Site Safety Midwife

We are seeking an experienced and confident midwife to join our maternity leadership team.

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior midwife who is passionate about patient safety and the delivery of safe, kind and excellent care. Working closely with the Midwifery Manager of the Day, you will provide visible clinical and operational leadership across maternity services, including during nights, weekends and bank holidays.

You will support the safe coordination of maternity activity, staffing and patient flow. You will provide senior advice and direction to clinical teams, respond to emerging operational pressures and ensure that concerns relating to capacity, acuity, staffing and safety are identified, escalated and managed appropriately. 

You will be a calm, credible and approachable leader who can make effective decisions in complex and rapidly changing situations. You will work collaboratively with maternity teams, ward and area managers, the Trust Operations Centre and the wider multidisciplinary team to maintain safe services and support the best possible experience and outcomes for women, birthing people, babies and families. 

You will have an opportunity to contribute to service improvement through the monitoring of maternity red flags, staffing redeployments, emergency activity and other safety information. You will help identify themes, share learning and support improvements in quality, workforce deployment and operational resilience.

• Provide visible senior midwifery and operational leadership, with support and direction from the Midwifery Manager of the Day.
• Coordinate and oversee maternity staffing, activity, capacity and patient flow, responding promptly to changes in clinical demand.
• Assess maternity staffing requirements and support the safe deployment or redeployment of staff according to activity, acuity and service need.
• Recognise and escalate concerns relating to staffing, capacity, safeguarding, patient flow and clinical safety.
• Work closely with ward and area managers, on-call teams, the Trust Operations Centre and other healthcare providers to maintain safe and effective services.
• Support the maternity response to emergency and major-incident arrangements.
• Provide specialist clinical and operational advice to colleagues and act as an accessible senior point of support.
• Attend relevant site-safety meetings and represent maternity and gynaecology services as required.
• Monitor and contribute to data collection relating to maternity red flags, staffing redeployment and emergency activity, using this information to support improvement.
• Act as a professional role model, promoting high standards of care, professional behaviour and collaborative working.
• Contribute to service development, clinical governance, audit and quality-improvement activity.
• Uphold the Trust values of Together: Safe, Kind, Excellent in all aspects of the role.

• Current and relevant registration on NMC
• Degree qualification
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• ILS
• NBLS
• Some experience of managing a ward/unit
• Success in working collaboratively across professions and services
• Experience of operational bleep
• Clinical practice demonstrable knowledge of developments in nursing and midwifery policy and practice
• Clinical governance and risk
• Patient flow, divert and escalation policy
• Health rostering to support safe staffing
• Workforce planning, recruitment and retention
• Ability to lead and motivate and empower others
• Communication skills including: Interpersonal skills, writing and presentation skills
• Immediate life support
• Basic Newborn life support
• Computer literacy
• Ability to prioritise work, meet tight deadlines and work independently
• The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent

• Relevant postgraduate qualification programme
• Senior Midwife Post at ward level
• Management/leadership training
• Research experience
• Audit experience
• Demonstrable success in managing change
• NHS experience
• Knowledge, understanding of the Maternity Transformation Programme
• Liaison and negotiation skills

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.