Job overview

The post holder is responsible for the co-ordination of clinical governance procedures and frameworks within Maternity Services, ensuring systems are in place to manage clinical risk effectively.

The post holder will provide leadership, guidance and expertise within the multi-professional team for Maternity for clinical governance and risk management in line with the Trust-wide framework.

This will include developing and putting in place strategies and frameworks that ensure the Maternity service meets its obligations for Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST), and that it meets the Trust standards for clinical governance including risk management.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the review, and dissemination of the Maternity Risk Management Strategy. This involves fostering a culture amongst teams that ensures clinical quality and risk management remains one of the top priorities within the division through:

• ·       enabling all staff to actively participate in identifying, actioning and evaluating all patient safety and risk issues;
• ·       leading and supporting the communication and management of the issues through Datix in line with policy

The post holder will have a unique opportunity to develop the clinical governance role and risk management knowledge both locally and regionally. This will include exposure locally, regionally and nationally through collaborative working in Yorkshire and the Humber to deliver Better Births following the National Maternity Review

The post holder will participate in training and education of staff within Maternity Services engendering a proactive and positive clinical governance culture

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.