Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 197-RF7452
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum plus HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Labour Ward Coordinator
Band 7
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
If you are looking to work in an award winning, well-supported, friendly, dynamic, culturally astute and inclusive environment that puts women / birthing people at the centre of a high standard of care where the latest CQC report that rates us again as good, maintaining our good rating since 2017 and has now awarded us outstanding for leadership and have significant post registration experience, come and join us.
We are a large Maternity unit in the South East serving a diverse local population delivering over 7000 babies a year. We are looking for dynamic experienced Midwives to join our Band 7 team of delivery suite senior Midwives on the QEW site. We currently have vacancies for substantive staff.
Working at Queen Elizabeth, you will co-ordinate the day to day running of our Consultant led unit. You will be a motivated, organised and enthusiastic midwife, with excellent communication skills which you will use to facilitate safe, high quality care for women and their families.
Your extensive clinical skills will be further adapted / utilised to support colleagues and students in their provision of safe effective care and in aiding them to develop their skills. Your knowledge and experience will be vital in this role interacting with risk, clinical audit and training.
Main duties of the job
As a Delivery suite Coordinator you will be a frontline leader with management responsibility for the core services provided in a hospital setting.
You will be responsible for the management of resources, audit and quality monitoring, data collection, clinical leadership and deployment of staff.
You will endeavour to create an environment where the patient is central to all decision making and the delivery of high quality, safe and compassionate care which remains the primary objective.
You will be an expert resource to the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that all staff work in a professional manner and all registered staff are working as accountable practitioners.
You will be expected to demonstrate effective clinical leadership and role modelling, be able to inspire, motivate and empower others. This will require you to be highly visible and have an accessible approach to women, their families and staff.
This is a senior midwifery role within the organisation and there is an expectation that you will fully participate in the clinical and professional leadership of the department.
Further duties of your line management role will include regular appraisals, managing sickness and absence and encouraging personal and professional development of those you line manage.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide leadership to midwifery and non-midwifery staff, ensuring effective management of the daily activity and flow within the maternity service. This will result in high standards of midwifery care, reduction in length of stay and will be responsive to individualised needs, thus increasing women and birthing people satisfaction.
You will be visible within the unit for staff and, by having a helicopter view of the unit be clinically aware of the needs of the service whilst ensuring staffing is deployed to ensure all areas are sufficiently covered to provide a high standard of care to women / birthing people.
You will have an overview of staff and staffing needs and liaise with the rota coordinator to ensure the unit complies with safe staffing requirements.
With the rota coordinator, you will ensure rotas are maintained and accurately reflect the availability of staff.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- 1st level Registered Midwife with current NMC Registration
- Degree level qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience.
- Evidence of on-going professional development in a nursing field of practice
- Practice Assessor /Sign off mentorship course
Desirable criteria
- Recognised leadership development training
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent Care of the Critically ill woman/birthing person course or working towards it
- Examination of the Newborn course or working towards it
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post qualification experience
- Significant post registration experience at Band 6, to include: o Supervisory experience and management of a nursing team o Teaching, mentoring and leadership experience within a clinical environment o Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team o Evidence of acting as a change agent and role model
- To have a broad experience of working at a senior clinical level and be able to demonstrate proven managerial and leadership skills.
- Evidence of involvement in the development of protocols and/or undertaking of clinical audit
- Significant specialist expertise underpinned by theory
Desirable criteria
- Experience of effectively managing rosters
- People management skills including appointing and managing staff
- Experience of managing timescales for a delegated piece of work/project
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understands the concepts of Clinical Governance and shared governance including evidence based practice and critical appraisal of research findings. •
- Demonstrates knowledge of effective risk management
- Knowledge of current NHS issues including performance targets, the modernisation agenda and patient experience
- Knowledge of professional issues including the NMC Code of Conduct, Compassion in Practice
- Understands and can demonstrate the principles of effective budgetary management
- Good knowledge of current Safeguarding practices
Desirable criteria
- Experience as a Clinical Supervisor Involvement in clinical audit and/or research
- Experience of SI process and implementation and monitoring of action plans
- Experience of managing budgets or responsibility for elements of resource and financial managment
Skills and Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills, both verbal and written even where there may be barriers to understanding
- Ability to read, understand and disseminate information effectively
- Computer literate
- Able to lead, empower, motivate others and influence innovative practice and service development
- Ability to act professionally and appropriately in all settings
- Ability to demonstrate assertiveness, tact and diplomacy
- Proven ability to take responsibility for the management of the working environment
- Able to anticipate, forward plan and formulate and verbalise views
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload
- Evidence of leadership skills
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Ability to use own initiative and meet deadlines
Desirable criteria
- Teaching and Assessing skills Research/Audit skills
- Demonstrate involvement in Clinical Supervision
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Understanding of role in relation to wider national regional and Trust pressures and Trust objectives
- Creative and innovative thinker, adaptable and flexible
- Able to deal with difficult and complex situations and people resistant to change.
- Able to foster positive relationships with co-workers and work across professional and organisational boundaries
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Gordon-Carr
- Job title
- Labour Ward Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02088366000
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