Lead Midwife Quality Governance, Assurance

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.
**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.
Proud of our workforce
- Our 7,500 staff are recruited from local communities and around the world
- Our staff rate us second among acute trusts in London as a place to work
- Despite challenges in the NHS, our low staff vacancy rate remains significantly better than the national average
- 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 employer
- 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 running
- We offer a fantastic range of salary sacrifice schemes, from season ticket loans, bicycles and vehicles, to gym memberships, home electronics and holidays

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 trust’s
objectives.
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.
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