Community Team Leader

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced, motivated and compassionate midwife to join our Community Maternity Service as a Band 7 Community Team Leader.

This is an exciting opportunity to provide strong clinical and professional leadership within the community midwifery team, promoting a culture of safe, personalised, holistic and high-quality maternity care. The post holder will champion pregnancy and birth as normal physiological processes, while ensuring that women and birthing people receive individualised care that recognises their choices, circumstances and clinical needs.

Working collaboratively with the Community Matron and wider maternity leadership team, the Team Leader will support the ongoing development and delivery of community maternity services, helping teams to provide responsive, evidence-based care that meets the needs of their local population. The post holder will provide visible and supportive leadership to the community team and will have responsibility for the day-to-day management and direct line management of staff. They will create an environment in which colleagues feel supported and empowered to make effective clinical decisions, problem-solve and continuously develop their practice.

Main duties of the job

A key focus of the role will be to:

• Provide effective clinical, professional and operational leadership to the community midwifery team.
• Effectively manage staff in order to provide safe standards of care.
• Promote safe, compassionate, personalised and evidence-based maternity care.
• Support staff through coaching, supervision, development and effective performance management.
• Maintain a safe clinical environment and promote high standards of quality, governance and professional practice.
• Support the implementation and embedding of national and local maternity safety and improvement initiatives.
• Work collaboratively across maternity services and with multidisciplinary and community partners to improve pathways and outcomes for women, babies and families.
• Promote a positive learning culture and ensure the community setting provides an environment that supports both formal and informal learning.
• Act as a professional role model, demonstrating excellent communication, leadership and clinical decision-making.
• Maintain professional accountability and practise in accordance with relevant NMC standards, professional codes and evidence-based guidance.

The successful candidate will be an experienced midwife with a passion for community maternity care and developing people. They will have the ability to lead with compassion, support change and improvement, and inspire a team to deliver consistently high standards of care.

About us

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job