Delivery Suite Co-ordinator and Flow Co-ordinator

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic midwife with significant experience in high risk midwifery to join the Delivery Suite Coordinator team. The candidate will have daily responsibility for managing a clinical team to include operational and leadership skills coordinating the labour ward and undertaking the flow coordinator role. We are looking for someone who is willing to accept the wide range of ever changing operational challenges in delivering high quality safe care while role modelling Trust Values to the whole multi-disciplinary team.

The role involves, nights, weekends and day shift patterns., 1. The Midwife Coordinator has designated responsibility for the management of the intrapartum area. This includes ensuring the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and the setting of standards meeting national and local policy. The Midwife Coordinator will ensure adequate staffing levels are maintained each shift with effective use of manpower and skill mix and within allocated resources to cover a 24 hour service in the Delivery Suite.

2. The Midwife Coordinator will lead and facilitate innovative and evidence based midwifery practice through professional leadership and supporting the clinical team by motivating staff, articulating vision and encouraging creativity within maternity services. The Midwife Coordinator will liaise with all members of the multidisciplinary team and facilitate a collaborative approach to patient care.

3. The Midwife Coordinator will act as a credible and professional role model and encourage and empower staff to develop both personally and professionally and achieve their maximum potential. Conduct the appraisal of staff; formulate the development of personal development plans by utilising the KSF framework in line with Trust policy.

4. The Midwife Coordinator will have a responsibility to facilitate the collection of data and ensure that audit information is utilised to improve the efficiency of the service to incorporate new ways of working where necessary.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.