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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and oversight of the community midwifery team.
• Support and develop community midwives, maternity support workers, and students.
• Ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality, evidence-based care.
• Manage staffing, caseload allocation, and workforce planning.
• Monitor performance, quality, and patient experience within the service.
• Lead on quality improvement, audit, and service development initiatives.
• Promote effective multidisciplinary and cross-agency working.
• Contribute to the investigation and management of incidents, complaints, and learning events to support a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
• Act as a professional role model and advocate for women, birthing people, families, and staff.

Essential Skills And Experience

• Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a registered midwife.
• Significant post-registration clinical experience, including substantial experience within community midwifery.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational, and decision-making skills.
• Experience of multidisciplinary working and building effective professional relationships.
• Experience in service improvement, clinical governance, and quality assurance activities.
• A commitment to delivering compassionate, inclusive, and equitable maternity care.
• The ability to inspire, motivate, and develop others to achieve high standards of care.

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

• Registered Midwife on relevant part of the NMC register
• Significant clinical experience
• Evidence of continual professional development
• Associate/mentorship qualification or equivalent experience
• Relevant and recent clinical experience or with the ability to demonstrate significant experience in midwifery practice and responsibility for managing a clinical team
• Have ability to network, initiate, and develop sound relationships with senior colleagues within and external to the Trust
• Expert clinical skills relevant to specialty and achievement of all midwifery competencies

Desirable criteria

• Experience of writing protocols, guidelines, and integrated care pathways
• High dependency course
• Team leadership role
• Evidence of audit
• Experience of leading change management programmes
• Examination of the newborn qualification

Trust Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria

• Patients First
• Always Improving
• Working Together