Quality and Safety Coordinator

Are you passionate about clinical governance? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a registered Midwife/Nurse to join the Governance team at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS. The post is within the women's and neonatal directorate, focusing on women's, maternity and neonates.

The post holders will work collaboratively within the governance team to support the implementation, monitoring, review, embed strategies and frameworks which underpin the principles of clinical governance within the Women's and Neonatal Services.

The successful candidates will work with the team to maintain and develop robust systems which evaluate and minimise the risk to the organisation, staff, patients and visitors. Ensuring learning is at the forefront from incidents, external reviews, complaints and inquests which support improvements in safety and quality care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work collaboratively within the Quality and Safety team and the wider multidisciplinary team to support the patient safety and quality improvement agenda. They will contribute to creating an organisational patient safety culture that focuses on high quality care standards and prevention of avoidable harm. This will be achieved by using evidence-based practice, lessons learned and data to identify incident themes and areas for improvement.

The post holder will be responsible for supporting effective governance and risk systems across maternity neonatal and gynaecology services. They will work closely and collaboratively with the quality and safety team leaders and the women's services management team to ensure effective communication systems are in place and to ensure excellent standards of care and compliance with national and local standards.

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.