Overview

Birth Centre Coordinator role at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder has responsibility for the management and co-ordination of a midwifery team / clinical and specialist area. This includes the deployment, supervision and teaching of junior midwives and students. The overall objective is to work as a clinical and managerial leader taking responsibility for the co-ordination of a team of midwives in a clinical area within the hospital, providing antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care for women with both low and high risk. This includes homebirth services and midwifery-led care services. The post holder, in conjunction with the Clinical Midwifery Manager / Modern Matron, is responsible for leading change in clinical practice, providing high quality twenty four hour midwifery care within available resources and enacting the maternity unit’s risk management policy, facilitating the implementation of Clinical Governance within the maternity unit and in the community.We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.For informal details or a visit, contact: Aileen Liddell, Matron. Email: aileen.liddell@nhs.net | Telephone: 020 8887 2485Responsibilities

Lead and coordinate a midwifery team in a clinical area, including deployment, supervision and teaching of junior midwives and students.Provide antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care for women across low and high risk pathways, including homebirth and midwifery-led services.Act as clinical and managerial leader, driving changes in clinical practice and ensuring high-quality 24-hour midwifery care within resource limitations.Implement and uphold the maternity unit’s risk management policy and Clinical Governance framework, in partnership with the Clinical Midwifery Manager / Modern Matron and the wider community healthcare system.Qualifications and requirements

Note: The original description did not include explicit qualifications. Applicants should refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for full details.Employment details

Seniority level: Mid-Senior levelEmployment type: Full-timeJob function: AdministrativeIndustries: Hospitals and Health Care

#J-18808-Ljbffr