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Maternal Medicine Continuity Team Leader | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 14 Mawrth 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £54,320 - £60,981 per annum incl. HCAS |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 13 Ebrill 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, SW10 9NH |
| Cwmni: | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7080895/289-SC-2338-A |
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The Maternal Medicine Continuity Team Leader is a senior role that combines clinical expertise, leadership, and coordination skills to provide high-quality, woman-centred care to pregnant individuals with complex medical conditions. This position involves managing a team of midwives delivering continuity of care across the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods, ensuring that care is safe, evidence-based, and tailored to meet the unique needs of each individual.
Lead a team of midwives in delivering holistic care to women with medical complexities, ensuring adherence to best practices and guidelines.
Provide consistent, personalized care throughout the pregnancy journey, fostering strong relationships and improving maternal and neonatal outcomes.
Collaborate with obstetricians, physicians, and multidisciplinary teams to manage care plans for patients with complex health needs.
Supervise and mentor midwifery staff, promoting professional development and fostering a supportive team environment.
Monitor clinical outcomes and implement improvement initiatives to enhance the quality and safety of care.
Provide education to patients and families about their conditions and advocate for their needs within the healthcare system.
Contribute to service planning, manage team schedules, and ensure compliance with organizational policies and regulations.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of England's top-performing and safest trusts. We operate two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital—along with award-winning clinics across North West London.
Our nearly 7,500 staff care for a diverse population of 1.5 million, providing full clinical services, including maternity, A&E, and children’s services, plus specialist HIV and sexual health clinics. The Care Quality Commission rates us 'Good' in safety, effectiveness, care, and responsiveness, and 'Outstanding' in leadership and resource use.
We continually invest in our facilities, including a £30m expansion of critical care at Chelsea and Westminster and an £80m Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Middlesex.
We are committed to equal opportunities and believe that diversity drives innovation and excellence. As part of our dedication to equity, we actively welcome applications from individuals from the global majority, veterans and underrepresented communities. We value the unique perspectives and experiences that diverse teams bring and are committed to creating an environment where all voices are heard, respected, and empowered to succeed."
If you haven’t heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, your application was likely unsuccessful. Employment is subject to a six-month probationary period.
Some roles may require weekend shifts at multiple sites.
Women Centred Care
· As a continuity midwife you will be; planning and implementing individualised midwifery led care in partnership with the woman and the multidisciplinary team. Using continual assessment and analysis you will provide continuity of carer throughout the woman’s pregnancy, birth and postnatal period to ensure her medical, psychological and social needs are assessed and holistically cared for. As a continuity midwife you will be working alongside multi professional teams providing the most appropriate care for women whilst breaking down barriers that can inhibit women with medically complex lives accessing high quality maternitycare.
· Provide high quality, evidence-based care and advice to women throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods from within the hospitalsite.
· Provide continuity of care and carer in combination with emotional and psychological support during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods from within the hospitalsite.
· Liaise appropriately with services to ensure safe and effective care is provided to women at the right place, and at the right time. Act as an advocate for women, whilst safeguarding her and her wider family and social group whereappropriate.
· Have an in depth understanding of barriers which may impact or inhibit women from accessing timely and regular antenatal care. Act as a care navigator to ensure timely access to the appropriate pathway isachieved.
· Have sound knowledge of both uncomplicated and complex pathways, physiological birth initiatives, safeguarding issues and theirmanagement.
· Advocate for women and support them in their choices surrounding pregnancy and birth, whilst empowering them and promoting birth as a normal, physiologicalprocess.
· Provide evidence-based education to women and the facilitate Parent Education initiatives.
· Provide and perform accurate assessments and procedures during antenatal appointments, labour care (including supporting water birth, perineal suturing, cannulation and intravenous administration of drugs) and in the postnatalperiod.
· Support women’s choices regarding feeding their infant, whilst encouraging and promoting UNICEF Baby FriendlyInitiatives. Administer medications under the scope of Midwifery Exemptions/Patient Group Directives when required orappropriate.
See attached detailed job description for full information
This advert closes on Thursday 27 Mar 2025