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About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Deputy Head of Midwifery
Accepting applications until: 31-Aug-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 31-Aug-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Unit 7/8
- Cyfeiriad
- Silver Fox way
- Tref
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Cod post
- NE27 0QJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Cyflog
- £64,455 - £74,896 per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 8b)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Midwifery
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
The Deputy Head of Midwifery has responsibility for the delivery of safe, clinically and cost effective and compassionate midwifery care within the Trust and provides assurance evidence to the Head of Midwifery and other senior colleagues regarding compliance against all appropriate professional, organisational and national standards.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Advert
The Deputy Head of Midwifery Role is key to supporting the operational management of the maternity services reporting into the Head of Midwifery.
The post holder will be an enthusiastic, motived, visible and accessible professional midwifery leader and be professionally responsible for the delivery of a high quality maternity service within the Trust.
The Deputy Head of Midwifery will direct manage the maternity matrons.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
To provide professional and effective clinical leadership and accountability for the midwifery service in conjunction with the Heads of Midwifery and Business Unit leadership team.
To deputise for the Head of Midwifery as and when required.
Support the Head of Midwifery, Directors of Nursing & Executive Director of Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals in delivering the Trusts safety, quality and improvement priorities and clinical strategy.
To take shared responsibility with the Lead Clinician/Clinical Director/General Manager for Clinical Governance and responsibility for clinical governance issues related directly to midwifery.
To ensure the highest standard of midwifery care through the provision of effective leadership, advising clinical staff and line management of maternity Matrons and Specialist Midwives.
Manage and develop clinical practice in line with national and local guidance ensuring the delivery of specific performance targets associated with the role, development of best practice, quality and service improvement priorities in conjunction with the Business Unit and other key stakeholders.
Responsible for advising on the appropriate skill mix and establishment of midwifery staff in line with BirthRate Plus recommendations.
To provide visible, accessible and senior leadership presence in the hospital and community settings.
Deal with concerns and actively problem solve to improve both patient and staff experience.
Investigate and respond to incidents and complaints within target timescales.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Provide professional and clinical advice.
Prepare, plan and deliver matron and ward managers development for succession planning.
Facilitate an environment where health promotion and informed patient choice and personalised care is encouraged and developed to its maximum potential, with the available resources.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- NMC registered midwife with post registration qualification, at degree level
- Postgraduate management qualification at masters level or equivalent experience
- masters level or equivalent experience • Evidence of sustained personal & professional development
- Significant senior nursing experience and credible leadership experience
- Management / Leadership course
- Teaching qualification and the ability to facilitate learning to others
- Substantial experience in change and project management skills
- Experience in change management
Meini prawf dymunol
- Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), SEIPS trained.
- Leadership Programme
Previous Knowledge and Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Able to demonstrate in depth leadership and management knowledge through training and experience acquired over time. This includes, financial, HR and activity management as well as the leadership of a range of clinical services
- Significant experience of leading clinical midwifery teams
Other
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Driving Licence – It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Katy Lissaman
- Teitl y swydd
- Head of Midwifery
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07976739521
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