Patient Safety Midwife

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Patient Safety Midwife at UHL to cover Maternity Leave.

Do you have at significant band 6 experience?

Are you interested in patient safety, risk management and promoting a positive culture of learning? If so, then this is the post for you. This role will enable to you to develop professionally by gaining experience and insight into risk management policies and processes and learning how to evaluate and grade clinical incidents, ensure incidents are reviewed in a timely manner and participate in management activities.

You will be responsible for reviewing clinical and non-clinical incidents within maternity which have been submitted via the Trust's incident reporting system; appraising the incidents, identifying and investigating issues, themes or trends that may arise and developing action plans if required. Other aspects of the role include compiling reports for Directorate meetings, supporting the Clinical Governance Lead in maintaining action logs and the risk register, representing the maternity patient safety team as required and partaking in audit and guideline development.

The role requires a reasonable amount of previous clinical experience, IT skills, ability to communicate to members of the team and basic report writing skills.

Main duties of the job

You will be required to participate within and co-ordinate the risk management (clinical and non-clinical) processes for the maternity services.

You will be required to assist and stand in for the clinical governance manager if required.

You will be responsible for participating in co-ordinating and investigating reported incidents within maternity services/ delegating and overseeing the investigation where appropriate.

You will be required to provide feedback to staff by way of quarterly, annual and ad-hoc risk reports and briefings as well as preparing documentation and evidence for relevant risk and patient safety meetings.

You will monitor and report the progress of implementation of action plans arising from incidents, complaints and claims and identify gaps in practice related to the recommendations from clinical risk incidents and serious untoward incidents.

You will also participate in the Complaints process and support the midwifery, medical, nursing, and any other staff with timely responses to complaints within the LGT Complaints Procedure if necessary.

The successful applicant will also be involved in the implementation of the PSIRF strategy as per the plan laid out by the Trust. A familiarity with the PSIRF principles would therefore be useful.

About us

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Employer details

Employer name

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Address

University Hospital Lewisham

Lewisham High Street

London

SE13 6LH

Employer's website

https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Address

University Hospital Lewisham

Lewisham High Street

London

SE13 6LH

Employer's website

https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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