Lead Midwife for Clinical Governance

5 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This extremely exciting and challenging period in the delivery of health care in Greater Manchester. MFT provides a wealth of career opportunities for great people. Right now, we are seeking an innovative practitioner to join us as the Lead Midwife for Governance across Saint Mary’s MCS.

The post holder will provide clinical and professional leadership and line management to the Maternity Clinical Governance Teams across Saint Mary’s Managed Clinical Service. Reporting to the Heads of Midwifery the post holder will ensure that the key functions of the Lead Midwife are undertaken within the service, which include:
Demonstrate effective leadership, setting, monitoring and maintaining professional standards.

Lead on the Maternity Services Quality and Safety, embedding the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and monitoring risks across the division.

Ensure that the relevant clinical guidelines in place across Maternity Services and that these are monitored and reviewed within the agreed timeframes.

Be an integral member of the divisional team, providing midwifery advice and embedding quality and safety into the maternity services’ culture.

Have a responsibility to ensure all information processed for patients and staff is kept confidential, accurate and in line with the Data Protection Act 1998 and Caldicott guidance.

Contribute and participate in the Senior Midwife on-call rota.

**Your main duties of the job will include**:
In partnership with the Consultant Governance Lead, coordinate the review and investigation of incidents in line with PSIRF and work with the Saint Mary’s MCS Clinical Effectiveness Manager.

To coordinate the legal cases within the obstetric division.

Monitor actions developed from incident reviews and investigations ensuring these are achieved in the agreed time frames.

Support the monitoring and delivery of Harm Free Care, developing actions plans within clinical teams where required to ensure standard maintained. To share best practices between departments.

Work in partnership with the Lead Midwife for Education and Practice Development to ensure learning from incidents is embedded across the MCS.

Represent Saint Mary’s MCS at Greater Manchester and East Cheshire Local Maternity and Neonatal System meetings, for example Safety Special Interest Group, and present reports as required.

Represent the division at the Saint Mary’s MCS Patient Safety Response Group, submitting and presenting reports as required.

Attend incident review panels as required in partnership with the Consultant Governance Lead to present cases as requested.

Lead the guideline process, including reviews and developments; develop a divisional guideline group.

Oversee improvement in midwifery documentation.

Support for Perinatal Mortality reviews.

Professional support to all Midwifery Matrons

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

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