Home Birth Team Leader

To provide management and leadership to the home birth & normality team. Workcollaboratively with the ADoM and Matron to maintain safe staffing for homebirth services.Promote service improvement and ensure appropriate use of available resources.

As the expert lead, provide support and organisation ensuring a caseloading model ofcare for healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies wishing to give birth at Home.

To provide all aspect of clinical midwifery care including individual plan of care inpartnership with the women and the multidisciplinary team as required.

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 documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Qualifications

Essential: - Midwife with UK professional registration with experience ideally in a homebirth or birth centre environment.

Desirable: - Evidence of undertaking a Leadership Course or equivalent; - Newborn Life Support course

Experience

Essential: - Completion of Capital Midwife preceptorship programme.; - Experience of clinical practice in variety of midwifery settings.

Desirable: - Experience at performing risk assessments and recommending appropriate pathway for care

Knowledge

Desirable: - Demonstrate ability to implement, monitor and evaluate processes.

Skills

Other