Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 208-A2DDEF-25-1
- Employer
- Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cross site NLAG
- Town
- Cross site NLAG
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Quality Governance Coordinator
Band 6
Job overview
Working within the Maternity Services at NLAG, the post holder will provide support for the delivery of the clinical governance agenda across all three sites. Reporting to the Governance Lead Midwife, the post holder will support the implementation and monitoring of robust governance systems and process to enable the delivery of high-quality safe patient care.
This role encompasses supporting the Care Group with incident management, risk management, clinical audit, and clinical effectiveness programmes to ensure high-quality clinical governance and risk management across the Maternity Services and the subspecialties within it. This includes both hospital based and community care services.
Main duties of the job
The focus of the post is on areas identified by the Governance Lead Midwife to support the coordination of investigations and facilitate Patient Safety Incident Investigation (PSIIs), developing reports and supporting colleagues to drive exemplary patient safety as part of the wider clinical governance agenda. The post holder will also support external inspections, develop appropriate action plans and ensure that required actions are completed. There will also be a need to support with review audits to ensure improvements are fully embedded and sustained.
The post holder will work closely with the Governance Lead Midwife as well as Care Group Clinical Leads, Director of Midwifery, Head of Midwifery, Medical staff, and other Health Care Professionals. There is a requirement to work independently across three sites, this requires flexibility in travelling.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/
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“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Educated to Degree Level or equivalent level of experience
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Training in Patient Safety Incident Response Processes (Previous Root Cause Analysis) or experience undertaking investigations.
- Health Professional with current registration
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Sound knowledge in relation to Quality, Governance and maintaining patient safety area of expertise
- Specialist Governance knowledge in a range of areas such as incident management, risk management and systems, clinical audit, and clinical effectiveness
- Working knowledge of IT systems in relation to clinical governance
Desirable criteria
- A good understanding of the changing NHS environment
- Knowledge of legislation and standards relating to health and safety, security, complaints, claims and incidents
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Skilled in presenting relevant written information in a concise format and produce high quality documents
- Strong planning, prioritising, and organisational skills. Able to balance competing demands and prioritise work within set deadlines and responds appropriately to urgent and emergency situations
Desirable criteria
- Project / change management
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natalie Jenkin
- Job title
- Acting Head of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03033 302303
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