We are looking to appoint a Senior Midwife with relevant operational understanding to join our site safety team adding to our exciting structure providing quality and safety for operational working across our service at The Rosie Hospital.

You will join a team of other experienced Band 7 midwives to ensure our service remains safe, kind and excellent in the deployment of safe staffing across all our areas. An understanding of staffing red flags, nursing and midwifery acuity and quality improvement methodology would be an advantage.

We are proud of our maternity service and are on an exciting maternity improvement journey. You will be supported within your role by the senior leadership team and personal and professional growth is encouraged.

Main duties of the job

You will be supported within your role by the senior leadership team, personal and professional growth is encouraged.

We are part of the Cambridge and Peterborough Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS).

Main duties of the job are:o Providing Clinical and operational nursing and midwifery leadership with support and direction ,of the Manager of the Day (MOTD) across the Trust during the week, night shifts, weekends & Bank Holidays.o Maintaining a visible professional presence where patients, carers and staff can turn for senior assistance, advice and support and upon whom they can rely to ensure that the fundamental and specialist aspects of care are met.o Being responsible for the provision of a safe, effective and progressive nursing and midwifery service to patientso Supporting the Midwifery Manager of the Day (MOTD)in ensuring that services meet agreed targets within the resources availableo Managing staff and being accountable for the quality of services (both clinical and non-clinical) delivered within the span of authority. This includes redeployment of staff to meet the needs of the service across the trust.o Participating in specified projects and areas of improvement work which reflect clinical, professional and corporate aim.

About us

Come Nurse with us...

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It's a great place to nurse, work and live.

You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.

Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?

o Our values and reputation for outstanding care

o Opportunities to experience a range of specialities

o Career and development opportunities

o Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team

o Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)

For Candidates applying from outside the UK

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:

- applied for a Graduate visa

- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment

- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment.

This vacancy will close at midnight on the 29th of September 2024.

Interviews are due to be held on the 29th of October 2024.

Benefits to you

We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Current and relevant registration on NMC
• Additional clinical qualification
• Degree qualification
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• ILS
• NBLS

Desirable

• Relevant postgraduate qualification
• Recent attendance on a leadership development programme
• Senior Nurse Post at ward level
• Management/leadership training

Experience

Essential

• Some experience of managing a ward/unit
• Success in working collaboratively across professions and services
• Experience of operational bleep

Desirable

• Research experience
• Audit experience
• Demonstrable success in managing change
• Introduced evidence based practice
• Highly developed clinical and operational knowledge and experience gained through in-depth experience and study

Knowledge

Essential

• Clinical practice demonstrable knowledge of developments in nursing and midwifery policy and practice
• Clinical governance and risk
• Patient flow, divert and escalation policy
• SafeCare and Health rostering to support safe staffing.
• Revalidation process
• The importance of successful partnership working.
• Principles of lifelong learning
• Professional education and training
• Workforce planning, recruitment and retention
• Strategic Health

Desirable

• Hospital at night initiative
• Sleep safe sleep sound
• Knowledge, understanding of the Maternity Transformation Programme and aims of the work stream - 'transforming the workforce'.

Skills

Essential

• Ability to lead and motivate and empower others.
• Communication skills including: Interpersonal skills, writing and presentation skills.
• Advising and influencing senior managers in relation to risk management and quality improvement.
• Immediate life support
• Basic Newborn life support
• Developing and implementing policies, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion.
• Computer literacy
• Ability to prioritise work, meet tight deadlines and work independently
• Positive and effective team worker
• Ability to think strategically and plan ahead
• Aptitude to undertake advanced patient assessment & clinical practice.

Desirable

• Liaison and negotiation skills
• Ability to manage highly complex clinical and operational situations that involve staff from all levels within an organisation, in circumstances where information is often conflicting or not fully known.

Additional Requirements

Essential

• The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Rosie Hospital

Hills Road

Cambridge

CB2 0QQ

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