Audit Lead Midwife | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,751 - £60,651 Per annum inclusive HCAS (pro-rata if LTFT) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 February 2026 |
| Location: | London, N18 1QX |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7665380/391-NMUH-7665380 |
Summary
North Middlesex Maternity: "A career in Midwifery, not just a job.
We are looking for a midwife who has experience clinical audit, has experience of being involved with or implementing Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives and can demonstrate an excellent understanding of Clinical Governance.
Here at North Middlesex maternity, we can offer you a career, not just a job. Our midwives are supported in their learning and development to help them to reach their full potential. This includes secondment opportunities within specialist teams, shadowing opportunities with members of the senior team, leadership programmes and Chief Nurse fellowship programmes. There is also the chance to be part of the talent management process.
The purpose of the post is to support the maternity team to understand compliance with local and national standards through clinical audit. This will ensure that every woman receives high quality care throughout their maternity journey. The post holder will co-ordinate and have oversight of clinical audit within the department and be able to present the findings to a multi-disciplinary audience.
They will lead on or work collaboratively on Quality Improvements initiatives, implementing, evaluating and reporting back on progress.
NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
Duties and Responsibilities:
To develop and implement robust and effective clinical audit programmes which support the compliance framework and fulfil all mandatory requirements for data submissions internal and external to the Trust
To monitor the quality of clinical audit projects in line with the Trust clinical audit policy
To develop and implement directorate wide audit processes that will effectively monitor clinical practice to ensure continuous improvement, compliance, and effectiveness.
To provide expert advice and to promote clinical audit and quality assurance projects at all levels of staff within the Directorate
To facilitate the implementation of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), external publications and eternal assessments programmes this will include the associated audit programmes.
To develop and implement processes to effectively monitor clinical practice via care pathways, ensuring continuous improvement, compliance, and effectiveness
To facilitate, support and coordinate a rolling programme of clinical audit projects, evidence-based practice and audit based on maternity priorities and specialty specific requirements.
Utilise information from incidents, complaints and claims to inform the audit programme
Work in partnership with the Consultant Audit Lead and the trust governance and compliance team to ensure that clinical audits required to demonstrate NICE compliance are carried out effectively, ensuring that appropriate action is taken to achieve improvements in the quality of patient care
Where possible staff across all clinical areas should be included in the audit process and the post holder should be aware of any project work being carried out by staff (eg. Florence Nightingale Foundation Fellows) to give support and guidance.
Work in conjunction with the Patient First team to identify and implement transformation and service improvement practices across the organization
Analyse and interpret data in relation to current service practice.
Benchmark data and findings against local and national expectations.
Work autonomously and lead on local, national and external audits.
Development of Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Timely (SMART) action plans.
To develop an audit template supportive of local, national and external recommendations.
Undertake related governance activities within the maternity services and wider as required.
To lead and co-ordinate the recommendations and action plans of all audits to provide assurance that the maternity services are achieving and working towards continual quality improvements in clinical practice.
Lead on quality assurance of ongoing projects, by monitoring good audit practice and ensuring that audit projects are completed to agreed timescales.
Ensure audit findings are presented to appropriate groups to agree practice improvements and monitor the implementation of agreed changes in practice through re-audits as appropriate.
Delegate selected tasks to other department staff where appropriate. Such as but not limited to data collection, data input and basic data analysis.
Support the production of, written or electronic reports to reflect the outcome of projects, using agreed templates where appropriate.
Support the Trust’s participation in National clinical audit projects.
Participate in the provision of quarterly reports
This advert closes on Friday 23 Jan 2026