Senior Midwife/Ward Leader

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Practising Midwife
• NMC registered
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• First degree or evidence of working towards one (demonstrating graduate attributes)
• Practice Assessors qualification

Experience

Essential

• Significant post registration experience Extensively working across organisational boundaries and ability to work within a multi-agency framework
• Significant experience of working with families.
• Experience of team leadership
• Experience in managing change

Desirable

• Experience of audit, monitoring and evaluating local policies.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of professional and personal accountability in line with the Code of Professional Conduct and scope of professional practice
• In-depth knowledge of postnatal care in line with the department of health and NICE guidance
• Clear knowledge and understanding of partnership working to ensure a streamlined postnatal service from hospital to community
• Highly developed communication /presentation and reporting skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to write complex and detailed reports
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multi-agency team
• Ability to effectively negotiate, influence and motivate
• Ability to use a range of IT packages
• Highly developed organisational /time management skills and ability to prioritise own work

Desirable

• Understanding of the NHS structure policy and regional priorities
• Knowledge of Clinical Governance and implications for practice relating postnatal and antenatal care

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to make appropriate decisions at all levels
• Flexible approach to work

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Jessop Wing

Tree Root Walk

Sheffield

S10 2SF

Employer's website

https://www.sth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)