Job Overview Community Team Leader – Crystal Team The Crystal Team is delighted to invite applications for a Community Team Leader to join our specialist service. This is a full-time, permanent role with responsibility for overseeing a team of Band 6 midwives and maternity support workers, working in close collaboration with the Midwifery Matron to lead and manage the service effectively. The Crystal Team specialises in providing care for vulnerable women and families during pregnancy and the postnatal period, delivering compassionate, high-quality, and woman-centred care. We are looking for a passionate and motivated midwife with strong leadership skills, who is committed to promoting choice for women and delivering the best possible care experience. If you are enthusiastic about leading a dedicated team and making a meaningful difference for service users, we would welcome your application. Main duties of the job Recent community midwifery experience is essential for this role. You will be passionate about home birth and able to provide evidence that you actively promote and support safe home birth within your current practice. You’ll be an individual with excellent interpersonal and clinical skills, willing to embrace change, with particular skills around electronic patient record systems. You will be a registered midwife with a degree or relevant experience, plus evidence of on-going study. The post will include shift working and being available for on-call work. Working for our organisation Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too. We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users. Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents. Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria Registered Midwife Mentorship / PSPA / SLIP Evidence of CPD Desirable criteria Leadership / management training Undertaking Master study Skills & Knowledge Essential criteria Demonstrates excellent written and presentation skills Confident in teaching and assessing students Safeguarding level 3 Completed preceptorship Desirable criteria Able to demonstrate successful change management and innovation Experience Essential criteria Experience of clinical audit / quality issues within the healthcare setting Able to demonstrate awareness of research Evidence of successful MDT collaboration Demonstrate application of the child protection processes Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities. Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first. We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services. We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations. Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care. Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together. Apply online now