Job Description

Labour Ward coordinator
18 hours per week
Permanent
Salary: xc2xa346,148 - xc2xa352,809 per annum pro rata
Closing Date: 9th May 2025
Interview Date: 19th May 2025
This post may close early due to high numbers of applicationstherefore you are advised to apply promptly.
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This is an opportunity to join our skilled, friendly, professional, and caring team, we are looking for an experienced midwife who wants to be part of the exciting future plans within Maternity. We are a unit who provide personalised care for women, babies and their families ensuring a first class service and experience.
The successful candidate will be committed to leading the day to day activity on labour suite whilst ensuring the safety of mothers and their babies.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to work as part of the multi-disciplinary team, demonstrating excellent communication skills and sound knowledge of both low and high risk midwifery. You will act as a professional role model to the wider team, setting examples to all disciplines.
The benefits include:

• Dynamic and supportive management team
• Excellent multi-disciplinary Team working
• Expansion of Midwifery and Obstetric teams
• Forward thinking in response to new national initiatives, including the saving babies lives care bundle and Three Year Delivery Plan
• Named professional midwifery advocate
• On-going professional development.
• The opportunity to undertake the world class leadership programme LEO (Leading an Empowered Organisation)

About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' taking centre stage. An ever evolving clinically- led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive health services delivered by inspiring and compassionate staff who share our corporate values:
Effective open communication
Excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Date posted
28 April 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
xc2xa346,148 to xc2xa352,809 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
230-32936735-WCS-B
Job locations
GEH Maternity Hospital
College Street
Nuneaton
CV10 7DJ
Job description
Job responsibilities

• Provide a full range of care and health education in a hospital setting performing clinical midwifery duties.
• Act as experienced mentor for less experienced midwives and student midwives.
• Assess the full range of care needs and develop, implement and evaluate provision of care throughout the childbirth period for women and their babies.
• Continuing responsibility for the day to day management of the allocated area, ensuring delivery of high standard of midwifery care through effective management of staff and resources within the service.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached. Job description
Job responsibilities

• Provide a full range of care and health education in a hospital setting performing clinical midwifery duties.
• Act as experienced mentor for less experienced midwives and student midwives.
• Assess the full range of care needs and develop, implement and evaluate provision of care throughout the childbirth period for women and their babies.
• Continuing responsibility for the day to day management of the allocated area, ensuring delivery of high standard of midwifery care through effective management of staff and resources within the service.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Qualification and Professional Training
Essential

• Registered midwife
• ENB 997/998 or other qualification in teaching and assessing or equivalent
• Evidence of further professional development relevant to current post
• Evidence of management/leadership training/skills

Desirable

• PMA/ Willing to undertake PMA training
• Evidence of advanced midwifery studies
• Newborn Initial Physical Examination

Experience and Knowledge
Essential

• Mentorship of student midwives
• Recent labour ward experience
• Experience in all areas of midwifery
• Evidence of advanced leadership skills
• Proven organisational & management skills
• Awareness of changes in the Health Service and the impact on maternity care provision
• Understanding of the PMA role
• Excellent delegation skills
• Counselling skills according to need of individual patient/staff
• Computer literate

Desirable

• Involvement in changes in midwifery care
• Community midwifery experience

Skills and Abilities
Essential

• Able to exercise professional accountability and responsibility
• Demonstrate ability to undertake midwifery competencies e.g. suturing perineums, topping up epidurals (Consultant unit only), IV cannulation, IV administration, venepuncture, CTG interpretation, care of women using hydrotherapy in labour

Desirable

• Able to provide holistic and appropriate care

Personal Qualities
Essential

• Organised approach to work
• Assertive behaviour
• Able to work autonomously
• Good interpersonal & communication skills
• Effective time management skills

Trust Values
Essential

• Effective open communication
• Excellence and safety in all that we do
• Challenge but support
• Excel respect and dignity
• Local healthcare that inspires confidence

Person Specification
Qualification and Professional Training
Essential

• Registered midwife
• ENB 997/998 or other qualification in teaching and assessing or equivalent
• Evidence of further professional development relevant to current post
• Evidence of management/leadership training/skills

Desirable

• PMA/ Willing to undertake PMA training
• Evidence of advanced midwifery studies
• Newborn Initial Physical Examination

Experience and Knowledge
Essential

• Mentorship of student midwives
• Recent labour ward experience
• Experience in all areas of midwifery
• Evidence of advanced leadership skills
• Proven organisational & management skills
• Awareness of changes in the Health Service and the impact on maternity care provision
• Understanding of the PMA role
• Excellent delegation skills
• Counselling skills according to need of individual patient/staff
• Computer literate

Desirable

• Involvement in changes in midwifery care
• Community midwifery experience

Skills and Abilities
Essential

• Able to exercise professional accountability and responsibility
• Demonstrate ability to undertake midwifery competencies e.g. suturing perineums, topping up epidurals (Consultant unit only), IV cannulation, IV administration, venepuncture, CTG interpretation, care of women using hydrotherapy in labour

Desirable

• Able to provide holistic and appropriate care

Personal Qualities
Essential

• Organised approach to work
• Assertive behaviour
• Able to work autonomously
• Good interpersonal & communication skills
• Effective time management skills

Trust Values
Essential

• Effective open communication
• Excellence and safety in all that we do
• Challenge but support
• Excel respect and dignity
• Local healthcare that inspires confidence