Quality and Safety Midwife
| Posting date: | 20 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £53,751.00 to £60,651.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53751.00 - £60651.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 December 2025 |
| Location: | Croydon, CR7 7YE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9199-25-0485 |
Summary
Ensure that any changes as a result of incidents are understood and implemented, encouraging reporting and fostering a culture where incidents including claims and complaints are seen as positive opportunities to learn lessons and improve services. Ensure that systems and processes developed to enable the maternity service to comply with national guidance (NICE), legal and professional requirements and to achieve service excellence. Coordinating with the health and Safety Department to ensure that risk assessments are undertaken and actions are carried out. Support the assessment of clinical and non-clinical risk within the Maternity service and ensure that complaints, reported incidents and serious untoward incidents (SIs) are investigated, managed and reported appropriately. Support the clinical leads for Governance and Risk to ensure the Maternity Risk Management Group is fulfilling its role Ensure SIs are presented to the multidisciplinary Team. Analyse risk information from Women Services and produce trend information to support mitigating action and wide learning from incidents, which have occurred. Support the Womens Service to reduce risk and further develop the positive culture of risk management. Play a key role in embedding and integrating Maternity risk management structures, systems and processes by delivering tailored training programmes, assessment and investigation support. Liaise with the practice development Lead to ensure that education and training to minimise clinical risk is available to clinical staff. Actively work on own initiative but also be part of the trust clinical governance strategy. Ensure that the Trust is fully aware of best practice and that risk management is integral to the operation of the Organisation. Ensure that members of the Clinical governance Team and midwifery staff are kept appraised of contemporary risk management practice.