Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

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These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

Kingston Hospital Maternity Unit is looking for a Maternity Risk Administrative Co-ordinator. The post holder will provide administrative support to the Maternity Risk Team and Risk Management Team to enable seamless efficiency in the functions of patient safety governance and risk. The post holder will manage the organisation of the Maternity Risk Management meeting, Maternity Guideline Group, Maternity Voiced Partnership and Maternity Safety Champions meeting.

The post will be 37.5 hours, working hours between Monday to Friday and will be office-based. It will be a fixed term contract for 12 months as a Band 4.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide organisational and secretarial support for the Risk training and will need a strong administration and Information Technology skills. You need to be competent to develop and use databases, paying attention to detail and accuracy.

You will be expected to work efficiently and flexibly as part of a team with good organisational skills.  You will need the ability to deal with competing priorities without direct supervision.

Working for our organisation

Kingston Maternity is a popular service with approximately 4600 births per annum.  The most recent National Maternity Survey rated Kingston in the top five best performing maternity services within London.  The Care Quality Commission rated Kingston Hospital’s Maternity Service as Good in 2022 and the Trust ‘outstanding’ in 2019, with staff positive about the hospital and the services they were able to offer women and their families. Leadership is strong and well respected and there is a culture of learning and a desire to improve the service.

The Risk team are friendly, supportive and work closely with each other and consist of 3 midwives.

The role provides an excellent opportunity to support development into a NHS career, and the successful candidate will need to demonstrate a clear interest in patient safety.   If you are an enthusiastic, inclusive individual committed to supporting others then we would be the perfect organisation to help you flourish.