Job description
To support co-ordinate and lead the Antenatal clinic and Pregnancy Day Care (PDC) department, working alongside ultrasound scan and the multidisciplinary team in delivering a high standard of evidence-based care for pregnant women and their families across both King’s Mill Hospital and Newark Hospital.
To provide clinical and professional leadership to midwives the vaccination nurse and support workers maximising job satisfaction for the team. The individual will 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. Working within the multidisciplinary team to ensure women receive seamless maternity care.
The postholder will promote public health and wellbeing using ‘Making every contact count’ as an approach to women and families making positive changes in physical and mental health and wellbeing.
To be professionally accountable for the maintenance of standards of professional practice and behaviours as set by the Nursing & Midwifery Council, national legislation and local standards
Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence based practice, setting implementing and monitoring evidence based standards of care, policies, procedures and protocols
Ensure a culture of continuous quality improvement through the use of audit, patient feedback and reflection on practice by self and other members of the team.
Promote a clean and safe environment for staff, patients and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection prevention, clinical governance, including risk management and critical incident reporting and root cause analysis
Ensure a high standard of compassionate clinical care and record keeping in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council, national legislation and local standards
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.
Our culture of learning, compassion and taking a person-centred approach are at the roots of our organisation. We would love you to join us.
- Demonstrate resilience and determined leadership in contexts that are unfamiliar, complex and unpredictable.
- Strive constantly to improve practice and health outcomes through initiating, facilitating and leading change at individual, team, organisational and system levels
- Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries and proactively develop and sustain new partnerships and networks to influence and improve health outcomes.
- Act as a visible positive role model, creating a supportive ethos to empower staff to contribute to the delivery of high-quality person-centred care.
- Ensure the department is aware of and complies with health and safety requirements.
- Create a learning environment that ensures effective learning opportunities for staff and students including appropriate orientation and induction programmes
- Plan, monitor and ensure all department staff complete the Trust expectations of annual mandatory training and relevant education
- Undertake the appraisal process ensuring that personal development plans are consistent with the team’s, ward’s and organisation’s objectives, succession planning and workforce development and support revalidation
- Demonstrate effective use of resources which may include holding a delegated budget and workforce planning
- Through efficient rostering, maintain appropriate staffing levels and skill mix taking account of role and competence of staff when delegating work
- Manage the department team, ensuring compliance by self and others with professional standards, legislation, national and organisational policies
- Lead department recruitment and selection, and contribute to Divisional recruitment and selection processes
- Manage staff performance and attendance in line with Trust Guidance.
- Demonstrate Trust Care Values at all times.
- Works clinically as required to support the multi-disciplinary team, providing clinical leadership.
- Chair and lead the Antenatal Clinical Governance Meeting to support the Clinical Governance framework.
- Works within agreed policies and procedures.
- Proactively contribute to the Trusts incident reporting policy and review department incidents in a timely manner identifying and sharing learning within practice
- Collate, analyse and report vaccination data as requested by Public Health England.
- Awareness of Public Health Agenda, support and develop projects accordingly to ensure the department is working in line with the agenda.