Delivery Suite Ward Manager

Provide effective clinical leadership and support to all midwives, support staff and students working on Delivery Suite, continually seeking to develop the service to reflect service and Trust objectives.

To promote excellence in practice, providing expert advice, developing and ensuring practice is evidence based and to be actively involved in research and audit.

To support clinically where indicated and to support escalation.

Demonstrate innovation through the introduction and maintenance of a quality approach to service provision by setting, implementing, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.

Collect, collate and where needed present clinical and operational data for the service and contribute to the service dashboard.

Be responsible for overseeing staff duty rotas (completed by operational manager) to ensure Delivery Suite has appropriate staff and skill mix to provide safe care within available resources alongside the rota team.

Possessing the knowledge, skills and ability to staff in report and escalating incidents, dealing with complaints and handling sensitive issues and to support staff to escalate incidents. Working closely with the Inpatient Matron and Band 7 coordinator to ensure incidents are reported appropriately and reviewed.

Take the lead for the management of reported InPhase incidents pertaining to the delivery suite and works with the Inpatient matron in the on-going investigations of InPhase reported issues.

Ensure there is effective multi-disciplinary communication within Delivery Suite, the department, the service and with other agencies external to the Trust. Take responsibility for allocating staff members to attend relevant meetings within the service and external to the Trust.

Provides a management and educational forum for staff by leading service meetings and taking responsibility for the cascade of relevant information to the Delivery Suite midwives and support staff.

Participates in the selection process for new staff and student midwives. Plan and initiate induction and orientation programmes, which integrate newly qualified and new members of staff.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job

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