Fetal Medicine/Multiple Pregancy Team Leader

Job overview

We are excited to announce an opportunity to join our dedicated Fetal Medicine/Multiple Team as a Band 7 Team leader. If you are passionate about fetal wellbeing during pregnancy including multiple pregnancies and want to be part of clinical leadership, co-ordination between QCCH and SMH, supporting service improvement, flexible working pattern and ensuring high standards of care to women and families, we invite you to express your interest in this vital role.

We are looking for a motivated and experienced midwife who will play a crucial role in understanding how a specialized care is provided to expectant mothers and their babies. You will have the chance to work alongside a multidisciplinary team, enhancing your skills and knowledge in advanced fetal medicine including ANNB results.

Main duties of the job

• As clinical leader, promote teamwork within a multi-professional environment, demonstrating critical analysis and decision making skills, leading the delivery of a clinically excellent, high quality service influencing and facilitating change within the units and where appropriate the organisation.
• Be visible in the clinical area and act as a professional resource for both staff and women. Be able to act decisively whilst maintaining a meticulous approach to standards of care.
• Ensure a culture of continuous quality improvement through the use of audit, client feedback and reflection on practice by self and other members of the team.
• Ensure a continuous improvement approach within the team. Ensure the compliance of clinical quality indicators. Be committed to “making a difference”.
• Responsible for promoting a safe and clean environment for staff, women and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols e.g. health and safety, healthcare associated infection, risk management and critical incident reporting and analysis, assessing and managing actual and potential risks to health and well-being.
• Provides midwifery care to women in the antenatal and postnatal period, including management of emergencies and appropriate referral if indicated. Lead the multiples team and support the team to be present for intrapartum care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.