Job overview

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Join Our Team as a Delivery Suite Coordinator at Hereford County Hospital!

Are you an enthusiastic and motivated Midwife looking to take the next step in your career? We're thrilled to offer an exciting opportunity to join our dedicated team on the Delivery Suite as a Delivery Suite Coordinator. This is your chance to shine as an autonomous practitioner, taking responsibility for coordinating exceptional care within our busy Delivery Suite.

As a Delivery Suite Coordinator, you'll be at the forefront of leading our multidisciplinary team, ensuring we provide woman-centred maternity care of the highest standard. You'll be directly involved in patient care, as well as supporting and guiding other midwives and staff. This role demands a strong awareness of clinical governance and its application, ensuring a safe clinical environment where practitioners deliver evidence-based, high-quality maternity care. You'll also contribute to research development, standard setting, and audit processes to continuously enhance our services.

We're looking for a Midwife who is:

• An autonomous practitioner with proven experience in midwifery.
• Committed to woman-centred care.
• Possesses strong clinical leadership skills.
• Dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of clinical care.
• Knowledgeable about clinical governance and its practical application.
• Eager to contribute to research, audit, and standard setting.
• An excellent communicator and team player.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate care within the Delivery Suite, taking full responsibility for its efficient and safe operation.
• Lead the multidisciplinary team in providing woman-centred maternity care, both directly with your caseload and indirectly through staff support.
• Assess, plan, and implement care for both high and low-risk women during the antenatal, intrapartum, and occasionally postnatal periods.
• Provide clinical leadership at ward level, continuously monitoring and achieving the highest standards of clinical care.
• Participate in Delivery Suite management, including supervising and mentoring learners.
• Support and lead a team in delivering evidence-based, client-centred care.
• Ensure all care adheres to Health Board policies and procedures, maintaining accurate associated records.
• Monitor and improve standards of care through clinical audit, research, supervision, practice, and teaching, utilizing resources efficiently and effectively

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.