Labour Ward Co-ordinator

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced midwife who has a passion for intrapartum care and clinical leadership to join our team of coordinators. You must possess strong leadership qualities, excellent clinical skills, and decision-making abilities, along with the courage to drive forward future development. You will be at the forefront of intrapartum care, providing a high-quality service and maintaining the safety of staff and families under our care will be the focus of your role. You must demonstrate excellent communication skills and be able to challenge when appropriate to ensure competence and compassion are embraced by all.

Main duties of the job

The role will include but not be limited to:

1. Leading the shift and coordinating workload
2. Providing clinical midwifery expertise, advice, and guidance
3. Maintaining the safety of staff and service users
4. Role modelling and being an expert source of knowledge
5. Contributing to the management of the labour ward team

About us

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe, and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its 'Be Safe Be EquiPPEd' campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients through supporting the correct use of PPE.

The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients. We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for full details.

We welcome prospective applicants to contact us for further discussion and a tour of our department.

Person Specification

Skills

• Experienced band 6
• Experience on labour ward/high-risk labour skills
• Excellent clinical skills

Knowledge

• National drivers
• Managerial or leadership
• Safety/risk
• Recent study/learning
• Governance
• Staffing/staff problems

Qualifications

• NMC
• Management/leadership training
• Teaching/assessing
• Advanced labour ward training (ALSO etc.)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.