Specialist Midwife Quality & Safety

Job summary

Are you a Midwife looking for a new challenge and to take the next step in your midwifery career? Are you passionate about developing and maintaining high standards of care for women and their families? Do you have motivation, vision, and foresight to join our Maternity Governance team, and assist with leading the Patient Safety Agenda?

We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated midwife who is passionate about patient safety. The role will support the Quality, Risk & Governance Lead Midwife and the governance team along with the senior leadership team to manage and coordinate all aspects of clinical risk and governance.

The maternity governance and risk team works collaboratively within the risk management framework of the Trust to develop, establish, and maintain risk management systems. Collectively they lead and are responsible for developing robust systems which recognise, report, analyse, evaluate, and minimise the risks to staff, patients, visitors, and the organisation.

At Mid Yorkshire hospitals we strive to deliver the highest quality and safest care for approximately 5700 women and babies per year, we are passionate about ensuring women have a positive experience each and every time and are committed in supporting our teams to develop professionally.

We pride ourselves on The Mid Yorkshire's vision to provide high quality and safe. Maternity services at home, in the community and in our hospitals, to improve the quality of lives for women and their families.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support and work with the team to develop, implement, monitor, review and embed strategies and frameworks to underpin the principles of clinical governance in Midwifery Services; this will include effectively managing clinical risks. The post holder, with support and oversight from the senior leadership team will work with the MDT and lead on the enaction of Saving Babies Lives workstreams and compliance with Maternity Incentive Scheme, ensuring the timely completion of safety actions and collation of supportive evidence.

Job responsibilities

We are an acute trust caring for over half a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

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