Community Midwifery Team leader

The post holder will work be responsible for leading and supporting the community midwifery team in providing high level, safe and compassionate antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care in the community setting. You will utilise your excellent clinical skills and knowledge to drive maternity transformation and to enable the service to meet the needs of the local population.

We are looking to recruit an experienced and dynamic midwife who has a wide range of midwifery experience and a passion for community midwifery care to join our team., TheSuccessfulcandidate will need to be self-motivated and have experience with leadership and effective communication working alongside a wide multi-disciplinary team including partners within the primary and secondary care setting

As a leader you will be crucial to planning and development within your team and ensuring that patient and staff experience is incorporated into all service improvements.

You will lead on the development of standards and clinical guidelines to improve patient care and ensure practice is up-to date and evidence based

Approximately 5,400 women each year choose to birth at Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. We provide antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care across the Wakefield district and North Kirklees.

At Mid Yorkshire hospitals we are continuing to implement the National maternity Transformation Programme alongside our colleagues in the local maternity System (LMS) the Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) and other community partners.

The NHS plan also focuses on care quality and outcomes improvement which forms the drive for our local maternity service improvement strategy.

If you are an experienced Leader who would like to make a difference to our Maternity services, women and their families, then we would like to hear from you.

Join our team and you will have the opportunity to bring your wealth of knowledge and experience to our maternity service. We will provide educational opportunities which will enhance your leadership skills.

We pride ourselves on: The Mid Yorkshire's vision to provide high quality and safe Maternity services at home, in the community and in our hospitals, to improve the quality of lives for women and their families (Maternity Strategy 2020-2022), We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.

We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.

We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently.

We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.

We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.