Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (05/10/2025 - 31/10/2026)
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-TM-EMF19060 B7
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey County Hospital
- Town
- Guildford/ Farnham
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 per annum pro rata inc HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Continuity Team Leader
Band 7
Job overview
Continuity Team Leader
We are seeking an enthusiastic midwife for an act-up opportunity to cover maternity leave. You will lead one of our continuity teams, in Farnham, from October 2025 for a year.
This position is open to midwives who are interested in working within a continuity model of care and are able to meet the challenge of leading a team to deliver high standards of care, ensuring that each woman’s journey to motherhood is an individualised experience.
The role will encompass both clinical shifts in and out of hospital, an administrative element and will require an in hospital on call commitment.
You must hold NMC midwifery registration.
You will be expected to be able to show evidence of current practice/updating.
Main duties of the job
• The role will be part clinical to support the team rota and provide clinical supervisory support to midwives to realise their full potential as autonomous practitioners placing women, babies and their families at the centre of care on a continuity of care pathway.
• The post holder will work closely with the Senior Team in maternity services and work collaboratively with specialist midwives, the obstetric team, health visitors and GP practices to further develop pathways so that services are responsive to the needs of women and families.
• The women and their families' experience of our services will be dependent on high quality, effective and customer focused care and the post holder will ensure that care provided is in keeping with the Trust’s vision and values.
• Maintenance of a twenty-four hour maternity service for women and participate in on-call commitments as required. The post-holder will be required to work in both the community and the hospital across a 7 day service including night duties.
• The post-holder is expected to supervise junior staff and to be able to teach qualified and unqualified staff, including basic and/or post-basic students.
The Continuity Team Leader will provide clinical leadership, facilitate professional development and operationally manage one or more continuity midwifery teams.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic midwife to join our innovative and award winning maternity service.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 position to provide leadership to ensure effective management of continuity of carer/case loading teams. The teams operate in a shift based system and provide care across the full maternity pathway. This provides enormous job satisfaction, excellent clinical outcomes and a positive and personalised patient experience. The model of care enables midwives to build relationships with the women and families in their care, seeing them at home, in the bespoke maternity hubs and on the maternity unit.
This post holder will need to be highly organised with an ability to maintain safe provision of care for women within the team. This will include reviewing clinic capacity, activity and staffing and supporting the clinical provision of care for a proportion of the contracted hours. The post holder will be motivated and demonstrate an ability to facilitate exceptional patient experience as well as provide robust leadership to the midwives within the team.
The maternity department at the Royal Surrey is highly successful; it is rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, has achieved Gold Accreditation under the Unicef Baby Friendly Initiative and has achieved all 10 safety actions as a part of NHS Resolution’s CNST scheme. The maternity department prides itself on the high quality care it provides to women and families; this is achieved by focusing on innovation, quality improvement and staff health and wellbeing.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Degree in relevant subject
- Mentorship qualification
- Car driver
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate experience in community midwifery
- Ability to demonstrate experience in the continuity models of care
- Ability to demonstrate experience in intrapartum care
- Leading elements of service provision and supporting of staff
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Evidence of managing people
- Demonstrable achievement in changing clinical practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tanya Ashton
- Job title
- Matron
- Telephone number
- 01483 571122
- Additional information
Please contact Matron Tanya Ashton x 4708 for further information on 01483 571122
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