Delivery Suite Maternity Enhanced Care Unit Lead / Theatre Link RM

There is an exciting opportunity for experienced midwives substantial experience as a Band 6 or above, who are passionate about midwifery enhanced care and leadership to join our team of Senior Midwives on Delivery Suite TWH.

This is a role for motivated, experienced midwives in a high/low risk challenging maternity environment. She/he will have good communication and expert midwifery skills, committed to giving high-quality care and challenge practice in supporting individual focused care and will be flexible with day and night working. To also partake in the on-call system.

You will lead on MECU care, educate and support staff within this high risk environment and be our main maternity theatre link midwife and work in close collaboration with the MDT, Theatre staff, Critical Care., We are looking for a dynamic and forward-thinking midwife to provide effective leadership, be a role model of excellent midwifery practice, particularly within MECU and theatres and demonstrate a commitment in supporting colleagues to provide women centred care and a positive birth experience. In this role you will also assist with the day to day co-ordination of the activity on the Delivery suite and working in close collaboration with the key areas in the unit. Experience of coordinating a delivery suite is desirable. Evidence of up to date PROMPT training and physiological fetal surveillance is essential.

It will involve working collaboratively with members of the multidisciplinary team, giving advice and support in intrapartum and acute midwifery and obstetric care.

This post will also involve facilitating training along with the PDM's.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.

We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in West Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre. Fordcombe Hospital is near Tunbridge Wells and became part of the Trust in October 2024. It focusses on planned care and has two operating theatres, 28 inpatient and day care beds, diagnostic services including X-ray, MRI, CT and endoscopy, and a number of consultation and treatment rooms.

In the 2023 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.