorate Risk Register

Information Resources:
•    Able to input information and have a working knowledge of the hospital information systems.
•    Adhere to Trust information governance policies.

Research & Development:
•    Lead designated audit projects against midwifery standards of care.
•    Assess effectiveness of practice against determined midwifery standards of care.
•    Involvement in clinical audit and evaluation of practice within the clinical area.
•    Demonstrate an ability to critically appraise research findings.
•    Contribute ideas and undertake monitoring with regards to quality of women-centred care.

Personal Skills
•    Maintain personal CPD and Revalidation requirement.
•    Take on delegated responsibilities conducive to service need and personal development.
•    Participate in an annual individual performance process where objectives will be agreed, performance monitored, and personal development needs discussed.
•    Maintain an awareness of issues relating to midwifery on the national and local agenda.
•    Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
•    Co-ordinate the responsibilities, capabilities, and workload of team members