Head of Women's Health Governance and Assurance

2 weeks ago

Harlow, United Kingdom The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust Full time

Due to promotion, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and forward thinking individual.
Are you a motivated midwife with great organisational skills and experience of working in Governance?
Are you ready to support and coordinate maternity services to ensure that all local and national safety standards and requirements are met?
Can you provide the link between governance and training to ensure learning from service user experience is directly translated into the service training syllabus?
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust has a busy maternity unit with around 3600 births per year. The maternity, perinatal, and women's health service strive for excellence, with quality improvement service development, and user-experience being at the forefront of our journey to excellence. We are a strong partnership with our Local Maternity and Neonatal System and regional perinatal team and fully believe in collaborative working to drive services forward.
The post holder will assist the Child Health and Women's Health Service (CHaWS) quadrumvirate in the continued development of the professional agenda to achieve consistency of practice, high standards of care and innovation with a strong patient safety focus. Leading the service in all areas of clinical governance and risk management alongside the team, the post holder will ensure quality assurance, achieving safety and clinical governance objectives within Maternity and Women's Health services.
The post holder will provide the key link between Maternity services and the Corporate Governance team.
Our Organisation
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
Everyday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
Creative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
Please see the attached Job description and person specification for the full job details. This is available to download at any time.

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