Head of Midwifery

Job Summary: • The post holder is a key member of the senior leadership team within the Clinical Delivery and Family Services Division and works collaboratively with Director of Maternity Services & Midwifery to provide guidance, support and leadership to all midwifery and nursing staff to ensure patient safety, service quality and excellent patient experience is consistently maintained. • Accountable for ensuring the management and leadership of the midwifery and nursing teams, holding matrons, ward and departmental leaders and clinical practitioners to account to ensure the organisational performance indicators and regulatory standards and quality indicators are monitored, and appropriate action is taken according to results. • Provides professional, strategic, and operational leadership across the maternity service to ensure optimum standards of care and service are delivered through effective management of human, financial and physical resources. • Focus is on the provision of responsive, compassionate, visible leadership for wards and departments within maternity and a range of services which are both hospital and community based. • Acts as a strong patient advocate ensuring that a culture of continuous improvement and learning is supported to drive quality care delivery across the division and facilitate the development of clinical practice to ensure excellent care. • Provide group model collaboration with the HoM on the IOW during planned absence and any off site working in a reciprocal arrangement. • To deputise for the Director of Midwifery as required. • Be part of the senior midwifery team on-call requirement providing senior cover for maternity services. For full job details please refer to enclosed job description. Job description Job responsibilities Job Summary: • The post holder is a key member of the senior leadership team within the Clinical Delivery and Family Services Division and works collaboratively with Director of Maternity Services & Midwifery to provide guidance, support and leadership to all midwifery and nursing staff to ensure patient safety, service quality and excellent patient experience is consistently maintained. • Accountable for ensuring the management and leadership of the midwifery and nursing teams, holding matrons, ward and departmental leaders and clinical practitioners to account to ensure the organisational performance indicators and regulatory standards and quality indicators are monitored, and appropriate action is taken according to results. • Provides professional, strategic, and operational leadership across the maternity service to ensure optimum standards of care and service are delivered through effective management of human, financial and physical resources. • Focus is on the provision of responsive, compassionate, visible leadership for wards and departments within maternity and a range of services which are both hospital and community based. • Acts as a strong patient advocate ensuring that a culture of continuous improvement and learning is supported to drive quality care delivery across the division and facilitate the development of clinical practice to ensure excellent care. • Provide group model collaboration with the HoM on the IOW during planned absence and any off site working in a reciprocal arrangement. • To deputise for the Director of Midwifery as required. • Be part of the senior midwifery team on-call requirement providing senior cover for maternity services. For full job details please refer to enclosed job description.