Job summary
- Main area
- Women and Children
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 162-6976-KI-A
- Employer
- Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Clinical Gov. - Maternity
- Town
- Romford
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Band 7 Lead Midwife for Audit and Effectiveness
Band 7
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Job overview
We are looking to recruit an experienced band 7 midwife to join our Governance team as the Lead Midwife for Audit and Effectiveness. If you are an experienced & NMC registered midwife who, has an NMC PIN number and would like to make a difference to women and their families, then we would like to hear from you. By joining our team you will have the opportunity to bring your wealth of knowledge and experience to our maternity service.
Main duties of the job
- To lead the maternity services programme of multidisciplinary audit developing action plans for the improvement of clinical practice and care for women.
- To work in collaboration with the maternity multidisciplinary team to develop specialist programmes of audit annually.
- To ensure our audit methods and programme remain contemporary and reflect the needs of the women, their babies and the maternity service.
- To lead, conduct and co-ordinate locally and across the Trust the local and national audits taking place within the maternity services.
- To act as the recognised source of midwifery audit information and expertise for the service.
- To engage and ensure participation of all clinicians for example nursery nurses, midwives, student midwives, midwifery support workers, doctors in training, obstetricians, neonatologists, anaesthetists and other allied healthcare professionals in clinical audits by establishing and maintaining effective communication links.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application, please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process or assistance with completion of the form (for applicants with a disability) can be made to Tosin Aragbaiye, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5934. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Practicing midwife active on the NMC register
- Audit qualification or evidence of significant knowledge and experience of audit
Desirable criteria
- Quality improvement training
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Excellent communication skills
- • Full understanding of audit and methodologies
Desirable criteria
- Quality improvement theory and techniques
- Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to communicate effectively both verbally and written
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Relevant and recent post registration midwifery experience
- Experience of leading and developing audit initiatives
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
- Koreisha Namah
- Job title
- Midwifery Project Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01708 435000
- Additional information
Ext 3495
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Queen's Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
Essex
RM7 0AG
- Telephone
- 01708 435000
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