Job overview
Midwifery Team Leader
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced midwife to join our community midwifery team as a team leader, for maternity cover.
We look after a diverse population where women/birthing people and their families are treated as individuals providing personalised care.
We are at the forefront of innovation, this includes partners staying overnight, enhanced recovery, and midwifery led induction of labour and normalising birth. We work closely alongside Health Visitors who are also part of our integrated service.
We provide a first class service, which is reflected in the number of positive compliments received from our satisfied service users.
We have a beautiful Birth Centre with four pools and our Labour Ward has two birthing pools and telemetry to encourage normality.
Our midwives work a varied range of shifts and hours in all areas of midwifery including days, nights and weekends as well as an on call basis to support women birthing at home.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will lead a team of midwives providing both continuity of carer and traditional community midwifery services in Haringey and Islington, based at the Whittington hospital. The post holder will be responsible for delivering high quality antenatal, intrapartum and post natal care for women and their families, whilst aiding the team to meet the national ambitions for continuity of carer as well as key performance indicators such as antenatal and newborn screening targets and booking in for maternity care by 9+3 weeks gestation. Please see the job description for full details of our expectations.
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details. The current vacancy is as team leader for a team of midwives, providing continuity of carer models of care as well as traditional antenatal/postnatal model of care.
Person specification
education/qualifications
Essential criteria
1. currently a registered midwife currently registered to practice
2. minimum of 3 years post preceptorship experience
3. mentorship qualification
knowledge & experience
Essential criteria
4. evidence of continuous personal and professional development
5. champion for midwifery led care
6. have good knowledge of changing trends in relation to midwifery and midwifery care provision
Skills & abilities
Essential criteria
7. experience and evidence of leadership, delegating work appropriately
8. evidence and experience in setting and monitoring standards of care
9. evidence of clinical skills such as cannulation and perineal suturing
10. can practice as an autonomous midwife in acute and primary care setting
11. can evidence ability to prioritise workload effectively
personal qualities
Essential criteria
12. excellent communication skills
13. evidence of effective interpersonal skills within difficult or challenging circumstances
14. demonstrate a sensitive approach to the needs of women and their families
15. evidence an understanding of the dynamics of working with a team
16. evidence of professional maturity and problem solving skills
17. evidence of reliability and good time management and punctuality
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
18. Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
19. Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
20. Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
21. Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
22. Participate in required training and supervision.
23. Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.