Patient Safety Midwife | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 08 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 07 August 2025 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO4 5JL |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7332001/432-HR457-25 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife to join our established team as the Patient Safety Midwife (with lead for patient experience).
This is a key role ensuring that the voice of women, birthing people and their families are central to the delivery of any changes within the maternity services to truly ensure that we are meeting the needs of our local community.
You will work collaboratively with other patient safety and risk management leads within the Women and Children's Division and Trust wide to promote a culture of safety and learning from experience and promote best practice.
This is part time role-15 hours per week.
• To prepare reports and seek input from families and lead PMRT(perinatal mortality review tool) within the Trust
• To act as lead link between Maternity and Neonatal Voice Partnerships, organising, attending and participating in meetings, embedding relationships with the MNVP as key stakeholders to service improvement;
• To act as a conduit with the Maternity Neonatal Independent Senior Advocate
• To work collaboratively with leadership team to identify learning needs and provide learning opportunities to facilitate change and performance improvement from patient and staff feedback;
• To inspire and lead others to design and deliver the best experience to patients;
• To understand and establish the most effective feedback mechanism for patient experience, generating meaningful actions to improve the care received by families;
• Understand the requirement and wishes of women, birthing people and their families regarding their expectations, the information they wish to receive and the services provided;
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bringwhat’swidely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description
This advert closes on Monday 21 Jul 2025