# Head of Women's Health Governance and Assurance **Company**: The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust **Location**: Harlow, Essex **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: permanent **Salary**: £79,504 to £91,609 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9292-26-0439?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_5fbd51a9-edb ## Description We are seeking an exceptional, compassionate and credible senior leader to join our Women's Health senior leadership team as Head of Women's Health Governance and Assurance. This is a pivotal role with the influence and authority to strengthen safety, quality, learning and assurance across maternity and gynaecology, while working closely with neonatal colleagues to support a joined-up perinatal approach. Maternity and neonatal services are operating in a period of unprecedented national scrutiny and reform. The expectations arising from recent independent reviews, the NHS Maternity and Neonatal 10 Point Plan, Care Quality Commission oversight and the Maternity (Perinatal) Incentive Scheme require visible leadership, robust evidence, rapid learning and clear Board assurance. The postholder will be central to ensuring that our services meet these standards, respond confidently to external review and, most importantly, translate learning into safer, equitable and consistently high-quality care for women, babies and families. **Main duties of the job** - Provide leadership to the staff, functions and services managed and be accountable to the Director of Midwifery and Gynaecology. - Act as the divisional lead for the development, co-ordination and implementation of effective quality governance framework within the maternity and gynaecology service. - Ensure robust processes are in place to meet the services requirements for providing excellence in the delivery of care. - Line manage and be responsible for the performance of the Maternity, Risk and Gynaecology governance teams and associated budgets. **What you will bring** - Current NMC registration as a midwife and substantial senior leadership experience in maternity services. - Expert knowledge of maternity and perinatal governance, patient safety, risk management, regulation and national standards. - A strong record of leading improvement, investigation, assurance and organisational learning across multidisciplinary services. - The ability to interpret complex information, identify emerging risk and provide clear, credible assurance to senior leaders and the Board. - Inclusive, compassionate and courageous leadership, with the confidence to challenge constructively and build effective partnerships. - Experience of leading education and training, translating learning into sustainable improvements in practice. **Benefits** - Development opportunities - Flexible working - Strong focus on wellbeing **Job responsibilities** - Working in close partnership with the Director of Midwifery and Gynaecology, Deputy Director of Midwifery, operational leaders, obstetric, neonatal and gynaecology medical teams, and corporate governance colleagues, you will provide strategic leadership for clinical governance, risk, patient safety, regulatory compliance and quality assurance. - Lead the maternity education function, oversee delivery of the Core Competency Framework and multidisciplinary training requirements, and ensure that learning from reviews, investigations, audit and clinical practice directly informs workforce development. **Person Specification** - Qualifications: + Registered Midwife + Completion of teaching and assessing programme + Evidence of post registration study up to 1st degree level + Educated, or working towards, to Masters Degree level or equivalent experience in Nursing/Midwifery - Experience: + Evidence of continued professional development + Clinical experience at a senior midwifery post (Band 8a and above) + Experience in risk management process in relation to incidents + Involvement in recruitment and selection + Demonstrable experience in project management in maternity services ## Skills ### Required - NMC registration as a midwife - senior leadership experience in maternity services - maternity and perinatal governance - patient safety - risk management - regulation and national standards ### Nice to have - Registered Nurse - training in risk assessment - experience in a similar previous role --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9292-26-0439?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)