Senior Midwife / Team Lead

The successful candidate will also be responsibility for service improvement in accordance with national guidance e.g. Saving babies lives care bundle 2, Maternity incentive scheme and developing continuity of care models to deliver the Better Births vision.

We are seeking highly motivated, experienced, dynamic and inspirational senior midwives to lead the community services in the Wansbeck and North Tyneside.

You will need to be able to demonstrate recent clinical experience, have the requisite level of competencies at band 7 and provide evidence of on-going professional development. NLS, ALSO and NIPE trained would be desirable. Further education is encouraged, including support to attend relevant courses to maintain personal and professional development to meet service needs. We offer a comprehensive in-house training package as well as having strong links with local Universities.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.