Labour Ward Coordinator
| Posting date: | 15 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 December 2025 |
| Location: | Gorleston, NR31 6LA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9177-25-0479 |
Summary
Midwives working as a labour ward co-ordinator will be able to: 1. Antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal core proficiencies 1.1. Demonstrate advanced skills in areas such as, but not limited to: foetal surveillance; maternal care pathways; maternal and neonatal life support and assessment; management of clinical risk and escalation. 1.2. Draw upon experience and evidence-based skills to inform assessments to provide safe care. 2. Digital skills 2.1. Apply with confidence, and support others to use digital skills to ensure safe, timely and effective provision of care. 2.2. Critically examine patient records to identify risks that could impact care and support the team to undertake continual holistic risk assessments. 3. Technical skills 3.1. Use technical skills to operate, maintain and escalate faults in medical devices needed to provide safe and effective care. 3.2. Lead/support the team to identify appropriate local medical devices to support safe practice. Midwives working as a labour ward co-ordinator will be able to: 1. Critically reflect on own leadership style and how this impacts on the safety culture and performance of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) 2. Evaluate the impact of your behaviours as a leader on the experience and wellbeing of colleagues 3. Create a culture where psychological safety and quality improvement is achieved and maintained in a well led maternity service 4. Evaluate the impact of your behaviours as a leader on service user outcomes 5. Role model and foster a culture of continuous learning in others 6. Lead the resolution of challenging conversations with compassion, integrity, and confidence. Use evidence-based knowledge to critique the technical skills of all team members and manage any gaps that could impact safe service delivery Create a learning culture within the birthing environment so that members of the MDT can address gaps in practice that impacts safe service delivery Appraise and implement the principles of human factors when leading the MDT Exercise professional judgement and clinical credibility gained from a range of experience obtained within the birthing environment Evaluate their knowledge of policies, procedures and processes which influence decision-making and impact safe service delivery Critically reflect on individual preparedness for the demands of the role of and your impact on others Demonstrate knowledge of current national guidelines, key reports and objectives relating to the maternity landscape Midwives working as a labour ward co-ordinator will be able to: Prioritise confident, communication skills as a leader during an emergency, while maintaining a calm approach Be approachable, trustworthy, and professional to foster effective and kind communication with the team and service users Use emotional intelligence to recognise and manage with compassion non-verbal signs of distress in the team, yourself, and service users Compose high quality constructive feedback and use a kind and supportive manner Develop and maintain highly effective communication with people on complex issues Exhibit highly effective, inclusive, and timely communication skills with all members of the MDT Use language and resources to enable effective communication with service users Midwives working as a labour ward co-ordinator will be able to: 1. Critically appraise and implement quality improvement processes and evaluate the outcomes 2. Initiate and maintain a culture of continuous quality improvement across maternity services, to improve outcomes and experiences for all women and babies in response to health inequalities 3. Actively participate in and promote audit and research to improve quality and safety Midwives working as a labour ward co-ordinator will be able to: 1. Determine and evaluate available resources, to deliver safe and effective care during each shift