Community Team Leader

Are you looking to work in an award winning, well-supported, friendly, dynamic, culturally astute, inclusive environment that puts women/birthing people at the centre of a high standard of care? If so, come and join us.

Our latest CQC report has been published and we have maintained our good rating since 2017 and have now been awarded as outstanding for leadership, so, if you have significant post preceptorship experience and are dedicated to providing good all-round care, we are looking for a special midwife to lead and nurture one of our community teams.

We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated, enthusiastic midwife to lead one of our well-established teams on the QEW site. Using your passion for continuous development and improvement of maternity services, collaborative working, and maternity staff development you will work in collaboration and be supported by the other QEW Community team leaders.

Leading a team of midwives, a support worker and an admin clerk you will develop maternity services so that they are progressive, client centred and responsive to the needs of the local population you care for.

With a total of 12 midwifery teams providing a full range of antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care (alongside specialist midwifery care), we are a large workforce looking after a diverse population. We work well together, supporting, leading and developing services to meet the needs of women/birthing people

Main duties of the job

As a Team Leader, you will support staff with ideas and innovation.

You will provide clinical leadership whilst facilitating professional development and carrying continuing overall responsibility for the management and co-ordination of your team of midwives to ensure a high standard of woman-centered care is delivered effectively and efficiently within available resources.

You may be expected to rotate between all clinical areas, including supporting our 24-hour home birth team who currently have a home birth rate of around 2%. You may also be required, if necessary, to support the units including the Lewisham or Greenwich Birthing Centre.

You will ensure that care provided is in keeping with the unit philosophy advocated within the Women's Health Unit Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust.

You will carry continued responsibility for the management of your caseload and team, with guidance from your Line Manager and Trust Policies and Guidelines.

This position will include On-Call and Weekend obligations.

This post is not suitable for newly qualified midwives or international midwives who have not completed their OSCE.

About us

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Job responsibilities

Please see JD for full description

The post holder will provide clinical leadership, facilitate professional development, and carry continuing overall responsibility for the management and co-ordination of a team of midwives or a designated clinical area to ensure a high standard of client-centred care is delivered effectively and efficiently within available resources. The post holder is expected to rotate between all clinical areas.

The post holder will ensure that care provided is in keeping with the unit philosophy advocated within the Maternity Unit Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust.

The post holder also carries continued responsibility for the management of a caseload, ward or department, with guidance from the Line Manager and Trust Policies and Guidelines.

Person Specification Education Qualification

• RM
• BSc or equivalent level study. .
• Recognised Management qualification/ working towards this
• 1st level degree in midwifery

Skills/Knowledge/Ability

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Demonstrate ability to challenge practice/behaviour when required
• Leadership and organisational skills demonstrating knowledge of Health Promotion and Public Health Agenda.
• Can demonstrate commitment to client centred care
• Can support women/birthing people with regard to choice and control in childbirth

Previous Experience

• Significant experience at Band 6 level.
• Experience in leading and nurturing a team
• Resuscitation of the newborn - to required level of Trust guidelines
• Experience of evidence based practice/research
• Knowledge of multiagency working i.e. Social Services, Police etc.
• Evidence of participation in research
• Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (Also)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum plus HCAS