Maternity Matron (Intrapartum) | Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 08 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | Whiston, L35 5DR |
| Company: | St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6209586/409-S5236736-G |
Summary
Due to retirement an exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, experienced and inspirational midwifery leader to join our team of supportive and dedicated Midwifery and Medical staff.
The successful applicant will have current responsibility for our Intrapartum areas which includes our Consultant led area, Midwifery led unit and our Maternity triage department and we are looking to recruit a passionate, highly motivated midwifery leader who will champion a high level of professional standards and excellence across our maternity services.
As a member of the team the successful candidate will play a key role in supporting the Head of Midwifery in ensuring an effective, robust and safe Midwifery Service and have leadership oversight of the maternity services offered by St Helens and Knowsley Trust. As such we are looking for a suitable candidate with demonstrable maternity experience and an understanding of the complexities of supporting care delivery within the current climate.
You must be able to demonstrate a recent track record of achievement in leading and developing innovative midwifery practice in an acute and community environment, improving quality as well as possessing a working knowledge of regulation, accreditation, governance and workforce.
As a matron you will be highly visible and will focus on improving the fundamental and essential aspects of care to women.
An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both Adults & Children is required for this post.
• Act as a positive role model through the provision of effective professional leadership and demonstration of competent, accountable clinical practice.
• Ensure that the environment meets appropriate standards for health care delivery and delivers best practice in infection control.
• To ensure the implementation of national, local and Trust standards of best practice and quality and monitor performance against these that informs the corporate performance programme.
• Provide day-to-day visible, accessible and leadership in clinical areas.
• Ensure the delivery of patient care is of the highest standard and those patients and their families are treated with dignity and respect.
• Actively support the Directorate in the provision of high quality, modern, dynamic and patient centred services.
• Be an integral member of the senior midwifery management team, providing midwifery advice, and contribute to embedding quality and safety processes into the maternity services culture.
• Provide support to patients and their relatives/carers.
The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.
From 1st July we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals.
The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.
Our Vision is to deliver 5 Star Patient Care:
• CARE that is evidence based, high quality and compassionate
• SAFETY that is of the highest standards
• COMMUNICATION that is open, inclusive and respectful
• SYSTEMS that are efficient, patient centred and reliable
• PATHWAYS that are best practice and embedded, but also respect the individual needs of patients
Our achievements include:
• Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
KEY DUTIES
Leadership & Consultancy
• Provide effective clinical and professional leadership acting as a role model for all staff within the maternity service at Whiston Hospital.
• Develop and support mechanisms to guide and empower all staff in developing and strengthening leadership skills and meeting the responsibilities of their role.
• Actively work to support and empower all staff to develop and utilise clinical leadership skills, audit skills, and risk reporting, ensuring they are supported in appropriate levels of authority to undertake their role effectively in an accountable manner.
• Ensure effective communication systems, written, verbal and the use of Information Technology is embedded in the maternity service.
• Liaise with all support services and departments to ensure they and the organisational cultures are meeting the needs of clients in the clinical areas.
• Facilitate and negotiate change and new ways of working where necessary to support new care delivery process within the directorate.
• Lead on a key area of midwifery policy or practice as part of a midwifery team as required by the findings of the regular audits of practice.
• Represent the department or directorate at professional and academic fora.
• Ensure that national guidance which as a minimum is required at external assessment is considered by the multidisciplinary team
• Engage in clinical effectiveness reviews to support the work of the department/care group in ensuring that the criteria from the maternity safety standards are implemented within the department/care group.
• Work in close collaboration with the multidisciplinary team to deliver a safe and effective service
Management
• Provide line management for the clinical/midwifery teams as required within the service.
• Facilitate the effective deployment and co-ordination and rotation of staff within the directorate. Advising on the day-to-day allocation of midwifery resources with other maternity matrons to ensure an effective service.
• Maintenance of midwifery establishments and implementation of changes following review.
• Ensure that there are effective systems and processes in place for monitoring and utilisation of bank and agency utilisation, monitoring quality and spend to ensure these meet the needs of the service.
• Monitor sickness and absence ensuring appropriate action is taken with the Trust’s policy and guidelines.
• To attend Senior Midwifery Meetings.
• To contribute to the strategic direction of the Trust through membership of corporate meetings, taking the lead as directed
• To contribute to budget setting and business planning decisions of the directorate ensuring that midwifery budgets are effectively managed contributing to the achievement of financial balance in the directorate.
• Implement annual, individual performance review and appraisal for all clinical midwifery staff responsible to this post-holder.
• Ensure that staff development enables career progression and succession planning.
• To contribute effectively to service developments both within the directorate and at strategic levels if required ensuring that current and planned services are properly co-ordinated.
• To support the Head of Midwifery in the development of workforce strategy and plans by regularly undertaking skill mix reviews to ensure that the midwifery resource is maximised to best effect
• To deputise for the Head of Midwifery as required.
• Implementation and use of electronic rostering tool.
• Ensure there is effective and appropriate utilisation of HR staff management policies to maintain and achieve a proactive approach to recruitment and retention.
• Ensure KPI’s and standards are met, improved, monitored and actions completed
• Advise on the purchase of equipment including prioritisation of equipment requirements within the department.
• Contribute to innovative solutions to workforce delivery and working in new ways to meet the needs of the client group.
• Contribute to and promote a culture that values all staff recognising and acknowledging achievement and success whilst positively addressing poor performance.
• Ensure all midwives comply with NMC regulations and work within their scope of practice.
• Validate changes in roles and practice ensuring changes are in line with key policy initiatives and care group business plans.
• Participate in the senior midwives bleep holder rota to be in charge and take the ‘helicopter view’ of the maternity servic
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• Provision of professional leadership, motivation and supervision to ensure high standards of patient care.
• Act as a role model that will involve a clinical commitment when required
• When on duty to attend and review staffing levels and relevant clinical concerns highlighted by shift leader.
• To ensure professional midwifery advice and support is provided using the expertise of other midwifery specialists where appropriate.
• To support all grades of staff but in particular the shift coordinators/ward managers in resolving clinical and operational issues.
• Facilitate and support shift coordinators/ward managers to develop effective working relationships with the multi-disciplinary team to enhance the care and management of patients.
• Ensure all investigations into complaints/litigation/adverse events are completed and within agreed time-scales.
• Maintain own clinical/professional competence and credibility. Utilise clinical sessions to role model standards of care and expected behaviour, to measure agreed standards of midwifery practice, and gain additional accessibility to both clients/families and members of staff.
• Provide a visible presence in clinical areas and be accessible to women/families and staff, ensuring all women and staff have the opportunity to seek information, help and support or to communicate problematic or celebratory issues.
• Work closely with the multidisciplinary maternity team to ensure robust audit, action planning and change management to minimise, strengthen measures to prevent and control riskEncourage an awareness of learning from incidents, claims and complaints
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES
• Work with the Human Resources & Organisational Development Department and the Senior Nurses for Practice Development to develop training programmes which ensure continual professional development.
• Work with ward/department managers and the Practice Development Midwife (PDM) to identify current and future training and development needs of the workforce.
• Ensure the clinical environment is conducive to teaching, education, training and development for all staff and students.
• Work with the wider matron team to ensure all staff are compliant with corporate and clinical mandatory training days including those elements identified in the training needs analysis
• Take responsibility for personal and professional development, participating in the Trust appraisal system.
• Contribute and participate in Trust wide professional development programmes.
• Ensure effective systems are in place to monitor and remind midwives regarding professional registration and revalidation.
• Develop and contribute to departmental teachings and education programs
RESEARCH & AUDIT
• Support the managers and teams to assess, monitor and evaluate Midwifery care provided through the use of standards and audit and that appropriate action has been taken when required.
• Support staff in identifying, applying and disseminating research findings.
• Contribute to clinical audit and research projects ensuring compliance with research governance.
• Ensure that wherever possible clinical practice is evidence based and auditable.
• Ensure that all actions identified as an outcome of audits are monitored implemented and embedded. Ensuring where appropriate evidence is available
KEY PROCESSES
• In collaboration with the maternity team ensure that key targets are achieved in line with local and national standards.
• Ensure that the quality of services delivered are part of the maternity service’s strategy to improving performance and the client experience.
• Assist the Head of Midwifery in the development of the strategic direction and vision for the service in line with corporate vision, objectives and nursing and midwifery strategy.
• Ensure integrated working across the full multidisciplinary team across agencies both internal and external to the organisation.
• Assist in the development and implementation of long term maternity service objectives through effective, affordable and achievable action plans.
• Contribute to sound financial management specifically through the management of temporary staffing and agency usage.
• Act in a manner to consistently support equality & diversity in all interactions
• To ensure that lessons learnt and changes to clinical practice from RCA’s Trust wide are communicated throughout the directorate and acted upon.
• Have a responsibility to ensure all information processed for patients and staff is kept confidential, accurate and in line with the data protection act 1998 and Caldecott policy
This advert closes on Monday 22 Apr 2024
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