Job summary
Exciting Opportunity: Labour Ward Manager at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
We are delighted to offer an experienced labour Ward Midwife, with a passion to promote personalised maternity care, provide effective management and leadership, the opportunity to join us as Labour Ward Manager at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. You will be pivotal in supporting and co-ordinating the department in delivering a high standard of evidence-based care for birthing people and their families.
You will provide clinical and professional leadership to midwifery, nursing, admin, and support workers, maximising job satisfaction for the team.
The successful candidate will work within a multi disciplinary team to ensure women receive seamless maternity care. They will also provide a specialist and advanced contribution to the provision of maternity services ensuring delivery of high calibre care and efficient use of facilities, manpower and other resources.
If you share our passion, drive and values in ensuring women and birthing people and their families receive quality and compassionate care, then we would like to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
You will be a visible and credible clinical leader, promoting compassionate leadership within the labour ward whilst engaging your team to improve standards of care.
You will have excellent communication skills and will inspire your team with your drive and passion for developing people and services.
Lead by example and empower staff in their personal and professional development.
Work alongside and support the labour ward team in a clinical capacity when required, being an expert practitioner to guide and advise the multi-disciplinary team as required.
Take the lead role in ensuring the environmental and ward processes are responsive to the needs of women and birthing individuals, providing assurance through agreed mechanisms.
About us
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its employees. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
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.
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
Eduaction
Essential
- Practising Midwife
- NMC registered
- To have completed the national practice assessor training or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998.
- Continuous professional development
- First degree, working towards or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive Midwifery Experience on the Labour Ward environment, with experience coordinating the labour ward
- Ability to lead, motivate and develop a professional team
- Ability to prioritise and work as a team member. Leadership skills.
- Experience in antenatal and postnatal care
Desirable
- Academic courses relevant to role Leadership/management
Skills and Knowlegde
Essential
- Evidence of managing change
- Demonstrates resilience through a good attendance record
- Ability to communicate effectively including active listening, writing, and verbally, with individuals on a one-to-one basis and with groups.
- Excellent performance management skills.
- Highly developed leadership skills with excellent interpersonal skills - ability to form positive relationships at all levels.
- Ability to manage complex workload under pressure and prioritise to meet deadlines
- Persuasion and influencing skills - ability to present ideas and proposals effectively.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Integrity - Cares about and knows the importance of doing the right thing and making a difference.
- Ownership - Driven to ensure that both they and their team achieve shared goals and excellent standards of care.
- Sets very high standards for themselves, their team and ward.
- Delivery Able to multitask and manage competing demands
- Possesses a 'can do' approach to problems and demonstrates resilience in challenging circumstances
- Relating Understand the importance of developing others
- Having good emotional intelligence
- Able to tailor concepts appropriate to the audience
Person Specification
Eduaction
Essential
- Practising Midwife
- NMC registered
- To have completed the national practice assessor training or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998.
- Continuous professional development
- First degree, working towards or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive Midwifery Experience on the Labour Ward environment, with experience coordinating the labour ward
- Ability to lead, motivate and develop a professional team
- Ability to prioritise and work as a team member. Leadership skills.
- Experience in antenatal and postnatal care
Desirable
- Academic courses relevant to role Leadership/management
Skills and Knowlegde
Essential
- Evidence of managing change
- Demonstrates resilience through a good attendance record
- Ability to communicate effectively including active listening, writing, and verbally, with individuals on a one-to-one basis and with groups.
- Excellent performance management skills.
- Highly developed leadership skills with excellent interpersonal skills - ability to form positive relationships at all levels.
- Ability to manage complex workload under pressure and prioritise to meet deadlines
- Persuasion and influencing skills - ability to present ideas and proposals effectively.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Integrity - Cares about and knows the importance of doing the right thing and making a difference.
- Ownership - Driven to ensure that both they and their team achieve shared goals and excellent standards of care.
- Sets very high standards for themselves, their team and ward.
- Delivery Able to multitask and manage competing demands
- Possesses a 'can do' approach to problems and demonstrates resilience in challenging circumstances
- Relating Understand the importance of developing others
- Having good emotional intelligence
- Able to tailor concepts appropriate to the audience
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
