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Director of Midwifery
| Posting date: | 07 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | £88,168.00 to £101,677.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £88168.00 - £101677.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 October 2024 |
| Location: | Truro, TR1 3LJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9156-156-6668259 |
Summary
Responsible for the professional leadership across midwifery, including devising, implementing and reviewing strategies for the development of clinical practice, education, and management and quality issues. Acts as a strong patient advocate ensuring that a culture of continuous improvement and learning is supported in order to drive quality care delivery across maternity and neonates and facilitate the development of clinical practice, to ensure excellent care. Implementation of the corporate midwifery agenda; taking a specific strategic lead where requested on allocated cross Care Group and corporate roles. Responsible for ensuring that clinical initiatives and service developments become embedded practice and that staff have a clear understanding and opportunity to contribute to the change process. Lead, facilitate and contribute to the management and leadership of organisational flow including the utilisation of assessment areas to ensure patient safety. Proactive leadership which ensures the provision and development of high quality services ensuring that nursing and midwifery care offered is accessible and focused on and responsive to the needs of women and the wider family. Supports the Chief Nurse/Divisional Director of Nursing in implementing and monitoring clinical governance processes to deliver continuous quality improvements in line with the Trust Quality Framework. A highly visible leader, accessible and approachable to all staff, patients and public so that open and honest communication and feedback is received and effective assessments of care delivery can be undertaken.