Band 7 Birth Centre Coordinator | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 01 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,178 - £55,492 per annum including HCAS (pro rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 31 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, N18 1QX |
| Company: | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6277903/393-NMUH-1050-C |
Summary
Are you a midwife who is passionate about midwifery led care? An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife to join the Maternity Team in North Middlesex University Hospital. We are looking for a dynamic midwife to co-ordinate and lead shifts on our Midwifery Lead Unit, providing high standard women-centred care.
At North Middlesex we have a brand new, well equipped Maternity Unit which offers care to women from Enfield and Haringey who come from a diverse range of backgrounds. We care for many women with complex needs which creates a challenging environment and provides a great opportunity for learning and development within a supportive and learning-focused team.
The post holder has responsibility for the management and co-ordination of a midwifery team / clinical and specialist area. This includes the deployment, supervision and teaching of junior midwives and Doctors and / or students.
The overall objective of the post holder is to work as a clinical and managerial leader taking responsibility for the co-ordination of a team of midwives in clinical area within the hospital, women with both low and high risk providing antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care. This includes homebirth services and midwifery led care services.
The post holder, in conjunction with the Clinical Midwifery Manager / Modern Matron, is responsible for leading change in clinical practice, providing high quality twenty four hour midwifery care within available resources and enacting the maternity unit’s risk management policy, facilitating the implementation of Clinical Governance within the maternity unit and in the community.
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust serves the boroughs of Enfield, Haringey and draws patients from Barnet and Waltham Forest and beyond, this is a catchment area of around one million residents and covers a highly diverse population with affluent wards as well as areas of complex deprivation and serious health need.
The maternity unit opened in November 2013 has some of the best facilities in the UK including:
• a new modern eight-bed, midwife-led birth centre with four birthing pools
• a 14-bed consultant-led unit with senior obstetric cover
• two dedicated operating theatres with recovery suites and high dependency care facilities
• a modern neonatal unit with 28 neonatal cots
• a modern maternity day unit
• a dedicated 24/7 maternity triage area
• a spacious outpatient area for antenatal gynaecological and scanning appointments
• 31 bedded ward for inpatient antenatal and postnatal mothers and babies.
We believe you will find the North Middlesex an extremely rewarding place to work. We have a great track record in investing in training and development for our staff so that they can meet their full potential and provide the very best possible care to our women and their families.
An informal discussion and an arranged visit are strongly recommended. Please contact: Delivery Suite & Triage and Birth Centre Matron –Aileen Liddell on 07704074160 email: aileen.liddell@nhs.net
MANAGEMENT
• To maintain good rapport with women users and visitors within the service.
• To exercise leadership and co-ordinate women centred care and activities within her / his area of responsibility, employing a pro-active and dynamic approach to management.
• To supervise junior member of staff and continually assess the care given to ensure that it is appropriate, and delegate appropriately to them taking into consideration their level of experience / developmental needs.
• Development of operational policy for team / clinical area within the hospital environment.
• To ensure that optimal use is made of available resources to provide appropriate cover over 24 hour period.
• To review the staffing levels in the light of unexpected absences, to adjust the off duty rota accordingly to meet service needs in order to provide safe and effective quality care. When it appears that safe care cannot be maintained, to inform the Clinical Midwifery Manager / Modern Matron & Supervisor of Midwives.
• To implement agreed changes according to the service needs.
• To set, implement and monitor the maintenance of standards and quality care, and evaluating standards of care.
• To act up for the Clinical Midwifery Manager / Modern Matron as required.
• To ensure all staff / team members complete financial / mileage claim forms and monthly activity forms accurately and promptly together with extra duty payment and their holiday/study leave planner card.
• To undertake annual development reviews and monitor the professional development plan of allocated band 6 midwives and other junior staff and to ensure they are in turn developed to undertake similar assessment of junior staff.
• To participate in the selection of new staff and arrange and develop orientation programmes for new member of staff, in order to familiarise them with the organisational and practice demands of the unit or community.
• To monitor sickness and absence of staff members, ensuring completion of appropriate records in line with the Trust’s Management Absence Policy.
• To ensure that all equipment is checked daily and maintained according to manufacturer’s specification.
• To ensure all staff / team members are competent in accessing electronic records.
• The professional responsibility of the Band 7 midwife may on occasion necessitate the continued involvement in midwifery care in excess of normal contracted hours.
• To ensure production of an off duty rota enabling staff representation at key Divisional meetings.
• To ensure all policies and protocols are adhered to and participate in annual review of these.
• To represent the Unit at various meetings, for example Joint / Labour Ward Forums and disseminate information regarding new protocols / service changes.
• Band 7 Employees may be required to work in all maternity areas to cover the needs of the service.
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY:
• Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience
• Afford positive leadership, continuous support, advice and guidance to band
• Midwives and junior staff within the maternity unit / community over the 24 hour period.
• To promote team building and maintain cohesion where appropriate within the maternity unit / community. To promote and support and maintain autonomous care.
• To ensure that care is given in line with agreed local policies and with due regard to the Midwives Rules, Code of Practice Scope of Professional Practice and Code of Conduct and other guidelines within the NMC Framework.
• To set a good example with regard to record keeping, ensuring midwives understand their accountability for record keeping in line with Rule 42 (Midwives Rules and Code of Practice).
• To participate in audit and research activity within the Department.
• To develop our practice in line with ongoing recommendations from NICE, CEMD etc.
• Maintain and promote the skills of homebirths and waterbirths.
• To work within your professional Code of Conduct / Practice as stipulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council. To work within the Scope of Professional Practice and all Trust guidelines.
• Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulates, adjusts plans or strategies.
• Develops plans to implement changes in all areas of midwifery practice.
COMMUNICATION
• To provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information. Communicates complex and highly sensitive midwifery information requiring persuasive skills tact and empathy.
• To implement team philosophy of care and to create and maintain an effective communication system between all staff working in the maternity services to ensure a positive working environment is fostered.
• To be responsible for liaison with the Modern Matron / Clinical Midwifery Manager when agreed midwifery care cannot be maintained and to promptly report any problems within the maternity unit or in the community to consultant on-call, Supervisor on-call and Site Manager.
• To have regular, effective communication with the Modern Matron relating to management in the unit/community and its development.
• To liaise with all staff / midwives, ensuring good communication and optimal care for all women on the ward or in the community and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• To participate in the usage of language line and interpreters in order to ensure effective communication with women of various languages.
• To liaise with Primary Care Trust, local community groups and local GPs in the provision of maternity services i.e. social workers, health visitors..
• To promote user involvement in the provision of maternity services.
• Participate in the Unit’s pro-active approach to Clinical Governance. Assist in the formulation of protocols and ensure all staff are aware and implementing the evidence based protocols agreed for the directorate.
EDUCATION
• To monitor the developmental needs of less experienced staff / midwives within the maternity unit in order to provide supervision and facilitate opportunities for educational development practically / theoretically.
• Liaise with CPF and Midwifery Education links, to be responsible for ensuring that student midwives needs are addressed.
• To provide parent education classes, and coordinates the delivery of classes for women accessing services.
• To provide a mentor / support system for all students, ensuring that learning opportunities are identified and monitored.
• Ensuring that health and safety requirements are maintained in accordance with Trust Policy.
• Coordinates and implements research development activities as job requires.
This advert closes on Wednesday 15 May 2024
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