Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Community Team Leader
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Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated midwife to join the Fleet & Farnham Community Midwifery Team as a Community Team Leader. Based within the Frimley Park Hospital maternity service, this role provides professional, clinical and operational leadership to a dedicated team of community midwives delivering high-quality care to women and families across the locality.
As Community Team Leader, you will play a key role in supporting service delivery, staff development and workforce wellbeing while ensuring safe, effective and compassionate care. You will work closely with the Community Matron and multidisciplinary colleagues, helping to shape and develop community maternity services and ensuring women receive excellent care throughout pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.
This is an excellent opportunity for a senior midwife looking to further develop their leadership skills and make a positive impact on both staff and patient experience.
Main duties of the job
- Provide day-to-day leadership and operational management for the Fleet & Farnham Community Midwifery Team.
- Coordinate community staffing, workload allocation and service delivery to ensure safe and effective care.
- Support, supervise and develop midwives and maternity support workers within the team.
- Work collaboratively with obstetric, neonatal, safeguarding and community partners to deliver seamless maternity care.
- Lead on quality improvement, clinical standards, audit and service development initiatives.
- Participate in the community and senior midwife on-call rota and provide leadership during operational pressures and escalations.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The Community Team Leader will provide clinical, operational and professional leadership to the Fleet & Farnham Community Midwifery Team, ensuring safe, high-quality care for women and families across the maternity pathway.
The post holder will coordinate day-to-day service delivery, manage staffing and workload allocation, support staff development, and contribute to recruitment, appraisals and performance management.
Working closely with the multidisciplinary team and external agencies, they will promote effective communication, clinical excellence and continuous service improvement. The role includes maintaining a clinical presence, supporting governance and quality initiatives, and participating in the community and senior midwife on-call rota.
This is an excellent opportunity to lead a dedicated community team and contribute to the ongoing development of maternity services within Frimley Health.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Mentorship / PSPA / SLIP
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- Working towards Masters
- Leadership/management training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of clinical audit/quality issues within the health care setting.
- Able to demonstrate awareness of research related to midwifery practice.
- Evidence of successful collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams at a senior level.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of undertaking midwifery research and audit.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates strong clinical leadership and influencing skills.
- Demonstrates excellent written and presentation skills.
- Effective internet and IT skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Leadership skills.
- Demonstrates: Epidural management, Perineal suturing, IV drugs and cannulation.
- Waterbirth.
- Home birth.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.
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Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
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