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Maternity Triage & Day Assessment Unit Ward Manager
Band 7
Main area Midwifery Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Job share
* Flexible working
* Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week Job ref 426-750-25TAM
Site The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Town King's Lynn Salary £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 12/05/2025 23:59
Job overview
To effectively manage and develop midwifery staff and services by providing professional and managerial leadership supporting the delivery of high quality, safe, cost-effective care to women, their families, and staff.
To inspire and facilitate the continuing development of Maternity Triage & day assessment unit by providing an open supportive and encouraging environment in which all staff feel valued and where best practice prospers.
Be part of Midwifery Management Team attending meetings, providing statistics, giving specialist advice as required, and part taking in the Manager of the day rota & on-call rota.
Act as a senior midwife within Maternity Inpatient Services supporting all areas if required, working 0.2 WTE clinically within Maternity core services, with managerial hours to be completed between Monday and Friday.
Main duties of the job
To provide significant knowledge, skills and expertise in antenatal and postnatal care & BSOTS to all staff, and be a point of contact for staff. To support the wider service as required.
Assumes responsibility for the management of both human and financial resources within Maternity Triage & Day assessment unit in an effective and efficient manner, liaising with Matron for Inpatient services and service managers as required. Holding 24-hour accountability for patient care within area of responsibility.
Demonstrates awareness of safeguarding adult and children, supporting the clinical team, escalating, and referring as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.
Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.
At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.
We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.
We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome.
We love working here and think you will too.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications Training & Professional Development
* Registered Midwife
* Degree / Diploma in Midwifery and evidence of Continued Professional Development
* Root cause analysis trained
Experience
* Evidence of clinical experience as a band 6 midwife
* Knowledge and experience of risk management including experience in incident investigations
* Experience of implementing change in service provision
* Experience of managing employee relations issues
* Experience of guideline development and review
Skills, Abilities & Knowledge
* Ability to practice clinically in all areas of a fully integrated maternity service promoting excellence in clinical practice
* High level decision making and organisational skills
* Ability to co-ordinate, influence and liaise within a multi-disciplinary team
* Ability to demonstrate evidence based practice and a woman centred approach to care provision
Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race ,ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values (attached).
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We offer our staff a wide range of benefits and support including:
* Flexible working opportunities
* Free counselling service
* Access to Wagestream - an app-based service that provides instant earned wage access*
* Support and advice for staff affected by either Peri-Menopause or Menopause
Opportunity to join our Staff Networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability and LGBTQ+ networks.
We are committed to being a menopause friendly employer.
Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.
Admin & Clerical staff may be required to act as Loggists for a major incident.
Everyone within the Trust has or will shortly need to have a minimum level of skill for computer literacy for their day-to day- work as we become more digitally mature. Therefore all staff should be computer literate.
Certificates of Sponsorship/Visa and Immigration
If you wish to apply for this vacancy and would require sponsorship to work in this role (including if you are already in a sponsored post and looking to change your employer), you can look at the government website https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/your-job and assess your circumstances against the criteria specified. This will determine your likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this post.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
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