Community Team Leader

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced, motivated and compassionate midwife to join our Community Maternity Service as a Band 7 Community Team Leader.

This is an exciting opportunity to provide strong clinical and professional leadership within the community midwifery team, promoting a culture of safe, personalised, holistic and high-quality maternity care. The post holder will champion pregnancy and birth as normal physiological processes, while ensuring that women and birthing people receive individualised care that recognises their choices, circumstances and clinical needs.

Working collaboratively with the Community Matron and wider maternity leadership team, the Team Leader will support the ongoing development and delivery of community maternity services, helping teams to provide responsive, evidence-based care that meets the needs of their local population. The post holder will provide visible and supportive leadership to the community team and will have responsibility for the day-to-day management and direct line management of staff. They will create an environment in which colleagues feel supported and empowered to make effective clinical decisions, problem-solve and continuously develop their practice.

Main duties of the job

A key focus of the role will be to:

• Provide effective clinical, professional and operational leadership to the community midwifery team.
• Effectively manage staff in order to provide safe standards of care.
• Promote safe, compassionate, personalised and evidence-based maternity care.
• Support staff through coaching, supervision, development and effective performance management.
• Maintain a safe clinical environment and promote high standards of quality, governance and professional practice.
• Support the implementation and embedding of national and local maternity safety and improvement initiatives.
• Work collaboratively across maternity services and with multidisciplinary and community partners to improve pathways and outcomes for women, babies and families.
• Promote a positive learning culture and ensure the community setting provides an environment that supports both formal and informal learning.
• Act as a professional role model, demonstrating excellent communication, leadership and clinical decision-making.
• Maintain professional accountability and practise in accordance with relevant NMC standards, professional codes and evidence-based guidance.

The successful candidate will be an experienced midwife with a passion for community maternity care and developing people. They will have the ability to lead with compassion, support change and improvement, and inspire a team to deliver consistently high standards of care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Job Description and Person Specification are attached to this job, please review for the full details and responsibilities

• Provide sound clinical, professional, educational and managerial leadership to midwives and support staff working within the community setting.
• Provide consistent, visible leadership, creating a supportive environment that enables staff to make effective decisions and deliver high-quality care.
• Undertake direct line management responsibilities, supporting staff development and encouraging colleagues to develop their professional, clinical and communication skills.
• Act as a positive professional role model, promoting appropriate professional standards and effective partnership working.
• Ensure community services are appropriately staffed, identify inappropriate staffing levels or skill mix and take appropriate remedial action.
• Take responsibility, alongside the Community Matron, for the organisation of midwifery caseloads allocated to community teams.
• Promote the delivery of safe, compassionate, evidence-based and individualised maternity care to women, babies and their families across care settings and provide up-to-date professional advice in accordance with relevant professional standards.
• Provide clinical support within all aspects of maternity services when required.
• Participate in the community on-call rota, supporting the homebirth service and escalation pathways.
• Promote a culture in which safety, quality improvement and learning are embedded within everyday practice.
• Ensure clinical risks are identified and reported through the appropriate clinical risk reporting framework, commence appropriate investigations and monitor outcomes and lessons learned.
• Proactively contribute to the development and improvement of community midwifery pathways.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across maternity services to support safe and effective care.
• Build effective professional relationships and promote partnership working across community and maternity services.

Applicant requirements

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.