Band 8b Lead Midwife- Quality Governance Assurance and Compliance

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

We are one of the largest maternity units in the Midlands, delivering approximately 8,400 births annually to a diverse population. Our dedicated team includes over 400 midwives, 34 consultants, and a multi-professional staff of anaesthetists, sonographers, and neonatal experts

The post holder will lead the multi-disciplinary governance team, ensuring the effective implementation of a comprehensive and systematic approach to clinical governance. They must understand the principles of safety, quality assurance, and the governance framework pertinent to maternity services, with the ability to analyse national standards and develop action plans. Knowledge of relevant quality improvement and assurance principles is essential.

Close working and liaison with multidisciplinary professionals to ensure triangulation of information and intelligence across the service, division, and trust will be fundamental to support our teams and deliver our best service in a busy multi-site maternity service.

As an exceptional leader with in-depth knowledge of governance, assurance mechanisms, and national standards, you will inspire confidence and innovation among our incredible workforce. The applicant will have a passion for governance and gold standard care within maternity services and be able to provide statutory and regulatory assurance regarding the quality and safety of the care we deliver.

Main duties of the job

The primary aim of the role is to provide assurance that the maternity services have established guidelines, processes and procedures that facilitates ongoing plan for consistent compliance with all locally and nationally agreed quality standards based on clinical governance framework. These are in the domains of clinical audit, effectiveness, risk management, education, training and research. The post holder will:

*Lead on monitoring standards of a range of clinical governance, clinical effectiveness, and patient safety activity, in liaison with other multidisciplinary professionals and functional heads within the Maternity and Quality and Safety Team with direct line management of these teams across all sites. Work closely with the Head of Midwifery and Nursing, the Clinical Delivery Group triumvirate, and the Trust Governance Team.

*Work in partnership with the senior obstetric and midwifery team to assist in driving forward the wider Maternity leadership, operational, governance and strategic agendas.

The role will provide oversight of the strategic and operational delivery of all aspects of quality assurance pertinent to the business of clinical governance in maternity that is safety centric, as well as demonstrating that good quality governance is understood and practised across all professional groups within the maternity service.

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.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Date posted

19 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£58,972 to £68,525 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

304-54279YS

Job locations

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

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

* Registered Midwife
* Master's level degree in related healthcare discipline or substantial experiential equivalence.
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Recognised qualification in the field of quality assurance, compliance and governance or relevant experience

Experience

Essential

* Understanding of principles of safety, quality assurance and governance framework pertinent to maternity services.
* Ability to analyse national standards and develop an action plan.
* Knowledge of relevant Quality Improvement and assurance principles.
* Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience.
* Evidence of multidisciplinary working.
* Lead on formulation, dissemination and implementation of policies and guidelines.
* Service development experience, delivering clinical quality improvements and successful service change.
* Ability to produce high quality Specialist knowledge in clinical governance and risk management Evidence of clinical research Involvement in committees external to the Trust.
* Experience in both hospital and community setting.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

* Registered Midwife
* Master's level degree in related healthcare discipline or substantial experiential equivalence.
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Recognised qualification in the field of quality assurance, compliance and governance or relevant experience

Experience

Essential

* Understanding of principles of safety, quality assurance and governance framework pertinent to maternity services.
* Ability to analyse national standards and develop an action plan.
* Knowledge of relevant Quality Improvement and assurance principles.
* Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience.
* Evidence of multidisciplinary working.
* Lead on formulation, dissemination and implementation of policies and guidelines.
* Service development experience, delivering clinical quality improvements and successful service change.
* Ability to produce high quality Specialist knowledge in clinical governance and risk management Evidence of clinical research Involvement in committees external to the Trust.
* Experience in both hospital and community setting.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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