Job summary
An exciting opportunity has come up for a senior midwife to join our well established midwifery team across both our sites.
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.
Main duties of the job
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 on both sites.
- Work closely with the Deputy Directors of Midwifery and Nursing, the Divisional triumvirate and the Trust Governance Team.
- Maintain strong working relationships with clinical colleagues.
- Ensure the triangulation of information and intelligence from across the Service, the division and the Trust, in order to provide leadership and direction in relation to Quality Governance, Effectiveness and Quality Improvements.
- Work in partnership with the senior obstetric and midwifery team to assist in driving forward the wider Maternity leadership, operational and strategic agendas.
About us
Proud of our workforce
o Our 7,500 staff are recruited from local communities and around the worldo Our staff rate us second among acute trusts in London as a place to worko Despite challenges in the NHS, our low staff vacancy rate remains significantly better than the national averageo We are passionate about the health and wellbeing of our staff with a huge support offer, including our nationally-recognised free back-up care scheme and Timewise accreditation as a flexible employero We love to develop our people, offering a range of development programmes and apprenticeships, with our healthcare support worker apprentices winning Apprentice of the Year for two years runningo We offer a fantastic range of salary sacrifice schemes, from season ticket loans, bicycles and vehicles, to gym memberships, home electronics and holidays
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
Professional
- Promote and work within the NMC Code of Conduct, Trust Policies and Professional guidelines.
- Promote evidence based practice.
- Keep professionally updated to ensure the provision of a quality service and to meet the requirements of the professional code of practice and service provision, e.g. NMC standards.
- Critically reflect on own performance through peer / team, network, clinical supervision and appraisal.
- Promote and lead respective activity e.g. clinical supervision, journal clubs etc., to enhance development.
- Delegate tasks and activities to a range of team members ensuring that the staff has the appropriate support to take on projects.
- Represent the service and contribute at the relevant Trust and Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) meetings in conjunction with the Deputy Directors of Midwifery, Gynaecology and Neonates and Director of Midwifery and Nursing.
Clinical
- Uphold a high clinical profile and take responsibility for maintaining own clinical competence with a relevant knowledge base.
- Be responsive to changing needs within the practice area in relation to local and national strategic requirements within the maternity service.
- Provide expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues and external sources.
- Provide expert advanced clinical practice and the ability to practice autonomously.
- Work with clinical colleagues to identify and develop services and ensure delivery of quality care.
- Be an effective change agent for members of the maternity staff.
- Act as an advocate for women.
Management
- Provide line management to the maternity quality and safety team (MQAS) manager and the wider team.
- Ensure training is up to date and each team member receives a high quality performance and development review each year.
- Effectively manage the allocated budget ensuring that any actual or predicted overspends are reported and investigated. You will also be expected to deliver savings and efficiencies in line with the trustsobjectives.
- To support nursing, midwifery and other staff to ensure that where possible complaints are resolved at an informal stage.
- To ensure that collaborative links are made with other professional groups both within and outside the organisation, and to promote inter-departmental and inter-professional relations.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
Professional
- Promote and work within the NMC Code of Conduct, Trust Policies and Professional guidelines.
- Promote evidence based practice.
- Keep professionally updated to ensure the provision of a quality service and to meet the requirements of the professional code of practice and service provision, e.g. NMC standards.
- Critically reflect on own performance through peer / team, network, clinical supervision and appraisal.
- Promote and lead respective activity e.g. clinical supervision, journal clubs etc., to enhance development.
- Delegate tasks and activities to a range of team members ensuring that the staff has the appropriate support to take on projects.
- Represent the service and contribute at the relevant Trust and Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) meetings in conjunction with the Deputy Directors of Midwifery, Gynaecology and Neonates and Director of Midwifery and Nursing.
Clinical
- Uphold a high clinical profile and take responsibility for maintaining own clinical competence with a relevant knowledge base.
- Be responsive to changing needs within the practice area in relation to local and national strategic requirements within the maternity service.
- Provide expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues and external sources.
- Provide expert advanced clinical practice and the ability to practice autonomously.
- Work with clinical colleagues to identify and develop services and ensure delivery of quality care.
- Be an effective change agent for members of the maternity staff.
- Act as an advocate for women.
Management
- Provide line management to the maternity quality and safety team (MQAS) manager and the wider team.
- Ensure training is up to date and each team member receives a high quality performance and development review each year.
- Effectively manage the allocated budget ensuring that any actual or predicted overspends are reported and investigated. You will also be expected to deliver savings and efficiencies in line with the trustsobjectives.
- To support nursing, midwifery and other staff to ensure that where possible complaints are resolved at an informal stage.
- To ensure that collaborative links are made with other professional groups both within and outside the organisation, and to promote inter-departmental and inter-professional relations.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Masters 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
Desirable
- Recognised Leadership/management qualification
- Trained in Root Cause Analysis with ability to analyse aggregated management systems
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.
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Up to date and evidence based knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
- Change management skills
- Good level of skills in Microsoft Word and Excel
- Problem solving and analytical skills relating to the identification and assessment of evidence required to support decision making
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Proven leadership skills
- Presenting and teaching skills
- Able to teach and assess in the clinical area
- Ability to plan and organise a broad range of complex activities , formulate and adjust plans and present to a multidisciplinary staff group
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Masters 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
Desirable
- Recognised Leadership/management qualification
- Trained in Root Cause Analysis with ability to analyse aggregated management systems
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.
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Up to date and evidence based knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
- Change management skills
- Good level of skills in Microsoft Word and Excel
- Problem solving and analytical skills relating to the identification and assessment of evidence required to support decision making
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Proven leadership skills
- Presenting and teaching skills
- Able to teach and assess in the clinical area
- Ability to plan and organise a broad range of complex activities , formulate and adjust plans and present to a multidisciplinary staff group
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).