Risk and Governance Midwife

Are you ready to take the next step in your midwifery career and join our small team in this additional post within the Maternity Services? Do you have the motivation, vision, and foresight to join the team, and assist with leading the Patient Safety agenda ?, We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated midwife who is passionate about patient safety. Your role will be fundamental in continuing to ensure a focus on patient safety across the department, as well as support the consolidation and delivery of the new patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF), within a supportive environment. Key to this role is the provision of expert support, advice and guidance on patient safety elements. The risk and governance senior midwife will bring excellent interpersonal skills, work in collaboration and partnership with frontline staff, the Directorate leadership team, clinical leads and key stakeholder across both the organisation and regionally to support the planning and delivery of the Three Year Plan, facilitating and implementing change within the Maternity Services. An important aspect of the role will be to ensure that the Trust continues to meet with key performance indicators and compliance with national standards, supporting the agenda aligned to Better Births, Saving Babies Lives, MSDS, The Maternity Incentive Scheme and the CQC action plan.

• Interview Date Monday 30 December 2024
• 30 Hours/Week, To work as a core member of the maternity patient safety team in supporting and delivering the national and local patient safety agendas and the patient safety incident response framework.
Act as lead co-ordinator for designated incidents (clinical and non-clinical) ensuring that an appropriate review and/ or internal investigation is carried out within the required timeframes Assist the relevant leads to ensure that action plans derived from safety incidents/national reports are delivered. Ensure that themes from incidents are reviewed on a regular basis to ensure learning is shared and actions completed. Assist the department in ensuring that there is compliance with duty of candour and that there is commitment from all professional groups in order to further develop a positive culture of safety, which is open and honest. Ensure compliance with the governance assurance framework, you will motivate colleagues, champion service user safety and dignity and drive continuous improvement.

Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites: o Freeman Hospitalo Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)o Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)o Newcastle Dental Hospitalo Newcastle Fertility Centreo Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbriao Northern Genetics Serviceo Cramlington Manor Walks These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS. We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.