Job summary
Due to promotion, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and forward thinking individual.
Are you a motivated midwife with great organisational skills and experience of working in Governance?
Are you ready to support and coordinate maternity services to ensure that all local and national safety standards and requirements are met?
Can you provide the link between governance and training to ensure learning from service user experience is directly translated into the service training syllabus?
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust has a busy maternity unit with around 3600 births per year. The maternity, perinatal, and women's health service strive for excellence, with quality improvement service development, and user-experience being at the forefront of our journey to excellence. We are a strong partnership with our Local Maternity and Neonatal System and regional perinatal team and fully believe in collaborative working to drive services forward.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will assist the Child Health and Women's Health Service (CHaWS) quadrumvirate in the continued development of the professional agenda to achieve consistency of practice, high standards of care and innovation with a strong patient safety focus. Leading the service in all areas of clinical governance and risk management alongside the team, the post holder will ensure quality assurance, achieving safety and clinical governance objectives within Maternity and Women's Health services.
The post holder will provide the key link between Maternity services and the Corporate Governance team.
About us
Our Organisation
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
Everyday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
Creative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification for the full job details. This is available to download at any time.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification for the full job details. This is available to download at any time.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Evidence of post registration study
- Educated, or working towards, to the Master's degree level or equivalent experience in Nursing and Midwifery
- Attended a clinical leadership programme
- Incident Investigation/ Patient Safety Investigation Training
Desirable
- Registered Nurse
- Training in risk assessment
- Experience in a similar previous role
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Clinical experience at a senior midwifery post (Band 8a and above)
- Experience in risk management process in relation to incidents
- Experience of working within a team and alone under minimal supervision
- Knowledge of the components of governance, risk management, and assurance function; current NHS national policies, standards, requirements and directions that relate to measuring and improving the quality and safety of patient care.
- Demonstrates commitment to improving the quality of patient care
Desirable
- Ward manager or deputy experience
- Active involvement in audit cycle
- Involvement in investigations regarding complaints and staff performance issues and other HR issues
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Evidence of post registration study
- Educated, or working towards, to the Master's degree level or equivalent experience in Nursing and Midwifery
- Attended a clinical leadership programme
- Incident Investigation/ Patient Safety Investigation Training
Desirable
- Registered Nurse
- Training in risk assessment
- Experience in a similar previous role
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Clinical experience at a senior midwifery post (Band 8a and above)
- Experience in risk management process in relation to incidents
- Experience of working within a team and alone under minimal supervision
- Knowledge of the components of governance, risk management, and assurance function; current NHS national policies, standards, requirements and directions that relate to measuring and improving the quality and safety of patient care.
- Demonstrates commitment to improving the quality of patient care
Desirable
- Ward manager or deputy experience
- Active involvement in audit cycle
- Involvement in investigations regarding complaints and staff performance issues and other HR issues
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).
Employer details
Employer name
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Address
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHST Trust
Hamstel Road
Harlow
CM20 1QX
Employer's website
https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
