Safety and Capacity Co-Ordinator

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic midwife who will provide clinical and managerial midwifery leadership with the maternity unit. They will be based in clinical practice, responsible for ensuring that standards of care are always upheld. Working with the Matrons and ward managers the postholder will take overall responsibility for ensuring that flow of clinical activities and staff deployment as and when required is maintained within the maternity unit.
The individual should be visible and accessible to women and their families and staff, ensuring all women and their families could seek information, help, and support or to communicate problematic or celebratory issues. To achieve this, the expectation is that the postholder will be rostered on a 7-day rota to include weekends.
The post will be based at Royal London Hospital although the role will also involve supporting and working closely with other maternity sites within Barts Health.
Contribute to discharge planning by liaising between inpatient maternity services, NICU and Community Midwifery Service.
Have overall responsibility for ensuring that flow of activities is maintained throughout the service.
The post holder will work closely with the multi-disciplinary teams within Barts Health and the LMNS in facilitating In-utero and Ex-utero transfers in a timely manner
The post holder will demonstrate clinical expertise, competency in practice and be a role model.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide clinical and managerial midwifery leadership with the maternity unit. They will be based in clinical practice, responsible for ensuring that standards of care are always upheld. Working with the Matrons and ward managers the postholder will take overall responsibility for ensuring that flow of clinical activities and staff deployment as and when required is maintained within the maternity unit.
The individual should be visible and accessible to women and their families and staff, ensuring all women and their families could seek information, help, and support or to communicate problematic or celebratory issues. To achieve this, the expectation is that the postholder will be rostered on a 7-day rota to include weekends.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage., Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment., We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.
Our people strategy for 2019-2022 sets out our priorities and an action plan to meet our ambition. In this strategy, we set out the deal we are offering to you in return for living and breathing our values so that they shape everything that you do every single day.
As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals' who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.
We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.
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Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.