Job Description

About the Role

Create an environment where the patients are central to all decision making and the delivery of high quality compassionate care is everybody’s prime objective.

To work cohesively across site to ensure safe staffing and leadership.

• Coordinate the clinical, managerial and educational requirements of a defined clinical area on a shift by shift basis.
• Act as an expert resource to the MDT team and the wider multi-disciplinary team to support them in the delivery of high quality patient focused care.
• Ensure all staff act in a professional manner and all registered staff are working as accountable practitioners.
• Facilitate the Co-ordinator role being available on each clinical shift over a 24 hour period, Monday to Sunday.

Through effective clinical leadership and role modelling, inspire, motivate and empower others. The post holder will need to be highly visible and have an accessible approach for women, their relatives/carers, and staff.

Responsibilities

• Work with the Intrapartum unit Manager in setting and monitoring professional standards and the delivery of all aspects of care ensuring trust policies and procedures are adhered to protect women’s safety and wellbeing at all times.
• As Labour Ward Co-ordinator and an expert practitioner, liaise, guide, and advise the multi-disciplinary team and external agencies in the provision of optimum maternity care.
• Ensure the environment and ward processes are responsive to the needs of women and their carers recognizing the importance of privacy, dignity, and diversity.
• Maintain high levels of visibility at all times to facilitate proactive communication with women, their families, and carers.
• Act as a role model, employ professional behavior that encourages and coaches team members to challenge their current competencies, whilst seeking opportunities to enhance their roles. This includes the creation of a culture of appraisals and personal and professional development whilst setting clear SMART objectives to meet the needs of the individual, clinical area, and organization.
• Deploy staff in line with the trust roster policy, which is reflective of the skill mix and patient dependency, to ensure safe and appropriate midwifery care is provided at all times. This includes full compliance with the roster calendar and effective management of planned absences to enable proactive management of staffing shortfalls and the ability to take corrective action as appropriate.