Job summary
The post holder's focus will be to ensure a safe high quality service and outstanding patient experience to ensure a robust clinical governance and quality strategy across the maternity and outpatient gynaecology service that interfaces with key interdependencies including neonates and anaesthetics.
Provide leadership/management of the maternity governance and quality team.
Lead quality initiatives across the obstetrics and gynaecology SDU and manage a robust audit programme, ensuring ongoing evaluation of the care standards and service delivery.
Lead and participate in the co-ordination and management of clinical risk in the obstetrics and gynaecology SDU. They will take lead responsibility for working with the clinical staff to identify risks, carry out risk assessments, report risks appropriately, and ensure that necessary actions follow and learning takes place.
Lead a positive safety culture across the obstetrics and gynaecology SDU.
Ensure support and advice is provided to staff, women, and their families within the governance framework.
To provide leadership support and direction to all senior midwives and midwifery specialists regarding clinical governance and quality.
Work collaboratively with the Director of Midwifery, divisional triumvirate and key stakeholders to ensure that the SDU is well prepared for all internal and external assurance processes.
Main duties of the job
We are recruiting to a key leadership role in our maternity governance team. We are looking for an experienced midwife who is committed to delivering outstanding care, continuous quality improvement and a positive safety culture.
This is an exciting time to join the Trusts maternity service as our governance team is expanding. The post holder is a key member of the Director of Midwifery office, working in partnership with the Head of Midwifery and Consultant Midwife to lead the midwifery services and represent the Trust at local and regional level.
Working in collaboration with the obstetric and gynaecology clinical governance leads, and key stakeholders in anaesthetics and neonates, the post holder's focus is ensuring a safe high quality service and outstanding patient experience.
Key responsibilities include leadership and coordination of clinical governance and risk management processes, audit and quality improvement.
The post holder's focus will be to ensure a safe high quality service and outstanding patient experience to ensure a robust clinical governance and quality strategy across the maternity and outpatient gynaecology service that interfaces with key interdependencies including neonates and anaesthetics.
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
We're committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
Person Specification
Values
Essential
- Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships
- Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
- Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued.
- Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative
Knowledge , training, and Experience
Essential
- Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy for maternity and neonatal services
- Has a sound understanding on the requirements of Ockenden and its IEAs see figure 1 and 2
- Experience in a similar previous role in governance, assurance and compliance
Desirable
- Has worked in a NHS provider at a senior level
Role Specific Experience
Essential
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues. Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action. Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances
- Ability to deal confidentially with staff at all levels of an organisation. Well-developed interpersonal skills with the ability to work with a range of professionals
- Ability to make decisions and solve complex problems
- Advanced planning and organisational skills
- Excellent leadership, Influencing and motivational skills
- Able to negotiate and influence at an organisational level and externally with a range of stakeholders
- Excellent interpersonal skills Proficient in the use of MS Office applications: Microsoft Word, Outlook, Access, Explorer, PowerPoint and Excel
Desirable
- The ability to maintain and respect confidentiality - Information Governance, Issues of confidentiality (Data Protection, Freedom of Information Act, Caldicott)
- Excellent communication skills at all levels, confident when speaking in public and at large meetings
Personal qualities
Essential
- Commitment to continuous improvement activities
- Positive attitude toward change Commitment to staff development Occasional flexibility to work outside of normal office hours (e.g. to attend meetings with divisional representatives or meeting short term deadlines)
- Demonstrable enthusiasm and commitment to improvement focused patient safety and quality initiatives, research and its application to practice
- Resilience and ability to get the job done
- Completer finisher working to tight deadlines
- Methodical & systematic approach to work, involving close attention to detail
Person Specification
Values
Essential
- Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships
- Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
- Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued.
- Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative
Knowledge , training, and Experience
Essential
- Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy for maternity and neonatal services
- Has a sound understanding on the requirements of Ockenden and its IEAs see figure 1 and 2
- Experience in a similar previous role in governance, assurance and compliance
Desirable
- Has worked in a NHS provider at a senior level
Role Specific Experience
Essential
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues. Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action. Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances
- Ability to deal confidentially with staff at all levels of an organisation. Well-developed interpersonal skills with the ability to work with a range of professionals
- Ability to make decisions and solve complex problems
- Advanced planning and organisational skills
- Excellent leadership, Influencing and motivational skills
- Able to negotiate and influence at an organisational level and externally with a range of stakeholders
- Excellent interpersonal skills Proficient in the use of MS Office applications: Microsoft Word, Outlook, Access, Explorer, PowerPoint and Excel
Desirable
- The ability to maintain and respect confidentiality - Information Governance, Issues of confidentiality (Data Protection, Freedom of Information Act, Caldicott)
- Excellent communication skills at all levels, confident when speaking in public and at large meetings
Personal qualities
Essential
- Commitment to continuous improvement activities
- Positive attitude toward change Commitment to staff development Occasional flexibility to work outside of normal office hours (e.g. to attend meetings with divisional representatives or meeting short term deadlines)
- Demonstrable enthusiasm and commitment to improvement focused patient safety and quality initiatives, research and its application to practice
- Resilience and ability to get the job done
- Completer finisher working to tight deadlines
- Methodical & systematic approach to work, involving close attention to detail
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).
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).
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