Job summary
The Matron for Maternity Governance is an integral leadership role in maternity services. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced midwife who is passionate about enhancing safety and outcomes for mothers and babies.
The post holder working in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary governance team will have responsibility for operational management of clinical governance and risk management processes to provide assurance in the safe working and effective practice within the maternity department. A proactive approach to risk management and the patient safety agenda will support the embedding of high clinical standards alongside quality improvement initiatives to reduce harm and identify risks related to morbidity and mortality.
Main duties of the job
Provide effective leadership and management skills which promote a proactive approach to clinical governance and risk management.
Lead on risk management including investigating and taking corrective actions, referring and escalating as appropriate in collaboration with the Trust corporate Governance team.
Initiate strategies to ensure departmental and clinical governance requirements are met and ensure delivery of a high quality service.
To understand all national initiatives and assist in the implementation in order to influence patient care and service delivery.
Promote best practice.
To work with maternity and neonatal services in meeting statutory requirements and clinical governance objectives for external assessment such as CNST.
Collect and coordinate all data required to be sent on behalf of the trust to external agencies.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a specific detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a specific detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RM with current NMC registration
- First Degree Masters or working towards Management / Leadership Qualification
- Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent
- Root cause analysis training
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a senior midwifery post at Band 7 or above
- Proven experience of service development and delivery and business planning
- Experience in change management
- Experience in leading projects
- Experience in ensuring robust Clinical Governance strategy is in place in Women's Services
- Speciality specific knowledge including labour ward competencies, in high and low risk midwifery
- Experience in standard setting and monitoring
- Able to demonstrate in depth knowledge and understanding of NHS Strategy and DOH initiatives
- Awareness of current midwifery research and consequences to practice
- Aware of relevant government documents
- Broad knowledge of legislation affecting the healthcare economy
- Advanced knowledge of IT systems at operational level
- Knowledge of NMC policies, standards and guidelines
- Able to critique evidence and apply to practice
- Knowledge to apply Health and Safety legislation in the workplace
- Knowledge to apply all aspects of clinical governance
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RM with current NMC registration
- First Degree Masters or working towards Management / Leadership Qualification
- Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent
- Root cause analysis training
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in a senior midwifery post at Band 7 or above
- Proven experience of service development and delivery and business planning
- Experience in change management
- Experience in leading projects
- Experience in ensuring robust Clinical Governance strategy is in place in Women's Services
- Speciality specific knowledge including labour ward competencies, in high and low risk midwifery
- Experience in standard setting and monitoring
- Able to demonstrate in depth knowledge and understanding of NHS Strategy and DOH initiatives
- Awareness of current midwifery research and consequences to practice
- Aware of relevant government documents
- Broad knowledge of legislation affecting the healthcare economy
- Advanced knowledge of IT systems at operational level
- Knowledge of NMC policies, standards and guidelines
- Able to critique evidence and apply to practice
- Knowledge to apply Health and Safety legislation in the workplace
- Knowledge to apply all aspects of clinical governance
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
