Ward Manager PNW

As the Band 7 Midwife, you'll be at the heart of ensuring the safety and well-being of women, babies, and their families, while creating a positive and supportive experience for all. You'll provide strong, compassionate leadership, managing and inspiring your team to deliver the very best care.

Your role goes beyond clinical expertise--you'll take ownership of specific areas within the Maternity Service, ensuring systems and processes are in place to provide safe, effective, and seamless care. By working closely with your team and across all areas of maternity, you'll help shape a service that truly makes a difference in the lives of those we support.

Main duties of the job

Ensure effective communication with multi professional / multi agency teams. Promote and maintain effective working relationships with maternity services providers across the MSE.

Ensure effective and transparent communication with patients, relatives, carers and staff, taking into consideration level of understanding, culture and background.

Raise and escalate concerns appropriately regarding quality and patient safety.

Respond to informal and formal complaints by patients, relatives or carers in the course of day-to-day duties, in line with local policy and procedures and escalate concerns you are unable to resolve to an appropriate person.

With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we can now do more and go further in delivering health services to our local communities.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

Patients will experience improved care as well as fewer delays and cancellations. We are able to provide more once-in-a-lifetime specialist care region-wide. With our new trust size will come more opportunities for development, research, networking and innovation.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

£46,148 a year Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)