Triage Midwifery Manager

Mid Yorkshire Teaching Trust is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Triage Midwifery Manager, who has a passion for clinical excellence and the leadership to provide outstanding care.

Approximately 5,400 women annually birth with Mid Yorkshire. We offer antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal services across the Wakefield District and North Kirklees. Birth options include:

• Home births
• Freestanding Birth Centre at Dewsbury District Hospital
• Alongside Birth Centre
• Consultant-Led Delivery Suite and Triage in Wakefield
• Antenatal clinic and Day Units on all 3 sites

The team is committed to collaborating with the Local Maternity Neonatal System, Maternity Voices Partnership, and community partners to provide excellence in maternity care.

The unit has successfully implemented the Birmingham Symptom Specific Obstetric Triage System, enabling midwives to prioritise care efficiently.

The managerial role is 0.6 WTE working office hours to ensure maximum daytime presence (Monday to Friday) and be part of the managerial on-call rota.

We're seeking an experienced midwife with:

• A passion for delivering high-quality care.
• Strong clinical decision-making and leadership skills.
• A proactive, collaborative approach to service improvement.

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact on maternity, please contact us.

Apply now to be part of a dynamic and supportive team.

Please contact Matron Sarah Harwood, .

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will provide professional leadership and operational management for the Triage department, ensuring its effective 24/7 operation while fostering a positive risk culture that prioritises the safety of women, families, and staff.

They will support strategic direction, drive continuous service improvement, align with clinical governance, and uphold excellence in midwifery practice in compliance with NMC and Department of Health standards.

They will collaborate with risk management teams and ensure the maintenance of a safe, high-quality environment through effective leadership, staff development, and data oversight.

The successful candidate will monitor professional practice within the clinical area in order to provide the highest standard of care, developing and strengthening Midwifery roles where appropriate.

Provide midwifery leadership, advice, and support to midwives employed within the Trust, and provide a clinical presence in the Triage department and be responsible for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care, and the setting of standards.

About us

We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings, and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.

We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful, and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.

We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently.

We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.

We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.

Job responsibilities

To ensure the Triage department runs effectively and smoothly 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. To create an environment that ensures a positive risk culture that promotes the safety of women and their families.

To provide professional and managerial leadership, support, and direction for all staff employed within the Triage department.

To delegate lead roles to the core team and to be responsible for ensuring these roles are supported and carried out effectively.

To oversee continual improvement of the service in response to National directives in line with Clinical Governance principles and continuous quality improvements of patient care.

Contribute to strategic direction, business planning, project work, and commissioning of services.

To provide Midwifery leadership, advice, and support to all Midwives employed within the Trust, ensuring excellence in practice within the statute as promulgated by the NMC and Department of Health.

To work in partnership with the Trust Risk Management Team.

To maintain, manage, and develop a safe environment for staff, patients, and visitors and adhere to the Trust Risk Management Policy.

To ensure accurate timely data is collected, by overseeing the databases, and staff training requirements for these.

Staff Management

Ensure that the area has a robust training programme for staff and that Mandatory requirements are met.

Ensure all staff have an annual appraisal in line with Trust policy.

Participate in developing multidisciplinary/mandatory training sessions, and ensure trainers are available for these.

To actively manage attendance of all staff.

To actively participate in the recruitment and retention of staff promoting a dynamic working environment.

To teach, educate, and develop groups of staff to give support and professional advice and guidance on policy or service changes.

To meet with the patients and their families to give advice on professional issues.

To support and offer guidance to the multidisciplinary team involved in adverse health care events.

To ensure staff have valid registration documents PREP and remain professionally credible.

Person Specification Experience

• Substantial proven post-registration experience in all areas.
• Professional midwifery.
• Advocate.

Skills and Abilities

• Develop and maintain positive working relationships.
• Lead, influence, and motivate others.
• Incorporate high-quality evidence in women-centred care.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the current public health agenda.
• Research and audit awareness.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife.
• Evidence of ongoing Professional development.
• Evidence of competency in teaching and assessing.
• Evidence of management training.
• First level degree or evidence of working towards a degree.
• Evidence of post-graduate study in clinically related subject management related subject.

Knowledge and Awareness

• Demonstrate a high level of personal and professional autonomy and an understanding of professional accountability.
• Lead, influence, and motivate others.
• Influence and lead service development and delivery.
• Function and contribute effectively to Trust-wide initiatives.
• Teaching and presentation skills.

Personal Attributes

• Effective interpersonal skills.
• Ability to deal with difficult situations.
• Energetic.
• Creative.
• Flexible.
• Visionary.
• Women focused approach to care and services.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Displays professional integrity and credibility.
• Ability to network within the Trust and externally.

Other Factors

• Able to access all Trust sites.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£46,148 to £52,809 a year pro rata part-time.