Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS TCS 2023: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-S3-L-1265-A
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellington House
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £58,972 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Regional Maternity Quality & Safety Lead
NHS TCS 2023: Band 8b
Job overview
An exiting opportunity has arisen to join the London Regional Maternity Team as Quality and Safety Lead Midwife. We are looking for a credible, knowledgeable, dynamic, and innovative midwife with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to support the Regional Chief Midwife in building and sustaining safe, high quality maternity care across London’s maternity services. You will be joining a determined, compassionate, and happy team, working together to improve maternity care for patients and staff across the capital.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide senior specialist midwifery direction and will lead on related activities in relation to their specific portfolio - which will include areas on patient safety, quality improvement, digital improvement and using data to improve safety. The role will play a crucial role in providing clinical advice and support to both providers of maternity services and Local Maternity and Neonatal System Leads within the Integrated Care Boards.
Working for our organisation
In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ .
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Person specification
Essential Criteria
Essential criteria
- Educated to postgraduate level in midwifery. Significant clinical practice and management experience in midwifery.
- Experience of improving maternal and neonatal safety and outcomes, including reducing variation.
- Experience of interpreting performance information to identify risk and issues, ensuring appropriate action is taken to mitigate or respond.
- Experience of disseminating learning from reviews of maternity services (e.g., training, report writing, producing guidance).
- Experience of engaging and developing strong professional links with a range of colleagues within the Trust (i.e., obstetricians and neonatologists) as well as with external organisations such as primary care, LMNS/ICS, London Ambulance or third sector).
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nina Khazaezadeh
- Job title
- Regional Chief Midwife
- Email address
- [email protected]
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