Job summary
Are you a dynamic and forward-thinking midwife with a passion for driving safe, high-quality maternity and neonatal services? Do you thrive in a culture of continuous learning and collaborative improvement? This is an exciting opportunity to take on a pivotal leadership role where your expertise and values will directly shape safer, more responsive care for women, birthing people, babies, and families.
As Patient Safety Lead for Maternity and Neonatal Services, you will be at the forefront of delivering meaningful change. Leading a dedicated team, you will be accountable for implementing and sustaining service improvements generated through patient safety learning and incident response. You will take a lead role in the continued application and embedding of the NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), ensuring it becomes a foundation for learning and improvement.
You will actively engage with families, ensuring their experiences are central to how services evolve, and you will champion opportunities for co-production, working collaboratively with service users and staff to shape meaningful and sustainable improvements. A critical part of your role will be the development of robust and transparent governance pathways that support learning, accountability, and improvement across maternity and neonatal services.
Main duties of the job
- Lead the perinatal service in delivery of the Patent Safety Incident Response framework and ensure delivery on the key components of patient safety, report any variance from the plan, and recommend and implement corrective action in liaison with the Divisional Quadrumvirate.
- Implement and monitor risk management and clinical policies to ensure their effectiveness. Review and amend local policies and procedures where required.
- Ensure that risk registers are in use and up to date across the service and appropriately escalated to the corporate risk register as necessary.
- . In conjunction with the Senior Perinatal team, ensure the delivery of the CQC framework and all quality assurance agendas in and across the perinatal service
About us
This is a role for a compassionate, values-led leader who is committed to driving a strong safety culture, and who brings energy, insight, and a proactive approach to patient safety.
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:
Service We will put our patients first
Teamwork We will work together
Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service
Respect We will act with integrity
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Identify and ensure appropriate responses to recommendations from national and regional bodies are reported to relevant Governance Group and ensure that appropriate plans are made to address these, i.e. NICE, the Healthcare Commission, Department of Health, National Confidential Enquiries, Royal Colleges etc. Maintain records of responses and actions taken.
- Work with the Matrons to ensure that quality assurance processes are in place to meet Trust wide, regional and national recommendations across relevant areas in the service.
- Ensure that perinatal records are audited and maintained and managed within current national and local guidance.
- Ensure there are appropriate systems in place on the reporting, management and investigation of clinical incidents, in line with The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework. Ensure that learning is shared throughout the Division/wider organisation.
- Ensure accurate data is provided to inform the maternity dashboards both locally, regionally and nationally.
- . Be responsible for supporting the clinical audit department, ensuring appropriate audits are undertaken as outlined in the audit programme.
- Develop robust processes to ensure that lessons learned/recommendations from incidents and complaints are disseminated to all relevant staff in a timely manner and embedded in practice
- Ensure that robust and comprehensive governance arrangements exist within the service and implementing information governance requirements and compliance with Equality Schemes.
- Oversee the timely completion of externally required reporting including Perinatal Mortality Tool, MBRRACE, Each Baby Counts, MNSI etc.
- . Provide leadership and expert advice on Patient Safety coordinate all aspects of Governance across the maternity service, ensuring integration of the Divisional Quality objectives with that of the professional Clinical Governance objectives.
For further details please see attached Job Description
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Identify and ensure appropriate responses to recommendations from national and regional bodies are reported to relevant Governance Group and ensure that appropriate plans are made to address these, i.e. NICE, the Healthcare Commission, Department of Health, National Confidential Enquiries, Royal Colleges etc. Maintain records of responses and actions taken.
- Work with the Matrons to ensure that quality assurance processes are in place to meet Trust wide, regional and national recommendations across relevant areas in the service.
- Ensure that perinatal records are audited and maintained and managed within current national and local guidance.
- Ensure there are appropriate systems in place on the reporting, management and investigation of clinical incidents, in line with The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework. Ensure that learning is shared throughout the Division/wider organisation.
- Ensure accurate data is provided to inform the maternity dashboards both locally, regionally and nationally.
- . Be responsible for supporting the clinical audit department, ensuring appropriate audits are undertaken as outlined in the audit programme.
- Develop robust processes to ensure that lessons learned/recommendations from incidents and complaints are disseminated to all relevant staff in a timely manner and embedded in practice
- Ensure that robust and comprehensive governance arrangements exist within the service and implementing information governance requirements and compliance with Equality Schemes.
- Oversee the timely completion of externally required reporting including Perinatal Mortality Tool, MBRRACE, Each Baby Counts, MNSI etc.
- . Provide leadership and expert advice on Patient Safety coordinate all aspects of Governance across the maternity service, ensuring integration of the Divisional Quality objectives with that of the professional Clinical Governance objectives.
For further details please see attached Job Description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife (Active NMC Registration)
- Educated to Masters level qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Management qualification
- Quality improvement training
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Demonstrable knowledge of clinical risk and governance
- Evidence of leading innovation in practice
- Skills in working with a range of professionals across differing organisations and boundaries
- Ability to work in a pressured environment and balance competing priorities of services and staff
- Ability to deliver sustained quality improvement
- Demonstrated skills in addressing complex problems on a day to day basis
Desirable
- Continued professional development including a patient safety focus
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife (Active NMC Registration)
- Educated to Masters level qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Management qualification
- Quality improvement training
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Demonstrable knowledge of clinical risk and governance
- Evidence of leading innovation in practice
- Skills in working with a range of professionals across differing organisations and boundaries
- Ability to work in a pressured environment and balance competing priorities of services and staff
- Ability to deliver sustained quality improvement
- Demonstrated skills in addressing complex problems on a day to day basis
Desirable
- Continued professional development including a patient safety focus
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).
