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Job summary

Main area
Midwifery
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (May 2024 - April 2025)
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week (up to 30 hours)
Job ref
423-6247063
Employer
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Airedale General Hospital
Town
Steeton
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 pro rata per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/05/2024 23:59

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Airedale NHS Foundation Trust logo

Labour Ward Co-Ordinator (Band 7)

NHS AfC: Band 7

Be part of our future landscape

At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.  

We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.

These are exciting times for Airedale.  We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030.  By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.

 

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, highly motivated and enthusiastic midwife to help lead the team on our labour ward.

You must be passionate about midwifery and committed to achieving the highest standards of midwifery care for both low risk women and those with more complex health needs. You must have excellent leadership qualities, be a good communicator and have the ability to challenge to ensure that women receive women centred individualised care.

We are a small and friendly unit at Airedale providing the highest standard of maternity care for approximately 2000 women. We support births at home, in our midwifery led rooms including 2 birthing pools and in our consultant led unit, all set in a picturesque semi-rural location.

 

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for the effective management of the labour ward over the 24-hour period; you will need to demonstrate clinical expertise and compassionate leadership to the midwifery team as well as work alongside members of the multi-disciplinary team. Being responsive to a dynamic environment is a key skill, supporting all staff to meet the needs of the service. The post holder will be responsible for the deployment and supervision of staff when required to meet the needs of the maternity service.

Working for our organisation

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is an award-winning NHS hospital and community services trust providing high quality, personalised, acute, elective, specialist and community care for a population of over 200,000 people from a widespread area covering 700 square miles within Yorkshire and Lancashire. Our catchment population stretches as far as the Yorkshire Dales and the National Park in North Yorkshire, reaching areas of North Bradford and Guiseley in West Yorkshire and extending into Colne and Pendle in the East of Lancashire.

Our local population is very supportive of the Trust and our level of community engagement is a testament to this. Our communities and location strongly shape the priorities of the Trust.

We employ over 3,000 staff and have over 350 committed volunteers. On an annual basis we treat over 32,000 Inpatients, 31,000 Non-Elective patients and 155,000 Outpatients. Our Emergency Department sees approximately 70,000 patients and over 2,000 babies are born at Airedale Hospital each year.

We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. 

We want to attract staff who embrace our Right Care behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients we want to make these part of our DNA.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant experience working at band 6 midwife
  • Competence in all aspects of care – theatre work, suturing, epidural top ups etc
  • Proficiency in cannulation
  • Administration of IV drugs

Training

Essential criteria
  • Staff development training
Desirable criteria
  • Complaints training
  • Managing sickness and absence
  • Management course

Additional Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of project work / change management leading to care development

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Ability to co-ordinate and undertake all roles within the Maternity Unit
Desirable criteria
  • ALSO course or equivalent

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Up to date knowledge of evidence based care, risk management and audit.
  • Knowledge of NHS and wider issues related to care.

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Leadership skills
  • Communication skills
  • Excellent organisation skills
  • Optimistic
  • Motivated

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardDisability Confident - two yearsNHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion PartnersVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerPositive about disabled peopleInvestors in PeopleDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Happy to Talk Flexible WorkingArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Laura Fordham
Job title
Maternity Matron
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01535292385
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