Labour Ward Coordinator
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
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| Salary: | £49,387 to £56,515 a year |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | Durham, DH1 5TW |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 29 Oct 2026 |
| Closing date: | 12 Nov 2026 |
Summary
Key responsibilities include: Co-ordinating the day-to-day activity of the Labour Ward, ensuring resources, staffing levels, and skill mix are aligned to clinical demand and acuity. Providing clinical leadership and expert support to the multidisciplinary team, promoting high standards of evidence-based maternity care. Maintaining oversight of patient flow throughout the maternity service, facilitating timely admissions, transfers, and discharges to ensure safe and effective care delivery. Supporting the operational management of the Pregnancy Assessment Unit and Ante/Postnatal Ward during out-of-hours periods, ensuring safe staffing and service provision across all areas. Escalating capacity, staffing, and clinical safety concerns in line with local escalation policies and contributing to effective risk management. Acting as a professional role model, promoting a positive culture of teamwork, inclusion, and continuous improvement. Supporting and supervising midwives, newly qualified midwives, maternity support workers, and student midwives, fostering professional development and learning. Working in partnership with obstetric, anaesthetic, neonatal, and wider multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure coordinated and personalised care. Contributing to service development, quality improvement initiatives, clinical governance activities, and the implementation of national and local maternity standards. The Labour Ward Co-ordinator is a senior clinical leadership role responsible for overseeing the safe, effective, and efficient running of the Labour Ward on a shift-by-shift basis. The post holder will coordinate maternity services, manage workload and acuity, and support the multidisciplinary team to ensure women, birthing people, babies, and families receive high-quality, personalised care. The post holder will have some responsibility for a group of midwives and maternity support workers for appraisal and development