Southampton is an attractive place to live and work situated on the south coast, with an international airport and direct trains to London. The New Forest National Park and beaches of the Jurassic coast are also right on our doorstep. The city offers living costs 30% lower than London and 17 schools rated outstanding by Ofsted.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The post holder will provide professional, managerial, and clinical leadership across the Maternity workforce.

As an integral member of the midwifery leadership team, the candidate will take an active role in supporting Maternity Services on a divisional level, ensuring that we are achieving agreed performance targets, specifically in relation to issues pertinent to operational workstreams.

The post holder will lead on and monitor incoming complaints across the Maternity Service, monitor outgoing responses and ensure that any opportunities for learning are progressed, communicated, and implemented across the team. This role also requires effective and accountable budget management skills with an oversight around the processes for temporary staffing within Maternity Services.

Your Responsibilities

• Provide professional leadership and line management to an existing team of midwifery matrons and managers within designated areas and through them, ensure that all members of the clinical teams are managed in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
• To participate and facilitate workforce redesign and modernisation of the midwifery workforce, working in partnership with key stakeholders internally and externally.
• To exhibit leadership behaviours that demonstrate respect, resilience, trust, enthusiasm, and energy, positively impacting on the culture of the workforce leading to a happy and healthy workforce.
• Take a leadership role, maintaining a high level of visibility across the team, whilst remaining responsive and flexible to the ever-changing priorities of the Maternity Service.
• Participate in the duty manager rota assuming full responsibilities for this role in and out of hours, including on-calls.

The successful candidate will be required to have experience in working within a senior midwifery role and have a good framework of knowledge around national strategic drivers for maternity services, specifically in relation to the safety agenda.

Key Core Leadership Skills To Include

• Excellent communication skills, including a high level of self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
• Negotiation, facilitation, mediation, influencing and coaching skills.
• Flexible, responsive, adaptable, and resourceful in terms of an ever-changing clinical environment.
• Professional integrity and judgement.

For an overview of the position, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification document. This includes a detailed breakdown of the key responsibilities, role expectations, and the qualifications we are looking for.

Person specification

Qualifications, Knowledge And Experience

Essential criteria

• 1st Level registered nurse/ODP on relevant part of the NMC/HPC Register
• First degree or equivalent
• First degree or equivalent
• Master’s or equivalent education
• Specialist qualification
• Leadership training
• Management training
• Extensive experience in acute healthcare in clinical leadership/management position
• Evidence of advanced leadership qualities
• Formal and informal teaching experience
• Staff and resource management experience
• Experience of introducing change to clinical environment
• Report writing skills and experience
• Budget management experience

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of specialist area
• Extensive knowledge of National and Local NHS and N&M agenda
• Project management skills

Trust Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria

• Patients First
• Always Improving
• Working Together