Duty Manager – Maternity

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Full time
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are seeking a Duty Manager in our Womens and Childrens department. You will be proactive in reviewing the capacity within the unit and supporting the midwives in effective and efficient discharge, ensuring staffing levels are appropriate to provide a safe service.

Provide leadership to midwifery and non-midwifery staff, ensuring effective management of the daily activity and throughout maternity services. This will result in high standards of midwifery care, reduction in length of stay and responsiveness to individualised needs, thus increasing client satisfaction.

Main duties of the job This role will also support the Matrons and Team Leaders in sickness reviews ensuring return to works are undertaken and any escalation required in relation to this undertaken.

You will be an effective ambassador for the trust, be credible and knowledgeable with the confidence and interpersonal skills to support staff at all levels across maternity services and the wider organisation. The post holder will have knowledge in improvement methodology and have a proactive 'can do' approach, be highly motivated and confident in managing challenging and changing workloads. The post holder will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and will bring a strong patient centred service approach to their role.

This is a new post, which will require a high level of initiative and resourcefulness to develop relationships and introduce systems and processes, including data analysis.

About us With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we can now do more and go further in delivering health services to our local communities. Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

Patients will experience improved care as well as fewer delays and cancellations. We are able to provide more once-in-a-lifetime specialist care region-wide. With our new trust size will come more opportunities for development, research, networking and innovation.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Job description Job responsibilities Please refer to the full JD for more information on this role. We look forward to receiving your application.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential Educated to degree level with specialist knowledge of patient quality gained through experience or education. Demonstrable Post Registration Practice and relevant competencies. Registered Midwife with current registration. Mentorship module/ENB 997/NIPS.

Knowledge and Experience Essential Demonstrable Post Registration Practice and relevant competencies. Evidence of previously working in leadership/management. Evidence of clinical and managerial experience and knowledge acquired through CPD.

Communication Skills Essential Well developed interpersonal skills with the ability to work with a range of professionals. Ability to make decisions and solve complex problems. Excellent leadership, influential, motivational and communication skills. Excellent abilities in concise and accurate report writing and presentation of information. Competent in using Microsoft Office software and the internet for the purpose of researching, monitoring and communicating as well as producing reports. Ability to manage own workload and support team at times of high activity. Teaching and presentation skills.

Personal and People Development Essential Commitment to continuous improvement activities. Occasional flexibility to work outside of normal office hours (eg to attend meetings with Divisional representatives). Work to deadlines whilst maintaining a high standard. Methodical, systematic approach to work with attention to detail.

Employer details Employer name Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Address Basildon Nethermayne Basildon SS16 5NL Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply. 390-WAC-BA-7208 #J-18808-Ljbffr

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