Lead Midwife

The Role:

We are looking to recruit a Lead Midwife (Clinical Governance & Quality) to join the Maternity & Neonates Team at University Hospital Wishaw.

The successful candidates focus will be to ensure a safe high quality service and outstanding patient experience, to ensure a robust clinical governance and quality strategy across the Women’s services, that interfaces with key interdependencies such as gynaecology and anaesthetics.

The successful candidates will:

Provide midwifery leadership/management of the maternity governance and quality team which consists of risk, quality improvement, education and digital midwifery / neonatal teams. Work with the service triumvirates to ensure the standards of cinical governance are upheld Lead quality initiatives across the perinatal services ensuring ongoing evaluation of the care standards and service delivery. Give advice on risk management issues related to service provision within the Women’s Services. Provide leadership support and direction to all senior midwives and midwifery specialists regarding clinical governance and quality Lead and participate in the co-ordination and management of clinical risk. Provide leadership with the clinical staff to identify risks, carry out risk assessments, report risks appropriately, and ensure that necessary actions follow and learning takes place Lead a positive safety culture across perinatal services Ensure support and advice is provided to staff, women, and their families within the governance framework. Provide leadership support and direction to all senior midwives and midwifery specialists regarding clinical governance and quality. Work collaboratively with the Director of Midwifery, service triumvirate and key stakeholders to ensure that the Women’s Services is well prepared for all internal and external assurance processes. Demonstrate leadership in the fostering and facilitation of close working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and relevant external organisations e.g. the local maternity and neonatal system. Ensure that the Maternity Risk and Governance Strategy is effectively conveyed to all staff and is translated into operational practice.

Contract type:

Band 8A / Permanent / Full Time / 37 hours

NHS Lanarkshire:

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

Why join NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire benefits include:

A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service (pro-rata for part time staff) A minimum of 8 days of public holidays Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the ) Paid sick leave increasing with length of service Occupational health services Employee Counselling services Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

What we'll need you to bring:

Registered Nurse/Midwife with valid NMC Registration Educated to/working towards/operating at Masters Level. Be able to demonstrate knowledge of NHS Scotland’s Leadership Qualities framework or equivalent framework. Management knowledge gained through experience and continuous professional development. Professional, leadership and managerial experience within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently.  Extensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the health care agenda. Experience of assessing training needs. Experience of resource management i.e. financial; human; capital. Experience in service planning, project management and performance monitoring/reporting. Knowledge and experience of needs assessment and analysis/interpretation of related data. A proven track record in sound and effective leadership. Ability to think strategically and act as a team player. A proven track record in developing innovative solutions in service requirements and motivating staff to affect change. A proven track record in developing teams/services and integrated solutions to complex and challenging problems. Working knowledge of basic information technology.

It would be good if you also had:

Master’s Degree Evidence of ongoing personal/professional development appropriate to area of practice Registered Midwife with relevant post registration practice Expert practice in the speciality and evidence of relevant continued professional development/qualification within the specialty Demonstration of experience of contributing to interagency work Knowledge of McQuic, CAAS, Workforce and all other areas and department that the post cover Working understanding of Child Protectio Excellent team working skills Ability to work on own initiative Effective listening, communication and interpersonal skills Effective time management skills

Looking to find out more?

If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you

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Further Information:

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our .

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