Quality & Safety Midwife | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,883 - £58,544 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2025 |
| Location: | London, N18 1QX |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7210864/391-NMUH-6984209-A |
Summary
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).
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.
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.
Take a tour of our hospitalhere
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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 28 May 2025
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).
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.
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.
Take a tour of our hospitalhere
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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 28 May 2025