Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Midwifery
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 391-NMUH-6984209-A
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Quality & Safety Midwife
NHS AfC: Band 7
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
Quality & Safety Midwife
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic candidate to the role of Quality and Safety Midwife.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Maternity Services Quality and Safety team here at the Royal Free Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (North Middlesex Hospital site) , in the role of a Quality & Safety Midwife.
The post-holder will be working with the Quality & Safety Lead Midwife to develop, implement and monitor patient safety and quality pathways with a focus on maintaining excellent standards of care and compliance with national and local standards. They will have a responsibility to ensure that all post-incident processes are achieved, ensuring that emerging themes are identified, shared and recommendations put into action in line with PSIRF. Under the leadership of the Quality & Safety Lead Midwife, the Quality & Safety Midwife will develop and sustain programmes of work to ensure that the Trust meets the outcomes set by regulatory bodies such as Care Quality Commission, NHS England, NHS Resolution (Maternity Incentive Scheme), and any other national, service specific or local performance frameworks (PMRT, MBRRACE, SBL).
Main duties of the job
Through a proactive approach to risk management the post holder will support and develop a culture of informed questioning, positive challenge, appreciative enquiry, data informed analysis triangulation and assurance. Supporting risk management and quality assurance activity, the Quality & Safety Midwife will support compliance on national and local programmes.
The post will involve supporting the Quality & Safety Lead in working closely with Midwifery, Obstetric, Anaesthetic and Neonatal Stakeholders to ensure compliance is met with both the maternity incentive scheme and the NHSE Three Year Delivery Plan and immediate and essential safety actions requirements. The post holder will be an exceptional individual who can influence, lead and motivate staff at all levels and will work proactively to co-ordinate, monitor and support the compliance requirements. The post holder will work closely with the Project manager of NHSR Scheme and other associated projects, and oversee support activities required for compliance.
The Quality & Safety Midwife will also have a strong desire to help patients, families and their colleagues; have the ability to collaborate, communicate, and partner with patients and family members to the extent that they need and desire as well as demonstrate a commitment to all who provide and support healthcare to communicate and collaborate with each other.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The main purpose of the post is to:
- Give advice on risk management issues related to service provision within the Maternity and Gynaecology services.
- Be responsible for coordinating risk management and support the Associate Director of Midwifery & Clinical Governance leads in overseeing risk management throughout the maternity services.
- Work closely with the Associate Director of Midwifery and Consultant leads to provide a systematic Risk Management Strategy, which aims to improve patient safety and reduce adverse outcomes, within the Clinical Governance Agenda.
Please see document attached for detailed job description and main responsabilities.
Person specification
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Extensive evidence of clinical or professional development.
- Mentorship 998/997 or equivalent.
- Midwifery degree or working towards Masters.
- Experience with datix risk management system.
- RCA trained
- Some experience of leadership.
- Human factors.
- Experience of quality improvement.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate the required expertise associated with a senior midwife role.
- Including Advanced clinical skills: I.V annulations, phlebotomy& drug admin, CTG interpretation, Resuscitation of mothers and babies.
- Ability to assess maternal and fetal wellbeing and implement the appropriate management
- Knowledge of statutory requirements following fetal loss i.e. NHS resolution, each babies counts.
- Understanding of current NHS issues and initiatives
- Excellent written, verbal, and non- verbal communication skills.
Skills and aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable clinical experience in all areas of Midwifery.
- Experience in similar clinical governance role.
- Significant experience at Band 6 level or Band 7 level experience.
- Excellent understanding of clinical governance and risk management, mitigation and ensuring that lessons are learnt.
- Good understanding of regulatory requirements from the Care Quality Commission, and others.
- Good understanding of NHS Resolution.
- Good understanding of each baby counts /HSIB.
- Good understanding of the management of serious incidents in relation to process, transparency, and candor.
- Experience of presenting information within a group setting using PowerPoint or report formal
- Leading or participating in meetings.
- Management/ implementation of practice change
- Participation in service development.
- Experience of resource management
- Good understanding of national patient safety strategy
- Experience using datix reporting system
- Experience using Medway/ maternity Medway information system.
- Professional and able to address poor practice and conduct
Personal Qualities & attributes
Essential criteria
- Kind
- Compassionate
- Good time management
Vaues
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet trust values.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Shama Ahmed
- Job title
- Q&S Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 887 4362
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