Senior Midwife - Ward 314 | University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an experienced midwife motivated and ready for your next development opportunity. If so, there has never been a more exciting time to join the Senior Midwifery team and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a forward thinking, dynamic and pro-active Midwifery Ward Manager on Ward 314/315 - Maternity Ward on the Royal Derby Hospital site.

We are a a large progressive maternity service which embraces innovation and strives to deliver exceptional care together in partnership with women, families and external stakeholders. This is a great opportunity to develop managerial skills with the support of the wider Management Team .

You must have a passion for providing excellent midwifery care and can provide leadership and motivation for a busy team of Midwives and Support Workers. The successful candidate will work alongside the existing Senior Midwife, to manage a 61 bedded mixed antenatal and postnatal ward.

You must be able to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills to maintain an effective and coordinated approach to ward management by both Senior Midwives. The successful candidate will have an individual portfolio with an initial remit for postnatal care. They will have an exciting opportunity to develop the ward area with the implementation of a transitional care area to improve the services for the women and their babies.

As a senior midwife you will take overall responsibility and accountability in ensuring women, babies and families receive safe, clinically effective, women centred care across the whole maternity care pathway. You will lead by example, offer expert midwifery clinical advice, operationally support and manage teams and services ensuring the delivery of high quality,
effective and compassionate midwifery care.

You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver care to women and babies within acute clinical environments whose needs are complex. You will work flexibly across the service in supporting the delivery of midwifery care, using a range of service models, including continuity of carer.

Senior midwives provide expert clinical and professional midwifery leadership and are accountable for the women, babies, public and staff experience. This will be in line with local, Trust wide and national policies, procedures, values and behaviours.

At UHDB around 9,000 babies are born across our two sites each year at Royal Derby Hospital (RDH) and Queens Hospital Burton (QHB). We provide antenatal and postnatal care for 11,500 women each year and, at RDH, we offer an alongside birth centre. We support women through low and high-risk care pathways, and some specialty pathways like diabetes and cardiology.

We have staff who are kind, caring and compassionate, and who want to deliver exceptional care together for every person who needs us - and that remains our aspiration.

This is an exciting new era on our maternity improvement journey, following a £5.4million investment into our services to strengthen our workforce, our technology and our processes, so that we can further improve what we do and deliver the best quality care to women and their babies. This is a great opportunity to join UHDB and make a real impact for the women and families we care for.

As a University Trust we value learning, teaching, and training so that we help you to be the best that you can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, and we always want to treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves.

An extensive induction package is offered to successful candidates joining our Maternity services to ensure you are well supported and have time to adjust to working within our teams.