Description
Are you an experienced and motivated midwifery leader with a passion for quality, safety and continuous improvement?
We are seeking an exceptional Deputy Lead Midwife to play a pivotal role in shaping and strengthening maternity governance across our services. Working closely with senior maternity leaders, you will help drive the quality and safety agenda, ensuring women, babies and families receive the highest standards of care.
Main duties of the job
- Support the Lead Midwife Quality Assurance, Governance & Compliance on monitoring standards of a range of clinical governance, clinical effectiveness, audit and patient safety activities, in liaison with other multidisciplinary professionals and functional heads within the Safety and Effectiveness team.
- Support the Lead Midwife for Quality Assurance, Governance & Compliance to provide an oversight of the strategic and operational delivery of all aspects of quality assurance pertinent to the business of clinical governance in maternity that is safety centric, as well as demonstrating good quality governance is understood and practised across all professional groups within maternity services.
- Hold responsibility for the development, coordination, and ongoing monitoring of a comprehensive maternity action plan, incorporating all actions and recommendations arising from internal reviews, external investigations, audits, inspections, and regulatory reports, ensuring timely implementation, oversight, and assurance of progress.
- The post holder is responsible for ensuring effective governance systems are in place across maternity and particularly guideline, clinical audit, risk management, training and Maternity Incentive Scheme (MIS).
Benefits
- Career development, flexible working and wellbeing
- Staff recognition scheme
- Optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities
Requirements
- NMC registered midwife
- Degree level education or equivalent experience
- Trained in Root Cause Analysis
- Ability to analyse aggregated management systems
- Recognised qualification in the field of quality assurance, compliance and governance (desirable)
- Recognised Leadership/management qualification (desirable)