Delivery Suite Co-ordinator

Demonstrate advanced skills in areas, such as, but not limited to, fetal surveillance; maternal care pathways; maternal and neonatal life support and assessment; management of clinical risk and escalation.

Provide specialist midwifery expertise as required, drawing on experience, research and evidence-based skills.

Fully conversant in dealing with complex midwifery problems such as safeguarding issues, in-utero transfers, baby abduction procedures, etc.

Use leadership skills to ensure the assessment, development and evaluation of care plans in order to co-ordinate the holistic needs of the patients.

Provide care and support to bereaved patients and their loved ones, midwives will be involved in sensitively supporting bereaved families, supporting their choice and wishes, and supporting other staff undergoing this process.

Regularly lead shifts and maintain competence to do so and possess the Midwifery skills/competence to undertake labour care, which includes perineal suturing, emergency interventions, timely escalation, referral and review.

Maintain accurate management records at all times, ensuring appropriate reporting mechanisms are used.

Ensure the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation is applied when patient records are accessed.

Critically examine patient records to identify risks that could impact care and support the team to undertake continual holistic risk assessments.

Retrieve information from digital systems such as the Maternity Dashboard, to provide safe care, and for audit purposes.

Ensure digital skills are to a high standard, having the ability to support other staff members.

Use technical skills to operate, maintain and escalate faults in medical devices needed to provide safe and effective care.

Lead/support the team to identify appropriate local medical devices to support safe practice.

Take measures to ensure the safety of patients, which includes delegation of patient care to midwives with the appropriate levels of skills at all times, adjusting as workload and caseload alters, using developed decision-making skills.

Ensure that duty rota for the staff will provide effective cover to meet with the requirements of a 24-hour service, leading and effectively implementing the escalation policy for the Maternity Unit.

Be responsible for the organisation of midwifery care of the patients who have been assigned to the area.

Escalate concerns to the Maternity Unit Manager and keep them informed of service, staffing, escalation, customer satisfaction, equipment problems, incidents and risk events in a timely manner to enable the cascading of information, escalate it as appropriate or gain assistance from the correct source or give support if required.

Create a learning culture within the birthing environment so that members of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) can address gaps in practice that impacts safe service delivery.

Take every opportunity to maintain and improve your professional knowledge and competence.

Exercise professional judgement and clinical credibility gained from a range of experience obtained within the birthing environment.

Identify areas for development of skills in line with the local and national guidance to support the provision of safe service.

Participate in the development and implementation of education and training programmes within maternity, ensuring equity of provision and consistency.

Develop the role of midwifery within the area, providing training and assessment to extend clinical skills, as appropriate to the area.

Establish and develop a dynamic and interactive learning environment organising preceptorship and mentorship, which meets the needs of all learners and staff in the ward/department environment.

Assess, identify and evaluate own knowledge and practice needs in relation to knowledge and skills required to meet the demands of the role.

Act as a role model by ensuring own actions promote quality and identify and manage any risks.

Attend all mandatory training to ensure practice is safe and credible. Actively seek out opportunities to acquire any additional skills that develop as a result of enhanced practice.

Work in partnership with women and birthing people whose personalised care plans sit outside of agreed guidelines, supporting the MDT to facilitate choice.

Critically reflect on individual preparedness for the demands of the role and your impact on others.

Demonstrate and share knowledge of how local and regional maternity and neonatal systems operate.

Assess knowledge and gain understanding of how operational delivery networks (ODNs), integrated care systems (ICSs), Local Maternity Neonatal Systems (LMNSs) and regional teams support intrapartum and neonatal care.

Appraise and implement the principles of human factors when leading the MDT.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Qualifications

Desirable: - Master's degree or willingness to undertake; - Leadership/management qualification

Experience