Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 6 months (Fixed term - 6 Months)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday- Friday with additional on calls over 7 days.)
- Job ref
- 229-SUR-7737163
- Employer
- Wye Valley NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hereford County Hospital
- Town
- Hereford
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Patient Safety Lead Midwife (INTERNAL)
Band 7
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Job overview
***INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY***
An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced midwife to join our maternity team as Patient Safety Lead on a 6-month secondment.
In this pivotal role, you will lead maternity governance activity to ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality care. You will be responsible for overseeing governance processes, managing risk, and driving continuous quality improvement across maternity services.
We are seeking a motivated and well-organised individual with strong leadership skills and a genuine passion for promoting safety, learning, and excellence in maternity care.
The post holder will work closely with the Deputy Director of Midwifery, Perinatal Quality & Safety Matron, and specialty clinical leads to foster a positive culture of safety and learning from experience. You will lead on the monitoring, investigation, and reporting of maternity-related safety incidents and risks, proactively developing systems and processes to support safer services and best practice.
Main duties of the job
Professional Responsibilities
- Create an environment in which effective learning from incidents can take place
- Coordinate the investigation and response to clinical incident, and serious incidents requiring investigation on behalf of the maternity services including facilitation of incident and panel reviews and feedback to staff and patients
- Ensure compliance with Duty of Candour requirements through monitoring and collaboration working with Associate Director of Midwifery, Perinatal Quality & Safety Matron and Trust Patient Safety and Governance leads
- Support the senior midwifery managers and trust complaints and legal team incoordination of complaints and claim requirements
- Work in partnership with a range of clinicians and managers in the planning or development of the service to promote patients safety and risk management
Working for our organisation
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.
More than 3,000 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view ‘supporting documents’ linked to this vacancy.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Degree level
- Registered Midwife Qualification
- Ongoing Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Awareness and understanding of current national and local maternity agenda in relation to safety
- Knowledge and experience of implementing clinical governance and risk management
- Evidence of leadership
- Strong communication skills
- High quality report writing skills
- Ability to manage change
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Experience
Essential criteria
- Provide evidence of leading on audit programmes
- Well developed IT skills
- Ability to analyse and understand information and data based on statistics
- Experience of managing difficult situations
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Susan Hughes
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07870 599013
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