Homebirth Specialist Community Team Leader

Job overview

Homebirth Specialist Community Team Leader.

Saint Mary’s Managed Clinical Service (MCS) are proud to be the largest maternity service in the country providing care for women and birthing people across Greater Manchester and surrounding areas, supporting around 17,500 births each year, cared for by over 700 whole time equivalent midwives. Saint Mary's MCS is a well-known centre of excellence, with an excellent reputation and a vibrant, lively working atmosphere.

All of our staff have been involved in developing our Nursing and Midwifery Values. We believe that they make Saint Mary's a better place for patients and staff.  If you have the passion to provide kind, safe and excellent care we can offer you a great place to work and develop your career. We are focused on improving quality: for our patients, their carers/families and for our staff.

Maternity services at Saint Mary's Managed Clinical Service provide women living in Manchester, Trafford, Salford, the North West and beyond with primary, secondary and tertiary obstetric services. Saint Mary's is renowned both regionally and nationally for its research, clinical fetal and maternal medicine services.  Saint Mary's has a very varied and complex patient population.

If you choose this role then we will commit to supporting your on-going personal and professional development, including the opportunity to maintain your clinical role within the clinical setting.

Main duties of the job

Leading the Saint Mary's Specialist Community Homebirth Team is a fantastic opportunity to shape and provide a high-quality, patient-centred service for families across Manchester.

• You will lead a team of 7 midwives.
• Your team will provide continuity of care to any woman booking for a homebirth across the North, Central & South Manchester areas
• Your team will case load specified clinics for women from deprived areas across the MCS, helping to support positive health outcomes
• You will participate in the on call rota

You will need to be able to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a passion and determination to support the senior midwifery team in line with the exciting national picture of care and compassion,  as well as a local picture of quality improvement. The successful candidate will need good knowledge and skill base of both midwifery clinical practice and local leadership.

In this role you will manage a team of midwives and develop practice as a midwifery expert; providing advice to colleagues in the organisation and work with a range of other agencies.  You will work closely with the Matrons and Lead Midwives. You will be resilient and able to manage complex situations as well as being well organised and innovative. A proven track record of supporting change processes, coupled with good influencing and negotiation skills are key attributes required for this post in order to provide an integrated and effective service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading.  So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!