Job summary

We have a fantastic opportunity forQuality, Safety and Governance Lead Midwife at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive the best quality and compassionate care.

You will report to and work in collaboration with the Director of Midwifery (DOM) and the Clinical Lead Consultant Obstetrician to establish effective maternity governance systems focussed on patient safety.

You will provide an oversight of the strategic and operational delivery of all aspects or quality assurance pertinent to the business of clinical governance in maternity, gynaecology and paediatrics.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

We will consider internal or external secondment for the right candidate.

To arrange an informal visit or to request further information, please contact Anna Lamburne,anna.lamburne@esneft.nhs.uk, mobile: 07922 420402.

Previous candidates need not apply.

Main duties of the job

Lead on monitoring standards of a range of clinical governance, clinical effectiveness and patient safety activity, in liaison with other multidisciplinary professionals and functional heads within the Patient Safety Team.

Maintain strong working relationships with clinical colleagues and will work with the Divisional Clinical Governance Leads and Divisional Management Team to deliver on the requirements of this post.

Ensure the triangulation of information and intelligence from across the Department, the division and the Trust, in order to provide leadership and direction in relation to Quality Governance, Effectiveness and Quality Improvements.

Be an expert clinical midwife, to ensure credibility in undertaking and the delivery of their role

About us

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 that Time Matters to 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 bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Job description
Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC registered midwife (current)
• Masters level education or equivalent experience.
• Post registration qualification with relevant Master's degree or equivalent and or working towards that includes leadership in the areas of Quality Assurance, Governance, Audit and Quality Improvement
• Trained in Root Cause with ability to analyse aggregated management systems
• PSIRF training undertaken or willingness to undertake

Desirable

• Recognised qualification in the field of quality assurance, compliance and governance
• Recognised Leadership/management qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience working in a senior maternity management role / level and working within a key leadership role, within a complex acute organisation
• Expert midwifery clinical experience of working across all professional boundaries, can demonstrate credible midwifery knowledge.
• Experience of working with multi professional staff groups
• Experience of risk management process, Incident investigations, and shared learning
• Evidence of ability to deliver training, and providing governance advice to clinicians and other senior managers
• Experience of drafting and developing policies and establishing compliance processes and procedures
• Good strategic level knowledge of quality improvement methodology and risk management procedures (
• Understanding of clinical effectiveness and audit procedures
• Extensive knowledge of patient safety, including human factors and serious incident methodology and management
• Experience of working within Patient Safety and Incident Review Framework

Desirable

• Experience of implementing change in clinical practice system wide
• Experience of working in risk and governance role across a Women's and Children's Division.

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• NMC registered midwife (current)
• Masters level education or equivalent experience.
• Post registration qualification with relevant Master's degree or equivalent and or working towards that includes leadership in the areas of Quality Assurance, Governance, Audit and Quality Improvement
• Trained in Root Cause with ability to analyse aggregated management systems
• PSIRF training undertaken or willingness to undertake

Desirable

• Recognised qualification in the field of quality assurance, compliance and governance
• Recognised Leadership/management qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience working in a senior maternity management role / level and working within a key leadership role, within a complex acute organisation
• Expert midwifery clinical experience of working across all professional boundaries, can demonstrate credible midwifery knowledge.
• Experience of working with multi professional staff groups
• Experience of risk management process, Incident investigations, and shared learning
• Evidence of ability to deliver training, and providing governance advice to clinicians and other senior managers
• Experience of drafting and developing policies and establishing compliance processes and procedures
• Good strategic level knowledge of quality improvement methodology and risk management procedures (
• Understanding of clinical effectiveness and audit procedures
• Extensive knowledge of patient safety, including human factors and serious incident methodology and management
• Experience of working within Patient Safety and Incident Review Framework

Desirable

• Experience of implementing change in clinical practice system wide
• Experience of working in risk and governance role across a Women's and Children's Division.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Colchester/ Ipswich

Colchester

CO4 5JL

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