Skills

Leadership Risk Management Recruitment Artificial Intelligence

Job Specifications

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Job Overview

We're looking for a motivated registered midwife to join our Community Team, working alongside our other Team Leaders the individual will support our established community midwifery team.

This postholder will provide the clinical and managerial leadership with the Matron taking responsibility for providing a clear focus for the profession and effective clinical leadership and accountability for the service.

Are You

Adaptable and flexible?
Motivated, hardworking, and great at communicating enabling the ability to work well in our multidisciplinary team?
Able to use your own initiative taking the lead in caring for women and their babies, and can identify when care needs to be escalated?
Able to develop your clinical skills and participate in continuing your professional development?
Able to drive or have access to a car?

If the answer to these are yes, then apply now!

Main duties of the job

Working in collaboration with the Matron and Specialty team the individual will be expected to:

Participate in activity with the Specialist team to manage and develop the service in line with local and national requirements ensuring the delivery of performance targets
Line manage a team of staff working within designated clinical area
Work closely with Matron to ensure the efficient and effective running of area of responsibility
Have overall responsibility for ensuring their clinical area is safe
Deputise for the Matron and form part of the Directorate senior team
Contribute to the development of patient-centred services;
Be responsible for successful attainment of Trust and National quality and safety objectives within area of responsibility
Provide expert clinical advice and care within designated area of responsibility

Working for our organisation

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We are an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full overview of the Job Description, please refer to the PDF Job Description attached as an additional document to this advert.

Leadership

The post holder will have continuing responsibility for leadership, supervision and management of midwives or nurses, students and clinical support workers ensuring delivery of a professional, efficient and cost-effective service, in the absence of the Matron
To maintain a high standard of evidence-based care for women and their families through:

Development of evidence-based guidelines

Keeping up to date with developments in professional practice and share with staff.

Membership of the appropriate Clinical Teams forums for development of professional guidelines, best practice and contribution to the Directorate Risk Management Strategy.

To lead on the recruitment and selection of midwifery and nursing staff for the Directorate To assist in the management of the induction and orientation of new staff to the Directorate To assist in the manageme

About the Company

As one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, we serve a local population of around 500,000 people across South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and North Bristol. We are a centre of excellence in a wide range of specialties, including orthopedics, neurosciences, renal, transplant, and neonatal care. We work hard to maintain an environment of continuous learning and development. We are the largest teaching trust in the South West, working in partnership with the University of the West of England and the University of Bris... Know more