Governance Lead Midwife

Are you a motivated midwife with good organisational skills and experience of working in a hospital? Are you ready to facilitate, coordinate and support maternity & neonatal services to ensure all quality and safety standards and requirements are met? We are excited to announce a fixed-term position for 6 months. This role offers you the opportunity to collaborate with clinical, operational, and governance colleagues, as well as the broader health system, to drive positive change for women and birthing people at Newham University Hospital through the implementation and embedding of the Trust Quality & Safety strategy (including Health & Safety) and the Trust Patient Safety and Incident Framework (PSIRF) within maternity and neonatal services to ensure robust risk management and governance.

Main duties of the job

The post holder co-ordinates and supports the Women Division in ensuring all quality and safety standards and requirements are met. They provide support, monitoring and assurance of service both to the quadrumvirate and the wider organisation ensuring that patient safety events are investigated, managed, and reported; risks are identified, appropriately assessed and managed; the Clinical effectiveness and quality agenda is progressed; and statutory governance requirements are met.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Although this position is a 6 months fixed-term contract, the actual contract duration will be adjusted to account for the time taken to advertise the post, complete the hiring process, and finalise pre-employment checks. This means the contract will begin when the candidate starts the role and may be slightly shorter than 6 months.

Person specification

Experience

• Significant demonstrable experience in governance in an acute setting
• Experience of effective working within a team and alone
• Knowledge of the components of governance, risk management and assurance function

Skills

• Demonstratable enthusiasm and commitment to improvement focused patient safety and quality initiatives, research and its application to practice

Knowledge

• Possess knowledge in the concept of Clinical Governance, Quality Improvement and evidence-based practice