Inpatient Team Leader

Job overview

We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join one of the UK’s largest Foundation Trusts, internationally recognised for its innovation and excellence in healthcare.

If you are passionate about delivering exceptional maternity and neonatal care and are seeking to develop a rewarding career, UCLH maternity sservices is the place for you. You will join a motivated, friendly, and enthusiastic multidisciplinary team, dedicated to excellence within a nationally recognised centre for maternity care.

We are looking for a skilled and experienced midwife to primarily join our dynamic postnatal ward team as team lead. This is an outstanding opportunity for someone with a passion for postnatal care to advance their career in a supportive and innovative setting.

Key Attributes and Skills

• Enthusiastic and highly motivated.

• Strong leadership and organisational skills.

• Expertise and proven competence in postnatal care.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to nurture positive and collaborative working relationships.

If you are ready to embrace this opportunity and make a difference in postnatal care, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

As Inpatient Midwife Team Leader, you will:

• Provide advanced and compassionate midwifery care and ensure prescribing for women with diabetes in pregnancy, ensuring timely assessments, follow-up and evidence-based care planning.

• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary postnatal services, working closely with consultants, neonatologist, specialist support workers, perinatal mental health team, and senior management team,e.t.c..

• Offer expert advice, education and support to colleagues across maternity, primary care and the wider trust, ensuring best practice is shared and implemented.

• Line manage and appraise team members, supporting their development and ensuring service resilience.

• Champion patient education, empowering women and families to understand and manage their condition throughout pregnancy and beyond.

• Take an active role in governance, clinical audit, complaints investigation, and implementation of national initiatives such as the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle.

• Contribute to service development, research and quality improvement to enhance outcomes and patient experience.

Promote a culture of safety, compassion and inclusivity, ensuring women’s voices and experiences are at the heart of service delivery.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.

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