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Job summary

Main area
Midwifery
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent: Days, Nights, Weekends and Bank holidays
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Days, Nights, Weekends, Bank holidays)
Job ref
220-WHT-3575
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Town
Archway, London
Salary
£56,276 - £63,176 Per Annum Including HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
18/01/2026 23:59

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Whittington Health NHS Trust logo

Labour ward Coordinator/flow Coordinator/bleep holder

NHS AfC: Band 7

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.

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By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

 


 

Job overview

The post holder will provide clinical leadership, facilitate professional development and carry continuing overall responsibility for the management and co-ordination of a team of midwives, students and support workers of a designated clinical area.

The midwife will work as part of the multidisciplinary team, liaising with professionals who impact on the care and management of clients, creating and maintain a positive learning environment in order to maximise the full potential of staff and help achieve the national targets for maternity.

Main duties of the job

To provide women and babies with a high quality, safe service in a variety of practice settings within the Maternity Unit, throughout the antenatal. Intrapartum and postnatal periods that is effectively and efficiently within available resources, as well as contribute to the delivery of the organisation’s objectives.

The care will be evidence based and holistic in meeting women and birthing people’s individual needs and the midwife will be expected to work autonomously within the guidelines and sphere of professional practice.

The post holder is to ensure the provision of a consistently high level of clinical leadership across the maternity unit 24/7 and promote a unit-wide multidisciplinary team working philosophy.

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 see attached job description and person specification

It is anticipated that the post holder will have effective visionary leadership and efficient experience as would be necessary to underpin changing practice.  The post holder will be expected to rotate throughout the Maternity Unit and including night duty and on calls as deemed necessary to provide an integrated maternity service and ensure competence in all areas of midwifery practice.

The post holder will act as a host to women, birthing people and their families using the service and raise positively the profile of Whittington Health

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Midwife on the live NMC Register.
  • Diploma/Degree in Midwifery
  • Diploma/Degree in Midwifery
  • Professional Midwifery Advocate
  • Evidence of professional accountability via professional portfolio
Desirable criteria
  • Specialist clinical training
  • Master or Working towards

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Experience and evidence to be able to lead, manage and supervise staff, delegating work appropriately and develop a team and act as a role model
  • Experience and evidence to demonstrate ability to influence and manage change, including the promotion of evidence-based practice
  • Evidence and experience in setting and monitoring standards of care on a labour ward
  • Must be able to practice in all areas in accordance with the Midwives rules and code of conduct
  • Be able to practice as an autonomous midwife in the acute and primary care setting Able to prioritize workload appropriately
  • Excellent IT skills and a knowledge of Microsoft word, email, excel and PowerPoint

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant experience at a senior management/ clinical level 5 years
  • Experience in working in areas of all midwifery practice. Champion for midwifery led care .
  • Provide evidence of continuous personal and professional development .
  • Have sound knowledge of changing trends within Maternity Services
  • Be conversant with current professional issues in relation to midwifery and Key performance indicators
  • Comprehension of current midwifery practice Can demonstrate application and implementation of theory to practice . Experience of participating in clinical governance initiatives
  • Experience of change management
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working with service users Experience of undertaking CQC inspections

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Commitment to the organisation
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Demonstrate effective interpersonal and communication skills within difficult or challenging circumstances and able to deal with difficult people and management of HR issues
  • Demonstrate ability to work effectively and collaboratively as part of a multi -disciplinary team
  • Able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills
  • Demonstrates a sensitive approach to the needs of the women and their families
  • Demonstrates an understanding of the dynamics of working with a team
  • Self-motivated, enthusiastic, innovative, assertive
  • Problem solver, analytical approach

Other

Essential criteria
  • Good general health
  • Willing to work in all areas
  • 24 hour rotation including participating in on call Rota
  • Good sickness and absence records

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerDisability confident committed

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Arinola Erinle
Job title
Intrapartum Matron
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0207 288 3935
Additional information

Alicia St Louis - Head of Midwifery

Email: [email protected]

Contact: 0207 288 5684 or 07824864439