Quality, Safety and Governance Lead Midwife *£2,000 Incentive*

Job overview

This post attracts a recruitment incentive of £2000 pro rata (conditions apply)

Following the recent appointment of our deputy Director of Midwifery at ESNEFT, we are looking to appoint to the final key member of our Senior Leadership Team. We have a fantastic opportunity for  Quality, Safety and Governance Lead Midwife at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our families receive the best quality and compassionate care.  You will report to and work in collaboration with the Director of Midwifery (DOM) and with support from the wider Divisional Management team, along with the Governance lead Consultant Obstetricians on each site,  you will ensure effective maternity governance systems focussed on patient safety.

You will provide an oversight of the strategic and operational delivery of all aspects or quality assurance pertinent to the business of clinical governance in maternity, gynaecology and paediatrics.

ESNEFT provides maternity services at Colchester, Ipswich and Clacton hospitals. We offer a range of consultant and midwifery-led services at all of our sites and facilitate the births of approximately 7,000 babies a year.

If you are a highly skilled midwifery leader, passionate about high quality care and want to develop your skills and knowledge further, then we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Lead on monitoring standards of a range of clinical governance, clinical effectiveness and patient safety activity, in liaison with other multidisciplinary professionals and functional heads within the Patient Safety Team.

Maintain strong working relationships with clinical colleagues and will work with the Divisional Clinical Governance Leads and Divisional Management Team to deliver on the requirements of this post. Ensure the triangulation of information and intelligence from across the Department, the division and the Trust, in order to provide leadership and direction in relation to Quality Governance, Effectiveness and Quality Improvements.

Be an expert clinical midwife, to ensure credibility in undertaking and the delivery of their role

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.