# Community Midwifery Team Leader **Company**: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: Isleworth **Experience**: senior **Salary**: £55524.00 to £62652.00 **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9289-SC-498?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/community-midwifery-team-leader-df2d6d74-5d9/ ## Description An opportunity has come up for an experienced midwife to join one of our established community teams. Are you a forward thinking, experienced midwife who wants a new challenge? Are you passionate about change and have excellent leadership skills? Community Midwifery is the core pathway for the majority of Women and Birthing People expecting a baby. Offering antenatal care, postnatal care and intrapartum care to those choosing to give birth at home, the Community Midwife plays a pivotal role in providing individualised, holistic care throughout the pregnancy continuum. The Band 7 Community Team Leader will lead a team of B6 midwives, providing compassionate leadership, expert clinical support, and effective oversight of the delivery of safe high quality maternity care to our families in the Community. **Main duties of the job** - Have delegated responsibility for 24-hr cover within the community midwifery service. This includes formulating rosters to ensure adequate and appropriate cover and when required, liaising with and deploying staff on a shift by shift basis according to service need. - Monitor the activity within your designated team and across the service on a daily basis and manage high activity and staffing issues as required. - Be an autonomous practitioner providing clinical leadership and expertise in all aspects of midwifery practice, which includes providing direct care to women. - Delegate clinical tasks to staff members on duty as appropriate e.g. care of complex cases, routine checking of equipment. - Facilitate the development of all staff including student midwives, junior medical staff and support workers through evidence-based teaching and empowerment. - Assess, develop, implement and evaluate the highest standards of care based on evidenced-based practice. **Benefits** - Competitive salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year - Agenda for Change pay scheme - Band 7 position - Permanent contract - Flexible working and compressed hours available **Person Specification** - Education and Qualifications: + Essential: Mentorship qualification, Degree level or equivalent experience, Registered Midwife + Desirable: NLS / Examination of the Newborn trained, Evidence of other professional managerial qualifications - Experience: + Essential: Practicing midwife with comprehensive experience in community, Facilitate effective team working, Evidence of knowledge of recent midwifery research and clinical audit, Demonstrate an ability to apply research to practice and to support changes in practice as a result of clinical audit, Ability to practice within the scope of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct, Communicating effectively with women, staff and other agencies, Evidence of professional development relevant to the specific role + Desirable: Evidence of previous management experience, Understanding of budgets and dynamics - Skills and Knowledge: + Essential: Able to prioritise and meet deadlines, Effective time management for self and others For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - Midwifery - Leadership - Team Management - Communication - Time Management ### Nice to have - NLS / Examination of the Newborn trained - Evidence of other professional managerial qualifications - Previous management experience --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9289-SC-498?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)