Delivery Suite Coordinator

Job overview

Team QEH are searching for midwives, passionate and experienced in Intrapartum Care, to join our team as a Delivery Suite Co-Ordinator.

Applicants could currently be working as a Delivery Suite Co-Ordinator, or be a midwife looking to further their career and become a Co-Ordinator, either way we would welcome your application.

We offer a warm, welcoming, supportive team who truly care about women’s experience of pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood.  We strive to continually build on our service to meet the changing needs of our women and families. We also recognise and reflect national initiatives such as the “Maternity Transformation Programme” and we look forward to welcoming our new team members and their experience and skills in our journey to achieving this.

To lead on a shift by shift basis the clinical running of maternity inpatient services, escalating to the senior leaders as appropriate.

You would also be expected to complete 9 on-calls per year to support escalation of the unit should acuity indicate.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated, dynamic individual who can inspire and lead a team on a shift-by-shift basis. As a Delivery Suite Co-ordinator there is the expectation you will strive to support the team to provide high quality, compassionate safe midwifery care, whilst having an overarching view of activity and acuity within our maternity services. Those appointed to the role will also be required to undertake some shifts within our newly opened Maternity Triage Unit.

A successful candidate would bring to the role:

• A commitment to providing high standard safe midwifery care, inspiring those around them to do the same.
• An enthusiasm to continuous improvement demonstrated through innovation and creativity.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, as well as being able to work well as a pivotal member of the multi-disciplinary team.

Our commitment to the successful candidate/s is to invest in them to develop and fulfil all their potential as a Delivery Suite Co-Ordinator with mentoring and regular one to one’s, access to continued professional development and a robust training package.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about this role, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.