Maternity Assessment Suite Manager

Are you a dynamic midwife with a passion for complex antenatal care with the inspiration to improve the quality and safety of care for women and babies?, If this is you, we are looking to recruit an experienced midwife into the role of the Maternity Assessment Suite Manager.

Within your role you will be responsible for providing clinical oversight and midwifery leadership for the Maternity Assessment Suite. This role will encompass both managerial and clinical responsibilities, with time dedicated to the managerial role and clinical components.

As the named midwifery lead for the Maternity Assessment Suite you will work in close collaboration with the obstetric and midwifery and multi-disciplinary team to support the delivery of safe, effective and evidence based antenatal care. You will provide clinical expertise and visible leadership and will be responsible for the overall organisation and delivery of antenatal care pathways so that standards of professional and clinical practice are in place and monitored to ensure that women receive high quality care that is safe.

As the manager you will be responsible for work force, people and performance management to include timely roster planning, management of the sickness absence policy and budget., Ensure a high standard of midwifery care is delivered by self and others based on assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care to meet women's needs in accordance with agreed local and National standards and evidence based guidelines.

Set, monitor and maintain standards of care to improve the patient experience and outcome of care.

Proactively manage risk and maintain patient safety, conforming to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.

Communicate all relevant information to the multidisciplinary team internally and with external organisations as required, to ensure seamless care.

Communicate closely with the Maternity Unit and Delivery Suite coordinator's to manage women with a concerning clinical picture.

Staff Management and education and training of junior staff.

You will be responsible for ensuring the midwifery team and care support team are adequately supported and developed to deliver excellent care with compassion

You will be responsible for ensuring that the midwifery team and care support team are adequately resourced and organised to deliver excellent care with compassion

As a teaching hospital and an organisation committed to continuous learning, we offer a broad range of education and training to staff and students/trainees/other learners.

You are expected to fulfil mandatory training requirements, engage in continuous learning and support education and training of others commensurate to their role.

We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.