Governance Midwife

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
Are you a midwife looking to gain experience within clinical governance? Would you like to make a difference to women, birthing people and their families at the Northern Care Alliance? Then look no further than this fantastic opportunity as a Governance midwife

There is a maternity improvement programme underway at Royal Oldham Hospital which will enhance the services we can offer to women, birthing people and their families who access our care and we would love for you to join us on this incredible journey.

We have just rolled out of Badger net digital maternity notes, an end-to-end digital solution, incorporating Birmingham Symptom-specific Obstetric Triage System (BSOTS) to support the safe, quality care of our women and birthing people.

We are developing our workforce with new roles to support the service and to improve progression opportunities for our midwifery team because we want you to see your career progress within the NCA.

You will be expected to have excellent attention to detail and have the ability to engage others to excel.

We support the development of a culture within the maternity service, which is open to and empowers innovation, creativity and learning at ward and departmental level.

We provide a service which values, respects and strengthens the differing cultures and backgrounds of the families using our service and to adopt a friendly, supportive and non-judgemental approach to staff, mothers, babies and families.

**Main duties of the job**:
The post holder will have a leading role within the Maternity Services’ Clinical Governance team and will provide skills and knowledge to support the Governance Assurance Framework. The post holder will be an advocate for women and their families in accordance with the philosophy and standards of care within the area, ensuring that Trust values and beliefs are upheld.

The post holder will:
Undertake investigation for incidents and complaints submitted for Maternity Services, preparing rapid reviews and assisting in the preparation of Root Cause Analysis Reports for the Division, Care Organisation and external agencies.

Support the patient safety agenda by participating in audit and quality improvement initiatives across Maternity services.

Support guideline/policy development and timely review, ensuring that Maternity guidelines and policies reflect national recommendations and best practice.

Support with the preparation of documents and reports.

Participate in the practice review forum.

Assist in the Co-ordination of risk & governance meetings for the Directorate

Support Clinical Teams with management of the risk register and development of new risks

Actively participate in Divisional meetings relevant to the role

**Working for our organisation**:
Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world’s first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital. As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Registered Midwife
- Educated to degree level or higher

**Knowledge and skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Evidence of continued professional developement
- Understanding of Current NHS maternity strategies and policies
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance

**Desirable criteria**:

- Understanding of/experience with Datix system

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**Employer certification / accreditation badges**:
**Applicant requirements**:

- You must have appropriate UK professional registration.