Quality and Safety Lead

Due to the promotion of the current post holder, an exciting opportunity has arisen within the Women's and Children's Division at Wirral Women & Children's Hospital for a dedicated, enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to join our forward-thinking, dynamic, patient-focused, supportive and dedicated team.
As an organisation at the heart of the community, you will share our vision to deliver the best quality and safest care to women, babies, children and families within the communities we serve. The Quality & Safety Lead within the W&C Division is a key and pivotal role in ensuring the delivery of a safe and effective service.
You must be able to demonstrate a good level of enquiry, excellent communication and exceptional organisational skills. You must have current midwifery registration with the NMC, experience of working within Quality and Safety inclusive of patient safety, risk management and patient experience with effective time management skills and the ability to prioritise workload.
You will lead the governance and risk of maternity services, developing, embedding and promoting robust governance processes and a safety culture. It is essential that you are an experienced midwife with a comprehensive understanding of good governance and risk management. You must be able to present both written and verbal reports to a wide audience and have the ability to work with a range of other professionals both within and outside of our organisation. You will have good communication skills coupled with enthusiasm and innovation in your approach with the ability to engage others.
You will work closely with the Director of Midwifery & Nursing, operational and corporate management teams including staff at all levels in achieving delivery of safe, high quality, effective care to all of those who use our services.
All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as “competent and caring staff” by our patients.
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.
We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral’s only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.
We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.
The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.
Please see Job overview & attached Job description for further information about the Quality and Safety Lead position available with WUTH.
If successful in this role there is a requirement that you will have an enhanced DBS - this will be paid for by the Trust and deducted from your salary over a period of 3 months.
As this vacancy is within the division of Women's & Children's there is a mandatory requirement for successful applicants to join the DBS update service, the cost of joining the update service is £13 per year and applicants are liable to cover this cost with no reimbursement from the Trust. Further details about how to join the update service will be provided upon appointment.