Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are seeking an Midwifery Duty Manager / Bleepholder .

On a daily basis be proactive in reviewing the capacity within the unit and supporting the midwives in effective and efficient discharge. Ensuring staffing levels are appropriate to provide a safe service.

Provide leadership to midwifery and non-midwifery staff, ensuring effective management of the daily activity and throughout maternity services. This will result in high standards of midwifery care, reduction in length of stay and responsive to individualized needs, thus increasing client satisfaction.

This role will also support the Matrons and Team Leaders in sickness reviews ensuring return to works are undertaken and any escalation required in relation to this undertaken.

You will be an effective ambassador for the trust, be credible and knowledgeable with the confidence and interpersonal skills to support staff at all levels across maternity services and the wider organisation.

You will have knowledge in, improvement methodology and have a proactive 'can do' approach, be highly motivated and confident in managing challenging and changing workloads. You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and will bring a strong patient centered service approach to their role.

This is a new post, which will require a high level of initiative and resourcefulness to develop relationships and introduce systems and processes, including data analysis.

Main duties of the job

• Actively organise/participate in relevant training sessions for all staff.
• Ensure a safe environment is maintained for women, their babies, visitors and staff
• Acting as a role model for staff providing clinical expertise and advice.
• Oversee the daily elective care pathway for women, identifying constraints and liaising with the senior management to address them.
• Proactive in addressing complaints and managing staff sickness and absence.
• Develop and maintain a planned systematic and problem solving approach to individualised care.
• Carry the bleep for the unit, ensuring effective communication between departments overseeing the timely discharge of clients.
• Undertake minimum of 2 clinical shifts per month.
• Work in close co-operation with other Band 7 Midwives to ensure staff allocation is equitable and allows for continuity of care.
• Identify staffing requirements and organise replacements as necessary. Report to Head of Midwifery if issues identified.
• Ensure effective communication at all levels, including co-ordinating Consultant requirements.
• Develop and maintain an audit tool for collection of statistics required to inform on the performance of Maternity Services.
• Provide leadership to midwifery and non-midwifery staff, ensuring effective management of the daily activity and throughout maternity services
• To support the Matrons and Team Leaders in sickness reviews

About us

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.

We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• On a daily basis be proactive in reviewing the capacity across maternity services.
• Ensuring staffing levels are appropriate to provide a safe service.
• Ensure the flexibility of the work streams if required to meet conflicting/changing requirements.
• Monitor compliance with Service Specification for Maternity Care by all staff including adherence to Trust and Women & Childrens Directorate Policies, guidelines and protocols.
• Liaise with Senior Midwives and Managers across the Women & Childrens Directorate, as appropriate, to ensure delivery of a smooth and comprehensive service, allowing maximum participation and choice for women.
• Take an active role in monitoring Trusts Sickness Absence Policy, taking remedial action as appropriate.
• Identify and promote ways of improving the service, utilising available research and in line with Trust and Directorate objectives.
• Actively organise/participate in relevant training sessions for all staff.
• Ensure a safe environment is maintained for women, their babies, visitors and staff.
• Participate in the recruitment process in accordance with Trust Policies and organise Induction Programmes for new staff.
• Participate in following the Trusts Annual Leave and Study Leave Policy in conjunction with Heads of Midwifery.
• Investigate with Head of Midwifery all complaints relating to staff or services and identify how to avoid complaints of a similar nature being repeated.

There has never been a better time to work for our organisation. As one of the largest Trusts in the UK the MSE provides a wealth of opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Our exciting and engaging quality improvement workstreams are bringing forward thinking strategies to managing the changing profile of maternity services

Our Trust Values underpin the ethos of the NMC code.

Person Specification

Registrant

Essential

• band 7
• 3 years experience

Desirable

• study at masters level or equivalent
• experience with electronic rostering

desirable

Essential

• leadership course or equivalent

Desirable

• experience of mentorship/ student supervision

Employer details

Employer name

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Basildon

Nethermayne

Basildon

SS16 5NL

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