Home Birth Team Leader

Employer information

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.

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.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

Job overview

Are you ready for your next career move and to utilise your leadership
skills?

Our maternity service at Whipps Cross hospital is provided by a
supportive and friendly team dedicated to delivering the highest standard
of care to our diverse community in East London.

A great opportunity has risen for an experienced midwife to join and
support the homebirth team to develop leadership skills and midwifery
expertise.

You will be expected to work full time (37.5 hours/week) and
collaboratively with homebirth midwives across Barts Health Maternity inco-ordinating the overall caseload of the team, provide comprehensive
support for the band 6 Midwives as necessary.

You will be expected to have strong yet compassionate leadership
presence and be able to communicate within the MDT effectively.
Be able to facilitate care for women seeking to birth outside of guidelines
and to ensure patient safety is upheld.

Ensure the operational aspect of the team is fulfilled and ensure the
service is delivered effectively.

Main duties of the job

To provide management and leadership to the home birth & normality team. Work collaboratively with the ADoM and Matron to maintain safe staffing for homebirth services.
Promote service improvement and ensure appropriate use of available resources.

 As the expert lead, provide support and organisation ensuring a caseloading model of care for healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies wishing to give birth at Home.

 To provide all aspect of clinical midwifery care including individual plan of care in partnership with the women and the multidisciplinary team as required.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Midwife with UK professional registration with experience ideally in a homebirth or birth centre environment.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of undertaking a Leadership Course or equivalent
• Newborn Life Support course

Experience

Essential criteria

• Completion of Capital Midwife preceptorship programme.
• Experience of clinical practice in variety of midwifery settings.

Desirable criteria

• Experience at performing risk assessments and recommending appropriate pathway for care

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Can demonstrate a knowledge of current and emerging health care issues.
• Working knowledge of child protection legislative framework.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Knowledge of governance framework and risk management processes.

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrate ability to implement, monitor and evaluate processes.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to provide effective leadership and motivate those in the team.
• Ability to plan allocate and supervise the work of a team
• Ability to assess the work of the team, provide support and clear constructive feedback to the team in order to maintain and improve performance
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels across the Department and Directorate
• Ability to maintain good working relationship as part of multidisciplinary team to facilitate care planning and provision.
• Ability to self- reflect, carry out tasks of own job and identify what s/he needs to learn to able to do current job better.
• Can demonstrate understanding of the distinctive role of other agencies to the benefit of mothers and babies
• Ability to support others in maintaining health, safety and security
• Able to analyse, interpret and action fetal heart rate monitoring including intermittent auscultation and CTG recordings.
• The ability to communicate with women and their families in an empathetic manner regarding all aspects of their care.
• Ability to carry out essential and appropriate midwifery care and procedures including dealing with obstetric emergencies and suturing

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to work flexible hours to meet service requirements including on call commitments
• Awareness of the equality, diversity and inclusion principles.
• Car driver.

Additional employer information

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.

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.

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Health NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

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.

Barts Health promotes active travel as part of its goal to reach Net Zero. Each site is accessible by public transport and the Trust has a cycle to work scheme and some sites have Brompton Hire Pods.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 800.9KB)
• WXH Bus Route (PDF, 286.3KB)
• Our Values and Behaviours (PDF, 334.9KB)
• Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 92.0KB)
• Candidate Information Pack (PDF, 549.5KB)