Experience

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  Harrogate and district nhs foundation trust

  Aug 1999 - Mar 2010

  Management of staff, resources, budget ensuring quality and efficiency

  • Ante/Post Natal Ward Manager

    Sept 2007 - Mar 2010

  • Delivery Suite Coordinator

    Aug 1999 - Sept 2007
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  Hdft

  Mar 2010 - May 2012

  Delivery suite manager

  Day to day operational management of Delivery Suite with the support of a team of Band 7 Delivery Suite Coordinators.Management of rosters, appraisals, budget,supplies, pharmacy to enable a well managed, safe service.Promotion of normality and working with the HoM/ Matron/ clinical Lead to work towards a reduction in the Caesarean rate.Dissemination of learning from clinical incidents working closely with the Risk Management Midwife and the Trust Cooperate Team.Involvement in the MDT team case review enabling lessons to be learnt in practice and promoting multidisciplinary working.Working with the maternity dashboard to understand trends in care and using the data to enable root cause analysis, audits and change n practice.Offering birth and beyond meetings with women and their families to enable the service to listen to our service users and change practice accordingly. Involvement in conciliation meetings and complaints. Engagement with women and enhancing patient experience was a large part of the role alongside the promotion of patient safety. Show less

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  Nhs

  May 2012 - Mar 2016

  Queen elizabeth nhs foundation trust

  Lead Midwife for Delivery Suite/ Matron for Maternity Inpatients.Responsible for approximately 80 registered/unregistered staff.Part of the Senior Team responsible in achieving CNST Level 2Priorities in governance, safety and patient experience. Governance is an integral aspect of the role and I covered for this alongside my substantive post during a period of extended absence of the Risk and Governance Lead for Maternity.Network with the CCG and involved in progressing the service forward with the West Norfolk Alliance.External CQC reviews within NHS Acute Trusts within the East of England, both within Maternity and acute Trust services.Sound operational management/ experience and now consolidating skills to envelop a more strategic approach.I regularly deputise for the Head of Midwifery and am part of the Senior Management Team on Call rota for the Trust, providing support to the site team, with respect to patient quality/ experience/ safety concerns out of hours, an essential requisite post the Francis Enquiry. Show less

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  United lincolnshire hospitals nhs trust

  Mar 2016 - Mar 2019

  To support the Head of Midwifery whilst a Trust wide divisional review took place. New Divisional Structure and Trust Operatimg Model consultation led by the COO Managing outpatients and inpatients across all site and satellite clinics.This is a new position and is an opportunity working in collaboration with the MDT and Business Unit to embrace and develop the ambulatory service within the Trust.Working closely with maternity services in particular around early pregnancy loss with the EPAU service and care on the Gynaecology Wards and ToP Service. Part of the maternity on call rota and managed by the HoM.

  • Interim Deputy Head of Midwifery

    Oct 2018 - Mar 2019

  • Matron for Gynaecolgy - all sites

    Mar 2016 - Mar 2019
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  South tees hospitals nhs foundation trust

  Apr 2019 - Mar 2021

  Associate director of nursing urgent and emergency care

  An opportunity to broaden my mindet and seek out further challenges.The Urgent and Emergency Care Centre incorporates five directorates and the operational responsibility for the Friarage Hospital at North Allerton which covers an extensive geographical location.We are responsible for the Emergency Department alongside the Acute Medical Model to include assessment, ambulatory short stay and the frail elderly. Our centre also includes Critical Care, Theatres and Anaesthetics, Patient Flow and the Hospital at Night Team.We are both a Tertiary and Major Trauma Centre. Show less

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  York and scarborough teaching hospitals nhs foundation trust

  Apr 2021 - now

  An opportunity for promotion and to work back within Women's and Children's Services. Overall responsibility for maternity, gynaecology, children's, neonates and sexual health, working as part of the senior triumvarate with the Care Group Director and Associate Chief Operating Officer. Line manage the HoM/HoN/Lead Nurse for Sexual Health.

  • Associate Chief Nurse

    Apr 2021 - now

  • Associate Chief Nurse

    Apr 2021 - Sept 2022
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  York and scarborough nhs foundation trust

  Sept 2022 - Aug 2023

  Interim director of midwifery

  An opportunity to provide support to the maternity services whilst reviewing the maternity leadership structure in alignment with the RCM Manifesto. Supporting MSSP and CQC Improvement work as part of a wholesale improvement journey.