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Job overview

Are you a visionary leader passionate about giving exceptional patient care to expectant mother’s and their families? Do you thrive on a fast-paced environment and also enjoy the comradery of a true team? We’re looking to appoint a such a transformational leader to be our Director of Midwifery.

Our current highly respected Director of Midwifery is retiring later this year, and we will be appointing somebody able to shape their own agenda, work with the team and wider Trust and partners and achieve great things. Do you think you could take on the challenge? Make the role your own? Take us further on our journey?

As an organisation recently receiving a CQC rating of GOOD for maternity services, you’ll be able to build on this positive foundation. We believe that exceptional maternity care isn’t about hitting the target but missing the point – and we’re prepared to listen and act on you and your team’s guidance. At #TeamCRH your voice matters. Through strong professional leadership, with the highest level of emotional intelligence and communication skills, you will empower colleagues to develop best practice in line with Saving Babies Lives, Ockenden actions and the Maternity Incentive Scheme. Acting as a cornerstone to the Quadrumvirate, you will directly shape and contribute to the delivery of the three-year delivery plan for the Trust’s Perinatal Services.

Main duties of the job

As the Director of Midwifery, you will demonstrate strategic leadership and professional accountability to support the implementation of service improvement strategies to improve quality, experience, safety, and efficiency for women and their families.

Through highly visible leadership, you will work with your fellow professions in showing kindness, dignity, respect and care for our colleagues, women/childbearing people and families, ensuring the Trust is the hospital of choice and enhancing a culture within the Trust which builds on our values.

An onsite visit with our current Director of Midwifery is essential as part of the interview process to ensure that our values are aligned with yours. Please contact Rebecca Hendy on 01246 513151or by email at [email protected]  to arrange an onsite visit with our Director of Midwifery and to have a discussion with our Chief Nurse.

Working for our organisation

This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful Foundation Trust with a strong commitment to delivering the highest standards of clinical quality, patient care and staff experience. The Trusts ‘Together as One’ Strategy describes our organisational values and a pledge to support our people through compassionate and inclusive leadership.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is North Derbyshire's only acute District General Hospital, with 24 hour Emergency Department services; we're responsible for providing care and treatment to more than 400,000 people who live in our communities. We are modern, well-resourced and in commuting distance of Sheffield, Derby, Nottingham and close to the Peak District. The CQC has rated the Trust as ‘Good’. Our vision is to provide exceptional patient care provided by exceptional people.  We work closely with our partners across health and care as part of the JUCD Integrated Care System.

Our maternity services have over 2,800 births per year which comprise Home and Hospital Births.  The Chesterfield Birth Centre has 11 birthing rooms 4 with pools. Our 19 bedded ante/ post-natal ward is currently being expanded to accommodate Transitional Care increasing the bed base to 21. The ante natal department is based at our Trust site and supports 12% – 13% out of area bookings. Our community midwifery teams are based on various sites across North Derbyshire while the continuity of carer teams focus on areas of highest deprivation.

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

COVID19 Vaccination

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

 UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.  Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route.  Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form.  Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.  Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be  eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications 

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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