Guidelines and Audits Specialist Midwife

The Audit and Guidelines Specialist Midwife will be responsible for ensuring the co-ordination of the clinical audit programme within Maternity Services. The post holder will provide expert advice and promote clinical audit and quality improvement and assurance projects relevant to Maternity Services.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the coordination of evidence-based guidelines (including Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) and Policies and Patient Information). Working in close collaboration with the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) and wider Quality and Safety team in coproduction of relevant maternity documents within the Women's and Newborn Division.

The post holder will provide support with aspects of the quality governance agenda under the guidance of the Quality and Safety Matron (Maternity and Neonates)., To facilitate the clinical audit programme within Maternity and Neonatal Services incorporating local and national audit requirements that support clinical effectiveness.

To facilitate the development of Clinical Audit & Effectiveness activity plans, working collaboratively with the Trust Clinical Audit Team and the multidisciplinary team within the Maternity Unit.

Participate in inter professional working to ensure annual audit programmes incorporate audit and effectiveness projects to meet the organisation's governance objectives.

To consult and provide advice to clinical staff on the design and development of proposed audit projects, as wellwriting guidelines, ensuring that they are benchmarked against National Guidelines and are reviewed timely manner.

To ensure a robust repository of guidelines in maternity are monitored and maintained

To provide written and verbal reports and presentations of completed audit projects and the current status of guidelines to the relevant multi-professionals' groups.

To support the Governance Team in its work plan to demonstrate compliance with CQC, MIS and SBLCB V3 requirements.

Consult and provide advice to clinical staff on the design and development of proposed updates to guidelines. This may include carrying out literature searches.

To contribute to dissemination of information relating to audit and quality governance across relevant staff groups.

Promote an evidence-based learning culture through the use of clinical audit.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.