We are looking for a dynamic Community Clinical Lead Midwife to manage our out community maternity service based at Salisbury District Hospital. The role of the Community Clinical Lead Midwife is to work as part of the Community Maternity team, ensuring safe effective evidence based midwifery care for women and their families. You will work collaboratively with the outpatient maternity matron, obstetricians, specialist midwives, midwifery assistants, GPs, health visitors to ensure the smooth running of the service. You will need to have excellent communication skills to enable you to work effectively with the multidisciplinary team. The role will also include a clinical element and participation in the duty manager rota.
The post holder will promote a holistic approach to maternity care and provide effective management and supportive midwifery leadership to the community midwifery teams.
The post holder will work as an autonomous clinical midwife and advise staff working in the area, acting as an effective role model and leader.
The post holder will provide clinical, professional, and managerial leadership and will have responsibility for the efficient running of the community services, including maternity hubs.
The post holder will be responsible for the development and implementation of strategies to improve the health of women and children in line with the Public Health agenda.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring a high standard of clinical care is achieved by efficient and effective use of resources, liaising with other agencies, organising, and ensuring supervision of practice, and teaching of staff and students.
The post holder will take an active part in implementing the recommendation of national reports such as The Ockenden Report.
The post holder will be expected to participate in the duty manager rota.
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
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