Delivery Suite Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a job share in the role of Delivery Suite Manager to join the Maternity Team at Wirral Women and Children's Hospital. The post is permanent at 37.5 hours per week.
The Delivery Suite Manager will be responsible for leading and operationally running the main Delivery Suite area, the alongside Midwifery Led Unit (Eden Suite), the Induction of Labour bay (Harmony Suite) as well as oversight of maternity triage and maternity theatre activity.
The successful candidate will work within the wider management team, also working closely with the multidisciplinary teams across maternity to provide safe, high quality care., The Delivery Suite Manager will be responsible for the operational running of the delivery suite, providing leadership and clinical advice, including supporting the team of band 7 shift leaders to optimise the day to day running of clinical activity as well as oversight of maternity theatres.
As part of a daily roster, the Delivery Suite manager will hold the maternity bleep and manage unit acuity and staffing across maternity, including supporting all maternity areas with any issues that arise .
Main duties:
+ To provide effective and extensive leadership, expertise and advice to the Delivery Suite environment and wider Maternity Team whilst ensuring, the provision of safe and personalised care in line with best practice, local, regional and national guidance.
+ Work in collaboration with the Clinical Governance Team; lead
+ Consultant for Delivery Suite, the lead for Anaesthetics and for Paediatrics, to ensure the effective management of risk within the Delivery Suite.
+ To ensure the safe, efficient and effective management of the service within allocated resources.
+ To act as a role model and expert practitioner in order to develop both midwifery and obstetric led services.
+ Accept 24 hour operational responsibility and accountability for delivery suite and provide managerial and professional support to the maternity service and undertake delegated responsibility in the absence of the Matron.

Working for our organisation
Wirral Women and Children's Hospital provides care for approximately 3,300 low and high-risk women per year, encompassed within the unit is a Level 3 Unit for Neonatal Services, Children's Services and Women's Unit.
We have a reputation for innovation in providing high-quality care to low and high-risk women in a hospital/community setting.
Our Midwives have a passionate philosophy for promoting individualised care and ensuring high standards of safety and birth experiences for all women accessing our Maternity Service.
The Eden Suite Birth Centre consists of five birthing rooms, two with en-suite birthing pools. In addition, a further birthing pool within the Delivery Suite provides individualised, holistic care to high-risk women along with a further eight delivery rooms.
We have a successful "pop up" MLU in the Seacombe Birth Centre and a dedicated homebirth team called the Highfield Team. We have successfully implemented 7 Continuity of Care teams with 3 more planned to achieve national targets of 100% Continuity of Care, and we have numerous specialist roles. This allows extensive scope for personal development and progression., The post holder should have extensive experience of Delivery Suite, able to work clinically with expertise and credibility. Candidates need robust experience post-qualifying, sound knowledge of the Delivery Suite environment, be approachable and knowledgeable of managing emergency situations, experienced in training and mentoring staff as well as having proven leadership skills. Experience of operational management would be desirable.
If you are dedicated to effective leadership, improving standards of care and patient experience as well as being responsible for providing personal, evidence-based and individualised midwifery care, then this could be the post for you.
You should have excellent interpersonal skills and a clear demonstration of the ability to lead a team with passion and enthusiasm. You should have a clear commitment to current developments and initiatives within the Midwifery arena and sound knowledge of current issues in the public health agenda.
The Job Description attached will provide further information of duties and responsibilities of the role.
If successful in this role, there is a requirement for you to have a standard/enhanced DBS. This will be paid for by the Trust and then deducted from your salary over a period of 3 month.
As this vacancy is within the division of Women's and Children's, there is a mandatory requirement for successful applicants to join the DBS update service. The cost of joining the update service is £13 per year, and applicants are liable to cover this cost with no reimbursement from the Trust. Further details of how to join the update service will be provided upon appointment.
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The Trust reserves the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum amount of applications from which to make a shortlist. To prevent this happening please complete and submit your application without delay.
Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing a DBS application is met by the successful applicant/s. DBS costs are recovered via salary deduction following starting in post.
If the post you are applying for requires a DBS - Inline with Trust policy the cost of submitting and processing a DBS for successful applications would be met by the individual themselves. The amount would vary depending on the level required: Standard Disclosure £21.50+£6.50 or Enhanced Disclosure £49.50+£6.50 (please be aware the additional sum is an administration fee and may increase due to inflation). This will be deducted from your salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment.
The Trust would encourage all post holders who require a DBS for their role to registered with the DBS Update Service. You can find out more information and guidance on how to do this at https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service.
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The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all unborn babies, children and adults and is signed up to both the Wirral Safeguarding Childrens Partnership and the Wirral Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board associated policies and procedures. All Trust staff must be familiar with, and adhere to these procedures. It is the post holders responsibility to attended the Trusts mandatory training Protecting Vulnerable People training, and to follow the relevant Trusts polices and practice guidance.

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