Head of Maternity, Governance, Compliance and Assurance

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior midwife with proven track record of strong operational management experience, clinical practice and governance to join King's College Hospital NHS as Head of maternity's governance compliance and assurance.

The principal responsibilities of the post are to ensure maternity services have an effective Risk and governance processes that can fulfil regulatory obligations and can withstand any external scrutiny, demonstrating high quality and safer maternity services. The expectation of the role is contribution to maternity services transformation through effective learning and embedding PSIRF that is in line with the assurance framework.

This role will provide an excellent opportunity for a proactive and organised individual with great interpersonal skills to influence maternity strategic planning trust wide as well as across the South East London Local Maternity and Neonatal system.

Head of maternity governance, compliance and assurance is a member of the senior midwifery team led by the director of Midwifery and Gynaecology Nursing (DOM), responsible for driving a positive learning culture and ensuring seamless clinical governance pathways.

Main duties of the job

Integral part of the role is to ensure there is a culture of learning that is effective and responsive toevidenced based practice and able to adapt to changes in the overall national agenda and locally improvesoutcomes. Other key aspects of the role include:Promote compliance, assurance, and transformation through delivery of presentations anddiscussions with large groups of staff at various forums Utilising the education, risk and governance team and education to provide day to day visibility andleadership to Midwifery staff on compliance, assurance, and transformation in the portfolio. Thisincludes monitoring that the learning from incidents are displayed and staff are aware of the topreported risks and items on the risk register and how to escalate any safety concerns. Provide expert direction, guidance and support to the Maternity Department, and also Neonatal,Sonography and Anaesthetic Colleagues where appropriate, in achieving obligations in relation toNational Standards (, CNST, CQC). As line manager to QI lead midwife, can evidence an agreed QI program management that spansacross all areas to show how clinical teams are supported to close gaps in pathways to enableservice design using QI methodology.

About us

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with aturnover of £1 billion, million patient contacts a year and around 15,000 staff based across 5 main sitesin South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, andspecialist services from King's College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at thePrincess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley. King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for all via our Green Plan. In line with nationalGreener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Our values at King's, are that we're a kind, respectful team; Kind. We show compassion and understandingand bring a positive attitude to our work Respectful. We promote equality, are inclusive and honest, speakingup when needed Team. We support each other, communicate openly, and are reassuringly professionalThe trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstandingcare, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (EDI) at the heart ofeverything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can takeTeam King's to another level

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder is a member of the Midwifery Senior Management Team, responsible for assisting theDirector of Midwifery within the Maternity services at Kings (Denmark Hill and Princess Royal UniversityHospital) in monitoring high quality and safer maternity post holder will be working with the Director of Midwifery and Gynaecology Nursing structure to organiseall activities related to risk and Governance processes based on key components of clinical governanceframework that supports high quality maternity services. In line with the trusts processes, the poster willensure effective multidisciplinary working across the care group that is supportive of strong culture of learning,working closely and collaboratively with Womens Care group senior management post-holder will ensure that there is a culture of Quality improvement embedded within all aspects of alearning culture in line with maternity transformation with specific attention to Equality, diversity and inclusionagenda. This is to demonstrate that maternity services can effectively withstand any external scrutiny suchas CQC. This includes ensuring that the service can meet all national maternity standards andrecommendations that emerge from published guidelines and any maternity report that has recommendationsfor Quality and safety for assurance and compliance. Relevant standards/inspections/reporting routes includeand is based on the current maternity services national, regional and local agenda:

Person Specification

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

An MSC level qualification /post graduate management qualification or significant progress made to completion of further studies at Masters Level. A proven track record of operational service management at a senior level in an acute hospital environment, including staff management, financial management and change management High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude Registered Nurse / Midwife, Currently on NMC Register Relevant and recent post registration experience as clinical midwifery practice

Desirable

Previous involvement of multi-agency working across the health economy at a senior level European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) or equivalent Significant experience and knowledge of the business planning process.

Skills

Essential

Excellent inter-personal and communication skills with good listening skills

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