Community Midwifery Team Leader Proud of our workforce

An opportunity has come up for an experienced midwife to join one of our established community teams.
Are you a forward thinking, experienced midwife who wants a new challenge? Are you passionate about change and have excellent leadership skills?
We are looking for a Community Team Leader to support our community midwifery service.
You will act as the key point of contact for community staff and the multidisciplinary team. Ensuring provision of high quality, effective midwifery services, providing leadership to staff and expert clinical midwifery advice. You will manage the midwifery staff to ensure the smooth running of the service and be a lead professional for the area in partnership with women, plan and implement individualised midwifery led care packages., Responsible for the day to day co-ordination of a Community Midwifery Team acting as the key point of contact for staff, members of the multidisciplinary team and patients.
Ensuring the 24 hour provision of a high quality, effective midwifery service, providing leadership to staff and expert clinical midwifery advice.
Manage midwifery and support staff and the clinical area to ensure the smooth running of the service.
As the lead professional for low risk pregnancies, in partnership with women, plan and implement individualised midwifery-led care packages, + To observe NMC rules and guidance, ensuring these are adhered to by all staff. To foster and develop a working environment within which midwives can work as autonomous practitioners, accountable for their practice and in accordance with the NMC Rules and Code of Practice (2015).
+ To development trust policies and protocols pertaining to midwifery practice and maternity care.
+ Implement Trust and local policies and contribute to any proposed changes to midwifery working practices or procedures
+ To monitor and maintain good standards of care within maternity services to implement recommendations from government or professional bodies in relation to maternity care.
+ To develop and maintain efficient and effective communication and working relationships with other professional groups and colleagues.
CLINICAL
+ As the lead professional for low risk pregnancies, in partnership with women, plan and implement individualised midwifery-led care packages, continually assessing, analysing and determining appropriate courses of action. Lead and coordinate the provision of high-quality evidence-based midwifery care and advice throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period, in a variety of settings including hospital, community and home.
+ Support women in their choice of home birth, and when necessary support women and staff with 'outside of guidance' requests.
+ To act as an advocate for women and in partnership with them, support their choices for birth whilst planning and implementing care in partnership with the multi -disciplinary team, continually assessing and determining appropriate courses of action.
MANAGEMENT
+ Take responsibility for the day to day management and daily running of the Community services ensuring that high quality care is delivered and maintained at all times.
+ Ensure that all adverse clinical risks are recorded and reported using the appropriate incident reporting system and forms.
+ To ensure that optimal use is made of available resources to provide appropriate and effective cover over any 24 hour period.
+ To reassess the staffing rosters in the light of unexpected absences and adjust accordingly to meet the needs of the service.
LEADERSHIP
+ To act as an effective role model and demonstrate effective organisational and leadership skills, including motivation of staff and change management
+ To instil confidence and vision in team members, whilst supporting and leading them in excellent service provision, with the woman and her family at the heart of the process.
+ To promote and provide empowering and professional leadership to all colleagues and staff members.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.

Proud of our workforce
· Our 7,500 staff are recruited from local communities and around the world
· Our staff rate us second among acute trusts in London as a place to work
· Despite challenges in the NHS, our low staff vacancy rate remains significantly better than the national average
· We are passionate about the health and wellbeing of our staff with a huge support offer, including our nationally-recognised free back-up care scheme and Timewise accreditation as a flexible employer
· We love to develop our people, offering a range of development programmes and apprenticeships, with our healthcare support worker apprentices winning Apprentice of the Year for two years running
· We offer a fantastic range of salary sacrifice schemes, from season ticket loans, bicycles and vehicles, to gym memberships, home electronics and holidays

+ Please check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
+ If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks after the closing date, we regret that this usually means your application was not successful.
+ In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.
+ During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.
+ Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.