Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced B6 midwife to undertake a 4 month secondment in the post of Antenatal Clinic Manager. The successful candidate will take responsibility for both the Antenatal Clinic and our Antenatal Day Assessment Unit  (ADAU)

The successful candidate will be an experienced midwife, passionate about providing individualized care to women and families and promoting best practice in midwifery in the Antenatal Outpatient settings

The successful candidate will be supported to develop their leadership and management skills.

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities include:

- 24 hour responsibility for Antenatal clinic and ADAU

- Line management of a team of midwives , midwife sonographers and maternity support workers, including management of training & development and performance appraisal.

- Working with the wider education team / universities to provide a quality placement for student midwives.

- Rostering to ensure safe staffing alongside planning of annual and study leave

- Incident investigation and action planning

- Monitoring of local audits and assurances

- Asset management 

-Recruitment

- Management of local patient feedback 

- Dissemination and implementation of trust guidance and learning from incident review.

-Working closely with the consultant body to ensure seamless running of the Consultant antenatal clinics.

Working for our organisation

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow. 

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.  

Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.  

Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to “Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population.” It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.  

We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose.  When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.  

Multi-site working 

The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond". 

To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:

Against this context, although this post is hosted by Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, there may be an expectation to work flexibly across the four partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.