Perinatal Quality and Governance Lead, Band 8b

3 weeks ago


Gloucester, United Kingdom Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you an experienced registered midwife and exceptional individualwho is committed to lead on safety, ensuring a high-quality service through an outstanding staff and patient experience.If so, then you’re the midwife we want working with us

The Perinatal Governance and Quality Lead Midwife will ensure the effective implementation of a comprehensive and systematic approach to Clinical Governance across perinatal services.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust operates hospitals on two main sites in Cheltenham and Gloucester, and we are one of the largest NHS trusts in the country. Our workforce of almost 8000 staff provides high quality emergency, elective and specialist care across a range of clinical areas.

Our maternity services provide exceptional choice to women and midwives offering an exemplary maternity service through a range of settings. Across our three main sites we have 6000 births a year and prioritise maternal health and choice.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced and knowledgeable midwife to lead, implement and have full delegated responsibility to deliver on the Quality and Governance Agenda ensuring continual improvement across the Maternity and Neonatal services

This is an exciting time to join GHNHSFT because we are developing our midwifery portfolio which proactively meets and develops the needs of our midwives, and the women and families we care for. This includes investment in our senior midwifery team and our Perinatal Governance team.

As an exceptional, experienced senior midwife you will become an essential part of that supportive multi-disciplinary team, providing inspirational leadership, working with key stakeholders to support transformation within our service

As our most valuable asset, we understand that happy, fulfilled staff will offer their best, and we aim to achieve this by providing a supportive team approach.

We are a large team comprising of midwives, maternity care assistants, maternity support workers and obstetricians. Each member of the multi-disciplinary team has a voice that can be heard and most importantly listened to.

To lead on the reporting of key performance metrics and data that we know to be a key measure of the safety and quality to the services we offer. In conjunction with the Director of Midwifery the post holder will ensure the effective implementation of a comprehensive and systematic approach to Clinical Governance in maternity services.

Supporting the Director of Midwifery, the postholder is responsible in ensuring that all aspects of clinical risk are robustly and effectively managed and reported in the interest of women's safety. Through the promotion of a service wide culture in which reporting incidents and learning from incidences is not only routine practice but also a means of improving the quality of clinical care and reducing risks leading to continuous improvement

Ensuring that lessons learnt are shared systematically in the work place and assimilated into practice encouraging reflective practice and debriefs for all staff. Ensuring that the continual improvement of the management of women safety by developing programmes for improvement linking in with patient safety and governance as appropriate.

The postholder will educate, support and advise senior managers and clinicians responsible for carrying out investigations of incidents and near misses including identification and implementation of action plans and ensure measures are in place to prevent incident recurrence. Through supporting the Director of Midwifery in the implementation of robust systems, and risk management arrangements to support women's safety, staff safety and compliance agenda including NHS Risk management, national standards and drivers or equivalent, monitor Department of Health policies and drivers for best practice requirements will be maintained.

Develop and encourage a culture of continuous quality and service improvement to enable change and to help deliver better services, utilising established links with outside agencies, carers groups and third sector to ensure their participation and contribution to the development, planning and evaluation of services within the Division.

To coordinate the monitoring and review of midwifery/maternity complaints, incidents and clinical risks throughout the Directorate, developing and monitoring action plans, in consultation with the Director of Midwifery.

The postholder will ensure that all complaints are investigated appropriately and responded to within the Trust timescales.

To support the Director of Midwifery in undertaking appropriate investigations of serious cases working closely with Corporate Governance on all matters of patient safety and governance and ensure clinical guidelines are developed in partnership with clinicians, ratified through the Trust Clinical Governance System, effectively distributed, disseminated and used within the Maternity Services.

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