Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 197-R-RF7334
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum plus HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Team Leader
Band 7
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
Are you looking to work in an award winning, well-supported, friendly, dynamic, culturally astute, inclusive environment that puts women/birthing people at the centre of a high standard of care? If so, come and join us.
Our latest CQC report has been published and we have maintained our good rating since 2017 and have now been awarded as outstanding for leadership, so, if you have significant post preceptorship experience and are dedicated to providing good all-round care, we are looking for a special midwife to lead and nurture one of our community teams.
We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated, enthusiastic midwife to lead one of our well-established teams on the QEW site. Using your passion for continuous development and improvement of maternity services, collaborative working, and maternity staff development you will work in collaboration and be supported by the other QEW Community team leaders.
Leading a team of midwives, a support worker and an admin clerk you will develop maternity services so that they are progressive, client centred and responsive to the needs of the local population you care for.
With a total of 12 midwifery teams providing a full range of antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care (alongside specialist midwifery care), we are a large workforce looking after a diverse population. We work well together, supporting, leading and developing services to meet the needs of women/birthing people
Main duties of the job
As a Team Leader, you will support staff with ideas and innovation.
You will provide clinical leadership whilst facilitating professional development and carrying continuing overall responsibility for the management and co-ordination of your team of midwives to ensure a high standard of woman-centered care is delivered effectively and efficiently within available resources.
You may be expected to rotate between all clinical areas, including supporting our 24-hour home birth team who currently have a home birth rate of around 2%. You may also be required, if necessary, to support the units including the Lewisham or Greenwich Birthing Centre.
You will ensure that care provided is in keeping with the unit philosophy advocated within the Women’s Health Unit Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust.
You will carry continued responsibility for the management of your caseload and team, with guidance from your Line Manager and Trust Policies and Guidelines.
This position will include On-Call and Weekend obligations.
Car driver essential.
This post is not suitable for newly qualified midwives or international midwives who have not completed their OSCE.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see JD for full description
The post holder will provide clinical leadership, facilitate professional development, and carry continuing overall responsibility for the management and co-ordination of a team of midwives or a designated clinical area to ensure a high standard of client-centred care is delivered effectively and efficiently within available resources. The post holder is expected to rotate between all clinical areas.
The post holder will ensure that care provided is in keeping with the unit philosophy advocated within the Maternity Unit Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust.
The post holder also carries continued responsibility for the management of a caseload, ward or department, with guidance from the Line Manager and Trust Policies and Guidelines.
Person specification
Education Qualification
Essential criteria
- RM
- BSc or equivalent level study. .
- ENB 997 mentorship equivalent qualification / Practice Assessor
- Recognised Management qualification/ working towards this
Desirable criteria
- 1st level degree in midwifery
Skills/Knowledge/Ability
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Demonstrate ability to challenge practice/behaviour when required
- Leadership and organisational skills demonstrating knowledge of Health Promotion and Public Health Agenda.
- Can demonstrate commitment to client centred care
- Can support women/birthing people with regard to choice and control in childbirth
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience at Band 6 level.
- Adult resuscitation – Immediate Life Support (ILS)
- Experience in leading and nurturing a team
- Resuscitation of the newborn – to required level of Trust guidelines
- Experience of evidence based practice/research
- Knowledge of multiagency working i.e. Social Services, Police etc.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of participation in research
- Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (Also)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Sonya Brown
- Job title
- Community Matron QEW
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 836 6236
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