Home Birth Team Leader in Vauxhall

Are you ready for your next career move and to utilise your leadership skills? Our maternity service at Whipps Cross hospital is provided by a supportive and friendly team dedicated to delivering the highest standard of care to our diverse community in East London. A great opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife to join and support the homebirth team to develop leadership skills and midwifery expertise.

You will be expected to work full time (37.5 hours/week) and collaboratively with homebirth midwives across Barts Health Maternity in coordinating the overall caseload of the team, providing comprehensive support for the band 6 Midwives as necessary. You will be expected to have strong yet compassionate leadership presence and be able to communicate within the MDT effectively. Be able to facilitate care for women seeking to birth outside of guidelines and to ensure patient safety is upheld. Ensure the operational aspect of the team is fulfilled and ensure the service is delivered effectively.

Main duties of the job:

• To provide management and leadership to the home birth & normality team.
• Work collaboratively with the ADoM and Matron to maintain safe staffing for homebirth services.
• Promote service improvement and ensure appropriate use of available resources.
• As the expert lead, provide support and organisation ensuring a caseloading model of care for healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies wishing to give birth at Home.
• To provide all aspects of clinical midwifery care including individual plan of care in partnership with the women and the multidisciplinary team as required.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers. Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: Essential: Midwife with UK professional registration with experience ideally in a homebirth or birth centre environment. Desirable: Evidence of undertaking a Leadership Course or equivalent, Newborn Life Support course.
• Experience: Essential: Completion of Capital Midwife preceptorship programme. Experience of clinical practice in a variety of midwifery settings. Desirable: Experience at performing risk assessments and recommending appropriate pathway for care.
• Knowledge: Essential: Can demonstrate a knowledge of current and emerging health care issues. Working knowledge of child protection legislative framework. Evidence of continuous professional development. Knowledge of governance framework and risk management processes. Desirable: Demonstrate ability to implement, monitor and evaluate processes.
• Skills: Essential: Ability to provide effective leadership and motivate those in the team. Ability to plan, allocate and supervise the work of a team. Ability to assess the work of the team, provide support and clear constructive feedback to the team in order to maintain and improve performance. Ability to communicate effectively at all levels across the Department and Directorate. Ability to maintain good working relationships as part of a multidisciplinary team to facilitate care planning and provision. Ability to self-reflect, carry out tasks of own job and identify what s/he needs to learn to be able to do current job better. Can demonstrate understanding of the distinctive role of other agencies to the benefit of mothers and babies. Ability to support others in maintaining health, safety and security. Able to analyse, interpret and action fetal heart rate monitoring including intermittent auscultation and CTG recordings. The ability to communicate with women and their families in an empathetic manner regarding all aspects of their care. Ability to carry out essential and appropriate midwifery care and procedures including dealing with obstetric emergencies and suturing.
• Other: Essential: Ability to work flexible hours to meet service requirements including on-call commitments. Awareness of the equality, diversity and inclusion principles. Car driver.