Maternity Recovery Ward Manager | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,488 - £57,802 per annum incl. HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW10 9NH |
| Company: | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6305737/289-SC-2164 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Maternity Recovery (Simpson) Unit for a Maternity Recovery Band 7 Lead.
The post holder will be a clearly identifiable senior clinical staff member with recent Nursing or Midwifery experience within a post operative recovery or HDU setting. They will have significant clinical experience, provide sound clinical expertise to their team, and coordinate and deliver high quality care to our women and babies.
The post holder will be a clearly identifiable senior clinical staff member. They will have significant clinical experience, provide sound clinical expertise to their team, and coordinate and deliver high quality care. They will be a role model for expert clinical care, lead on specific projects and management functions as delegated by the Intrapartum Matron. They will role model the identified Trust values at all times.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection..
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
Leadership and management:
• To act as an effective role model and demonstrate effective organizational and leadership skills.
• To maintain a high profile in the clinical area as a senior presence.
• To ensure that optimal use is made of available resources to provide appropriate and effective cover over any 24 hour period.
• To reassess the staffing rotas in the light of unexpected absences and adjust accordingly to meet the needs of the service.
• Develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships with other professional groups, and staff generally within the Division and the Trust to ensure that a positive working environment is achieved.
• Perform line management duties for a designated group of staff.
• Coordinate the orientation of new and temporary staff.
• To ensure the implementation of Recovery Unit and Maternity Policies and Procedures, ensuring that all staff work within them. To be involved in writing of policies, procedures and guidelines for the Recovery Unit as required.
• To ensure that complaints and incidents are managed and responded to proactively. Investigate incidents and complaints and provide reports as required. Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate associated action plans in collaboration with the Intrapartum Matron.
• To ensure that annual staff appraisals of B5/6 Nurse and Maternity Support Workers are completed each year.
• To oversee equipment in the area and with due economy, requisition supplies, repairs and replacement of equipment.
• Participate in recruitment and selection of staff.
• Have a working knowledge of budget arrangements for area, focusing on cost effectiveness and quality, to ensure maximum use of resource
• Understand and manage local change with team members, including the embedding of new projects
• Support and promote equality, diversity and the rights of women, birthing people, the public and colleagues within the health care environment.
• To ensure that working conditions are safe in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act and ensure information relating to this is reviewed, updated and readily available to all staff. Assist with departmental risk assessment, COSHH and other health and safety issues and ensure safe practice with regard to manual handling, safer sharps, infection prevention and control etc.
• Lead on specific projects, as indicated and agreed by manager.
Professional
• To observe the rules and Code of Conduct as laid down by the NMC.
• To ensure that the highest possible quality of service is delivered within the Maternity Recovery HDU Unit, maintaining a high standard of care in accordance with current policies and procedures to facilitate an effective process for women and their babies.
• To monitor and maintain good standards of care within the Maternity Recovery HDU Unit and to implement recommendations from Government and Professional Bodies in relation to maternity care.
• To foster and develop a working environment within which Nurses and Midwives can work as practitioners, accountable for their practice and in accordance with NMC rules and Code of Practice.
• To have due regard for the needs of mothers, birthing people and their families recognising the demands placed upon professional colleagues in the pursuance of their duties and to assist them as required.
• To develop and monitor systems which ensure the smooth and safe running of the Maternity Recovery HDU Unit.
Clinical
• To undertake the day to day management of the admission and discharge of patients to and from the maternity recovery area, ensuring a safe and high standard of care for both mothers, birthing people and their babies who have post-operative, post anaesthetic and enhanced care requirements.
• Develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care, using a problem solving approach, ensuring that the needs of each individual woman are met.
• To maintain and develop her/his own clinical skills by ensuring that direct care is incorporated into their work schedule.
• Provide clinical support and guidance to staff as required, acting as a resource for clinical knowledge.
• The supervision and teaching of staff in the assessment and implementation of care.
• To ensure the smooth running of all pre-assessment clinics.
• Ensure all staff are up to date with the procedures to be followed in an emergency clinical situation and their attendance at mandatory update sessions.
• Ensure compliance and provide support with daily checking of emergency equipment in the Recovery Unit to ensure a high standard of compliance and preparedness.
• Ensure safe custody and administration of drugs in accordance with Trust policies and procedures and in liaison with the pharmacy team.
Education and Research
• Participate in the education of all learners within the area
• Actively support and assist in preceptorship and in pre-registration student support, supervision and guidance including mentorship where appropriate
• Identify and respond to learning needs for area and team.
• Develop and deliver or organise local training sessions.
• Participate in any local or related research projects, clinical trials
• Apply and encourage others to utilise evidence based practice and relevant research findings in
• Identify areas of nursing / midwifery research within their area that will be of benefit, and encourage and educate other staff to recognise the importance of research.
Communication
• Ensure all communication, which may be complex, contentious or sensitive, is undertaken in a responsive and inclusive manner, focusing on improvement and ways to move forward.
• Ensure all communication is presented appropriately to the different recipients, according to levels of understanding, type of communication being imparted and possible barriers such as language, culture, understanding or physical or mental health conditions.
• Maintain confidentiality at all times, working within the principles of Information Governance.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Jun 2024