Delivery Suite Coordinator

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Midwife to join our established team of Delivery Suite Coordinators here at South Tyneside and Sunderland Foundation Trust at Sunderland Royal Hospital.

You will work within the Team as a shift coordinator and will be responsible for the day-to-day management and clinical leadership of the midwifery team within labour ward and co-ordinate the safe evidenced based care of the women we care for.

As a directorate we are committed to the development and education of our staff, supported by dedicated practice development and educational lead midwives. The trust supports us to provide a 5-day mandatory training package annually to all of our Midwives.

Family Care is an exciting place to work that will provide you with an opportunity to grow and develop. Many of our staff work flexibly, including part-time and we are committed to supporting flexible approaches to work wherever possible for our people. Please enquire to see how we might work flexibly with you in this role.

You should have a minimum of 3 years post registration experience with the majority being in the acute setting. You should be confident and competent in all areas of midwifery practice. Applicants should be Registered Midwives on Part 10 of the NMC Professional Register and hold or be working towards a degree in midwifery.

If you are interested in becoming part of our fantastic team then we would welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for the day-to-day co-ordination of Labour Ward acting as the key point of contact for staff, members of the multidisciplinary team and service users, ensuring the 24hour provision of a high quality, effective midwifery service, providing leadership to staff and expert clinical midwifery advice and support.

You will promote high quality care, ensuring individual women's needs and choices are assessed, care planned, implemented, and evaluated regularly, maintain a safe and clean environment for staff and service users by ensuring compliance with legislation, polices, protocols including health and safety.

This post includes an on-call commitment.

This opportunity provides opportunity to further develop your clinical leadership skills and you will be supported via a coordinators orientation package and supported to undertake the Labour Ward coordinators development programme at Teeside university if required.

You should have the necessary skills to exercise judgement in assessing a wide ranging and complex pregnancy and labour related issues. Ensure and promote options to enable the delivery of optimum women centred care.

You should possess excellent communication skills to be able to communicate effectively with multi-disciplinary professionals and agencies, ensuring seamless care at a high standard. An understanding of healthcare associated infection, risk management and critical incident reporting is of paramount importance.

Job responsibilities

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One Team One Trust - There are many reasons to work at our Trust. From our commitment to putting people first to our accessible services and award winning teams. We have a passion for research, innovation and tackling inequalities. We are committed to respect, fairness and civility and promote a compassionate, caring and positive culture / working environment.

We welcome all applications irrespective of peoples race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups. Looking after our workforces health and wellbeing is a priority for STSFT. We also provide access to high quality education, training, career progression and support. Flexible working is supported via the Trust's Flexible Working Policy.

The Trust employs around 8,300 people and provides a range of hospital services to a local community of around 430,000 residents. We also provide a range of more specialised services outside this area, in some cases to a population as great as 860,000. We offer our staff outstanding benefits - Fitness Centre (SRH), libraries at both hospital sites, chaplaincy support and access to a Childcare Co-ordinator to help staff with childcare arrangements. The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI generated.