Quality and Safety Lead Midwife | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

This role is a key role within maternity and neonatal services to support the delivery of national and regional safety and quality requirements in addition to ensuring and monitoring a continuous high standard of clinical quality and safety improvements within the service.
The aim of the role is to ensure a robust, clear and supportive approach to developing a positive safety culture across maternity services and key related services including Gynaecology and Neonatal Services.

Act as the divisional lead for the development, co-ordination and implementation of an effective quality and safety framework within the Maternity, Neonatal and Gynaecology Service to ensure an integrated approach to patient safety and embedding a safety culture and early escalation of risks and issues. This will include an approach to: Quality and Safety, Risk Management and the Patient Experience and will include a specific remit to ensure robust processes are in place to meet the service's requirements for providing excellence in the delivery of care.

Actively participate in the delivery of the corporate agenda on the quality and safety agenda alongside the quadrumvirate working closely with the obstetric lead for quality and safety to ensure that processes within Women's and Children's services align.

Lead on and drive improvements to quality and safety within the maternity, gynaecology and neonatal services ensuring compliance with Trust and National policies, guidelines, and legislation.

Lead on and work closely with the Trust Patient Safety, Quality team and LMNS on the implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF).

Responsibility for the liaison and ongoing communication with families and staff who have experienced situations which cause significant emotional distress including significant and profound morbidity, and mortality.

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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Support clinical teams with external reviews, Quality Assurance visits and ensure processes and support in place for on-going monitoring and quality improvement methodology applies to action plans.

Actively participate in the delivery of the corporate agenda on the quality and safety agenda alongside the quadrumvirate working closely with the obstetric lead for quality and safety to ensure that processes within Women's and Children's services align.

Lead on the identification and implementation of the risk and governance strategy across the division.

Ensure the triangulation of information from different data sources to support a robust approach to service development, continuous learning, and improvement.

Undertake, and support others to undertake, detailed incident investigations using a robust and clear process, in line with the patient Safety Strategy (National) which focuses on Human Factors Ergonomics (HFE), system and process service improvements.

Assume the role as overall lead for the umbrella of governance requirements within maternity, linking with gynaecology and neonatal services to ensure a whole picture approach to governance.

To ensure quality and safety is embedded within the clinical areas including the dissemination of risk, audit, learning from excellence complaints and trends are shared.

Provide expert, visible leadership and expert advice on clinical effectiveness, patient safety and quality and co-ordinate all aspects of clinical governance.

Promote a Just, learning, and restorative culture.

Participate in the Maternity Lead On-Call Rota.