Maternity Team Leader (Community)

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, motivated and compassionate midwife to join South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust as a Community Team Lead Midwife.

We are seeking an enthusiastic leader who is passionate about delivering safe, personalised and high-quality maternity care within our community services. As a key member of the Community Midwifery leadership team, you will provide operational and professional leadership to a team of midwives and maternity support workers, ensuring women and families receive outstanding care throughout their pregnancy, birth and postnatal journey.

Our service provides Midwifery Led care as well as Consultant Led Obstetric services to ensure personalised care to all women throughout their pregnancy and childbirth pathway.

As a directorate we are committed to the development and education of our staff, supported by dedicated practice development and educational lead midwives

Main duties of the job

Applicants should be Registered Midwives on Part 10 of the NMC Professional Register and hold or be working towards a degree in midwifery.

Candidates should possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be prepared to work closely within a multi-disciplinary team.

You will be required to develop and expand your midwifery skills through internal rotation within all maternity settings.

You will demonstrate:

• Excellent leadership and communication skills.
• Experience of supporting, supervising and developing colleagues.
• A commitment to improving safety, quality and patient experience.
• Strong organisational and decision-making abilities.
• Experience of managing change and supporting service improvement.
• The ability to work collaboratively across professional and organisational boundaries.
• A compassionate, inclusive and person-centred approach to leadership.

Family Care is an exciting place to work that will provide you with an opportunity to grow and develop. Many of our staff work flexibly, including part-time and we are committed to supporting flexible approaches to work wherever possible for our people. Please enquire to see how we might work flexibly with you in this role.

If you are interested in becoming part of our fantastic team then we would welcome your application.

About us

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One Team One Trust - There are many reasons to work at our Trust. From our commitment to putting people first to our accessible services and award winning teams. We have a passion for research, innovation and tackling inequalities. We are committed to respect, fairness and civility and promote a compassionate, caring and positive culture / working environment.

We welcome all applications irrespective of peoples race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups. Looking after our workforces health and wellbeing is a priority for us. We also provide access to high quality education, training, career progression and support. Flexible working is supported via our Flexible Working Policy.

The Trust employs around 8,746 people and provides a range of hospital services to a local community of around 430,000 residents. We also provide a range of more specialised services outside this area. We offer our staff outstanding benefits - Fitness Centre (SRH), libraries at both hospital sites, chaplaincy support and access to a Care Co-ordinator to help staff with childcare arrangements.If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.