Quality Lead Midwife

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Full time
The Quality Lead Midwife within the Birmingham and Solihull Local Maternity and Neonatal services will provide clinical, operational leadership to ensure safe and robust processes within the maternity system.

Work collaboratively with providers to address issues of quality and safety within the Trusts and ensure safety is priority.

Ensure compliance with the three-year single delivery plan, progression with Ockenden recommendations (2020-2022) as well as any further reports relating to Maternity and Neonatal services.

Work alongside local maternity and neonatal system to ensure quality and safety is a golden thread that runs throughout all projects, with particular focus on equity and equality.

Main duties of the job

Clinical oversight and scrutiny of provider contracts ensuring mitigation plans are in place where needed. Use soft and hard intelligence practice to identify any quality issues. Escalating areas of concerns in a timely manner to the LMNS and ICB. Oversight and scrutiny of provider quality reports. Oversight and scrutiny of Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle version 3. Oversight and scrutiny of CNST submissions. Being a champion for quality in BSol care system. Ensuring advocacy for service users and staff. Attend senior meetings. Working with Independent Chair to produce reports for System Quality Group.

About us

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children, and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care and more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neonatal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single-site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year, offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity, and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners, FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity, and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Midwife/Midwife 1st level with demonstrated post-registration professional development and appropriate experience as a registered midwife. Education to degree level or equivalent with a master's degree or equivalent higher-level demonstration of competency. Evidence of continued professional development. Current NMC/GMC register. Evidence of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment. Demonstrated experience of coordinating projects in complex and challenging environments. Experience of managing risks and reporting.

Experience

Essential

Extensive experience in the development of systems and processes in support of quality improvement. Experience in monitoring and assuring quality of care in healthcare settings. Extensive experience of working in the NHS including working in acute care settings. Experience in commissioning for quality/service improvement and performance management with an impact on outcomes. Experience of working across multiple organisational and agency boundaries to achieve demonstrable outcomes and improvements in the quality of care/patient experience.

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Address

90 Vincent Drive

Edgbaston B15 2SQ

Birmingham

B15 2SQ

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