Care Pathway / Flow Coordinator Women and Children’s Health

Job overview

We are proud of our Maternity Service at Whipps Cross hospital. We are a supportive and friendly team dedicated to delivering the highest standard of care to our service users. We serve a diverse community in East London.

We are looking for an enthusiastic motivated midwife who has a passion foe woman centred care and who can provide on a daily basis effective management of flow through the maternity unit resulting in high standards of midwifery care, reduction in length of stay and will be responsive to individualised needs and increasing client satisfaction

Main duties of the job

Provide leadership to midwifery and non-midwifery staff, ensuring effective management of the daily activity and through put within the maternity unit. This will result in high standards of midwifery care, reduction in length of stay and will be responsive to individualised needs, thus increasing client satisfaction.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

Registered Midwife

Educated to degree level

Practice supervisor/Assessor

Desirable criteria

Masters qualification or relevant masters level of experience in specilist areas

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

Has relevant post registration experience.

Experience of working as a senior band 6 midwife role

Practice development or management of projects or initiatives

Experience in people management and improving the patient experience

Experience of change management/implementation of practice change

Demonstrated experience of delivering and co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments

Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to work across professional boundaries

Evidence of ability to motivate and develop multi-professional teams

Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy

Advanced IT skills. Ability to demonstrate the required expertise associated with a senior midwife role

Good team worker ability, autonomous practitioner

Proven oral and written Communication skills

Understanding of current NHS issues and initiatives

Desirable criteria

Proven teaching and assessing skills. Research to practice

Communication

Essential criteria

Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team

Ability to communicate effectively at all levels across the Department

Ability communicates effectively, both written and verbally

Ability to self-reflect, carry out tasks of own job and identify what s/he needs to learn to able to do current job better