Job overview

The Delivery Suite Coordinator is a senior clinical and operational role responsible for ensuring the safe, efficient, and effective running of the delivery suite. This role provides real-time oversight of patient flow, staffing, and escalation of clinical and operational risks, particularly during periods of high demand or out-of-hours.

Key responsibilities include:

• Coordinating staffing and workload to maintain safe patient care and compliance with regulatory standards.

• Supporting the clinical team in clinical decisions, helping ensure safe, timely, and effective care delivery

• Ensuring timely escalation of risks and incidents to maintain patient safety and operational efficiency.

• Monitoring and improving operational performance through effective communication, workflow management, and resource allocation.

• Acting as a senior point of contact for both clinical and non-clinical queries within the delivery suite.

This post is essential for maintaining service continuity, reducing avoidable costs, and ensuring compliance with national maternity safety standards. The role is funded for a 12-month secondment to backfill maternity leave.

The second role is for a 6 month fixed term contract. Please state in your application which role you are interested in or you will be considered for both.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties – Delivery Suite Coordinator (12-Month Secondment)

• Provide senior oversight of the delivery suite to ensure safe, efficient patient flow and staffing.

• Support the clinical team in timely and safe clinical decision-making.

• Monitor and escalate risks to maintain compliance with regulatory and safety standards.

• Improve operational efficiency and resource use, reducing delays, duplication, and avoidable costs.

• Act as senior point of contact for clinical and operational queries, facilitating effective communication across the team

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.