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Maternity Quality and Safety Midwife | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 10 Chwefror 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £51,883 - £58,544 Pro rata per annum incl. HCAS |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 12 Mawrth 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Isleworth, TW7 6AF |
| Cwmni: | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6951587/289-SC-2375 |
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a clinically experienced midwife to join the MQAS team at Queen Mary Maternity Unit, West Middlesex University Hospital.
The role will be 80% clinical quality and safety and 20 % clinical.
You will need to be highly organised, flexible and motivated for this demanding role for which you will be fully supported by the team and receive the necessary training
The successful applicant will need to demonstrate:
• An ability to work systematically ensuring necessary deadlines are met
• An ability to work as part of a wider team but also demonstrate their autonomy in managing their day to day workload
• Skills to support colleagues to learn while ensuring accountability for good governance
The Maternity Quality and Safety Midwife (MQAS) is an experienced registered midwife who is passionate about improving the safety and effectiveness of the maternity service. They will be proactive in sharing the learning and themes from national reports and local incidents. They strive to develop practice, informing the training needs for the service and driving the highest standards of care.
This role will support the MQAS team in the implementation of the governance framework across the service through ensuring high quality internal reporting and communication across the Trust and to external partners.
The post holder will work with the MQAS team to identify, monitor and support risk issues within the department, and ensure the workforce take a proactive approach to mitigating risk and improving safety.
The role will include liaising with families, to ensure the service complies with the duty of candour responsibilities and ensure good communication throughout the investigation process. They will organise and support debrief meetings following serious incidents where appropriate.
Proud of our workforce
· Our 7,500 staff are recruited from local communities and around the world
· Our staff rate ussecond among acute trusts in London as a place to work
· Despite challenges in the NHS, our low staff vacancy rate remains significantly better than the national average
· We are passionate about the health and wellbeing of our staff with a huge support offer, including our nationally-recognised free back-up care scheme and Timewise accreditation as a flexible employer
· We love to develop our people, offering a range of development programmes and apprenticeships, with our healthcare support worker apprentices winningApprentice of the Yearfor two years running
· We offer a fantastic range of salary sacrifice schemes, from season ticket loans, bicycles and vehicles, to gym memberships, home electronics and holidays
Roles and responsibilities
• Maintain a high profile in the clinical area and be accessible to all staff.
• Develop and maintain communication channels, engaging all roles within the service and ensure regular updates are provided.
• To provide professional and operational support to the Midwifery clinical and management team in relation to Claims, Complaints, Clinical Risk and Governance initiatives and issues.
• Assist with the day to day maternity risk management process and strategy. Including the accurate reporting and validation of incidents onto the Datix electronic system and to ensure that the appropriate actions are taken in relation to any risks that are identified.
• To be responsible for ensuring incidents from the service are reported as appropriate, via the Datix reporting system.
• To co-ordinate, lead or delegate investigations and provide leadership and support for staff when serious incidents (SI) occur within maternity services.
• Contribute to the notification, and investigation using the PMRT role.
Development, Planning and Organisation
• To be aware of national initiatives and strategies and feed these into local maternity service development.
• Ensure a current business continuity plan exists to support system failure and staff are fully aware of the plan.
• Contribute towards the planning of services to meet organisational and national targets.
• Ensure staff have the ability to maintain contemporaneous record in line with the Clinical Negligence scheme for Trusts (CNST) and professional standards.
Clinical Responsibilities
• Be an active member of the relevant Clinical Governance & Risk Committees as directed and set up support systems to ensure the committees receive robust information from the Division (maternity services).
• To comply with all Trust policies, procedures and guidelines with regards to staff management issues.
• To take personal responsibility for own professional and personal development, in line with the NMC, and participate in personal performance reviews.
• To be highly visible and approachable to midwifery and obstetric staff, women and their families so that open and honest communication channels are created and effective assessments of care delivery and risk management can be undertaken.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
This advert closes on Sunday 23 Feb 2025