Would you like to work in a highly motivated and friendly Maternity team covering Bath, North East Somerset and West Wiltshire? We are committed to providing high quality, woman-centred care, and have already implemented work to provide consistency of care for families.

Rated 'Outstanding' in our latest CQC review, our service consists of an acute and 2 standalone birth centres. We also have 2 community midwifery led units, a 24 hour Maternity Assessment Unit and are in the planning stages of an alongside midwifery unit at the RUH site. This is your chance to be part of a transforming organisation where we aim to ensure all women have access to the optimal birth environment in accordance with their choice. An opportunity has arisen for a forward thinking, motivated, woman centred, Band 7 midwife with leadership and managerial skills to lead our antenatal outpatient clinic. We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced midwife, who is able to role model, lead by example and provide first line managerial support.

The successful candidate will be part of a well-established Outpatient midwifery team, which consists of the Antenatal clinic and Midwife sonography service. If you are a Midwife who would like to be a part of our future and can meet this challenge we welcome your interest in applying for a job at the RUH.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the development and implementation of strategies to improve the health of women and children in line with the Public Health agenda. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring a high standard of clinical care is achieved by efficient and effective use of resources, liaising with other agencies, organising, and ensuring supervision of practice, and teaching of staff and students.

The post holder will take an active part in implementing the recommendation of national reports such as the Three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services.

Management of Birth options clinic

Family Experience responsibilities:

To collect, analyse and identify themes captured in feedback to improve quality and family experience furthermore produce reports and share themes and action plans

About us

At the RUH we're proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we're providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see job description for more detailed description of the role, responsibilities and job specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications and training

Essential

• Registered midwife with NMC
• Significant experience at band 6 or above.
• Training in managing conduct, Health, sickness and performance, recruitment, appraisal

Desirable

• Post-registration qualification preferably in speciality area, or in process
• leadership qualification

Knowledge and expereince

Essential

• Experience in service user feedback
• Understanding of the principles and application of Clinical Governance.
• birth options clinic experince and interest

Desirable

• Experience of complaint response
• Experience supporting women/birthing people choosing to birth outside of guidance

Employer details

Employer name

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Maternity, Royal United Hospital

Combe Down

Bath

BA1 3NG

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