Ward Manager - Enhanced Recovery Pathway

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000

Job description

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Ward Manager - Enhanced Recovery Pathway

Band 7

Main area: Maternity
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Including weekend/late shift cover as bleep holder when required)
Job ref: 349-SMH-7078762

Site: Saint Marys Hospital
Town: Manchester
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum (Pro Rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 15/04/2025 23:59

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife to join the senior leadership team at Saint Mary's Hospital, Central Manchester.

You will need to be able to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a driving passion and determination to support the senior midwifery team in line with the exciting national picture of care and compassion, as well as a local picture of quality improvement. The successful candidates will need to have good knowledge and skill base of both midwifery clinical practice and local leadership.
In this role you will manage a team of midwives and develop practice as a midwifery expert; providing advice to colleagues in the organisation and working in partnership with a range of other agencies.

In this key role you will work closely with the Matrons and Deputy Head of Midwifery and will have access to a bespoke development plan. The role also requires holding the senior midwife bleep.

Main duties of the job

1. Work autonomously within trust policy, national and local guidelines, and within own scope of professional practice.
2. Provide effective professional support to all colleagues in maternity services.
3. Help to develop, deliver, implement, evaluate and modify individualised plans of care, ensuring appropriate pathways of care.
4. Recognise the need for referral to other agencies as required.
5. Evaluate local services against national standards/recommendations to ensure we deliver evidenced based care and best practice including establishing and implement protocols and guidelines for the trust.
6. Participate in research and clinical audit in own specialist area.
7. To work as a lone practitioner without the support of nursing/medical colleagues.
8. Support in delivering education and training to other staff and students, including medical staff on all aspects of intrapartum care.
9. To comply with the statutory requirements of NMC registration.
10. Accountable for own professional actions.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Experience

• Significant experience at Band 6
• Evidence of good organisational and planning skills
• Recent evidence of continuing professional and personal development
• Implementation of audit / research
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Experience of change management
• Experience of line management
• Experience in benchmarking
• Teaching or Lecturing internal or external venues
• Experience in dealing with complaints and incidents

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife
• Educated to degree level

Knowledge

• Awareness of National and local health policy relating to maternity and wider health economy
• NMC standards and requirements
• Awareness of budgetary control

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.