Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 356-24-6476687
- Employer
- Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hull Royal Infirmary
- Town
- Hull
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Head of Midwifery
Band 8c
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join an ambitious and newly formed NHS Group, NHS Humber Health Partnership, the 12th largest acute and community provider in the NHS. With a budget of over £1.3 billion, Hull University Teaching Hospitals (HUTH) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLaG) (the Group) are united by the purpose to ensure better care is provided to a population of over 1.5 million people.
As part of this transition, we are seeking to appoint a Head of Midwifery for Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Our maternity and obstetric services provide care for women, birthing people and their babies and families in Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire and are based on three acute hospital sites: Hull Royal Infirmary, Diana Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby, and Scunthorpe General Hospital. Along with extensive community maternity services, we have an alongside midwife-led birth centre at Hull Royal Infirmary and a Home for Home Midwifery-Led Unit at Goole Hospital.
The services provide a comprehensive range of maternal, fetal and mental health services for the populations we serve. We are linked to the Humber and North Yorkshire Local Maternity and Neonatal System and work closely with our partners locally and regionally and are proud to have a strong connection to the Local Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership.
Main duties of the job
Maternity and Obstetric care is part of the Family Services Care Group. You will work closely with the Head of Midwifery for NLaG and the Group Director of Midwifery who is the professional and strategic lead for Maternity services and provides professional advice and support to the Group Chief Nurse, corporate nursing team and the Group Board on relevant matters.
You work with members of the senior midwifery leadership team to have an oversight of the operational management ,ensuring safe staffing and patient flow throughout the service and delivery of key quality performance, clinical governance and financial plans, ensuring national standards are adhered to and clinical practice is in line with national evidence best practice.
In conjunction with the Group Director of Midwifery you will provide professional leadership on all matters pertaining to Midwifery, providing professional advice on the development of community and hospital based maternity services.
Advise on quality and clinical governance issues for the service, and implement policies designed to achieve quality in healthcare including infection control, safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and equality and diversity.
Proactively work with the Matrons and Midwifery senior leadership Team to ensure they are fully aware of current practice initiatives, priorities and challenges. You will also have effective feedback mechanism to communicate Trust wide issues to midwives, nurses and support staff.
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
There has never been a better time to join our Group in this senior clinical leadership position. We seek a credible, dynamic and innovative leader who will lead with excellence and confidence. As the Head of Midwifery, you will be fundamental in working with the Group Director of Midwifery to shape our services for women, birthing people, babies, and families and supporting our colleagues who deliver these services.
We are seeking an experienced, compassionate leader in maternity services who has experience of service delivery in this challenging but massively exciting service. You'll need to understand and be able to evidence the power of multidisciplinary and service user collaboration to ensure that the safety of the patients is at the heart of your decision making.
We are committed to providing personalised, kind, compassionate, safe maternity, and neonatal care in the region.
Responsible for operational direction and provision of management of Midwifery services in this senior leadership role. You will ensure delivery of consistently high standards of quality care, robust governance, patient experience and sustainability of service.
The post holder will:
- Exhibit leadership behaviours that demonstrate respect, resilience, trust, enthusiasm, and energy, positively impacting on the culture of the workforce leading to a safe and happy workplace.
- Provide professional, managerial, and clinical leadership across the midwifery-led neonatal and obstetric-led pathways.
- Lead with a strong operational presence, influencing to ensure the provision of a safe, effective, and evidence-based service to women and families.
- Be an integral member of the leadership team taking an active role in supporting the maternity service and the division in achieving agreed targets.
- Support the workforce strategy and take the lead on maternity recruitment and retention, ensuring the workforce maintains national standards for safe staffing
- Be a key influencer in progressing service developments which reflect professional, clinical, and corporate objectives.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- • Registered Midwife
- • First level degree
- • Masters degree in relevant discipline (or working towards) and/or demonstrable equivalent senior experience
- • Leadership/Management qualification
- • Teaching experience
Desirable criteria
- • Teaching qualification • Professional
- • Professional Midwifery advocate
Core Attributes
Essential criteria
- • Patient-focused
- • Ability to manage with complexity and unpredictability, to make difficult decisions and to solve problems
- • Ability to manage resources effectively (esp. Financial and human)
- • Ability to work collaboratively and strategically
- • Track record of achievement and personal/professional development
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- • Extensive clinical and managerial credibility and experience gained at senior Midwife or equivalent level
- • Excellent interpersonal skills • Excellent presentation skills
- • Evidence of effective working relationships
- • Demonstrable leadership and management skills
- • Competent with basic IT skills (word processing, spreadsheets, etc
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrable broad clinical experience relevant to this post
- • Significant experience at Senior Midwifery level
- • Track record of achievement of objectives
- • Evidence of robust financial and other resources management
- • Experience of embedding robust clinical and corporate systems at local level
- • Experience of leading and implementing change
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Yvonne McGrath,
- Job title
- Group Director of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01482 875875
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