Job Description

The post holder will provide professional, managerial, and clinical leadership across the maternity workforce. As an integral member of the Midwifery Leadership Team, the candidate will take an active role in supporting Maternity Services on a divisional level, ensuring that we are achieving agreed performance targets, specifically in relation to issues pertinent to intrapartum care provision. The post holder will lead on and monitor incoming complaints relating to operational issues, outgoing responses and ensure that any opportunities for learning are progressed, communicated, and implemented across the team. This role also requires effective and accountable budget management skills with an oversight around the processes for temporary staffing within Maternity Services.



This role will involve regular liaisons with the Head of Midwifery and Maternity Business Support Manager on recruitment and retention workstreams in addition to the continuous develop our workforce on a daily/weekly basis. The successful candidate will lead on women and birthing peoples experience across our service working with internal and external stakeholders where required to improve care and outcomes. Your Responsibilities: Provide professional leadership and line management across the midwifery workforce. To participate and facilitate workforce redesign and modernisation of the midwifery workforce, working in partnership with key stakeholders, both within UHS and across the LMNS.



To exhibit leadership behaviours that demonstrate respect, resilience, trust, enthusiasm, and energy, positively impacting on the culture of the workforce leading to a happy and healthy workforce. Take a leadership role, maintaining a high level of visibility across the team, whilst remaining responsive and flexible to the ever-changing priorities of the maternity service. What we are looking for: The successful candidate will be required to have experience in working within a senior midwifery role and have a good framework of knowledge around national strategic drivers for maternity services, specifically in relation to the safety agenda. Key core leadership skills to include: Excellent communication skills, including a high level of self-awareness and emotional intelligence.



Negotiation, facilitation, mediation, influencing and coaching skills. Flexible, responsive, adaptable, and resourceful in terms of an ever-changing clinical environment. Professional integrity and judgement.