NHS AfC: Band 7
Main area: Audit Midwife Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract: Permanent Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref: 331-B12510125 Site: Furness General Hospital Town: Barrow Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum Pro Rata Salary period: Yearly Closing: Today at 23:59 Creating a great place to be cared for and a great place to work University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce and therefore welcomes and encourages applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive. We are particularly keen to hear from protected groups – including BAME, LGBT+ and people with a disability. Job Overview
Are you passionate about Patient Safety? Do you have the relevant skills to promote and facilitate the development of effective governance, risk and assurance? Are you able to provide advice and contribute solutions to our clinical effectiveness and clinical quality agenda? If so, look no further... We are the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT), a University teaching hospital full of hard-working and dedicated staff providing community and hospital services across the Morecambe Bay area. Our Trust is looking to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated and dedicated individual to join our Governance team within our Women's and Children's Care Group as a Clinical Effectiveness and Audit Midwife. Quality shines throughout the Trust, and the awards that our Care Groups, corporate teams, and individuals have either won or been shortlisted for show that achievements are being recognized at a national level. Main Duties of the Job
To be responsible alongside the Lead Consultants for Audit for coordinating and overseeing all clinical audits undertaken within the Maternity, Obstetrics, and Gynaecology services, working with relevant multi-professional leads to ensure agreed deadlines are met. To conduct audits and develop and monitor action plans to ensure recommendations/actions are embedded into clinical practice and that assurance is provided to the Specialty and Care Group Leads. Working for Our Organisation
We operate from three main hospitals: Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises. FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units, and various Consultant-led services. WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre. All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, daycase, and inpatient surgery. Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
To lead and coordinate the benchmarking of all regional and national audits, ensuring action plans are SMART and monitoring the progress of the action plans until actions have been completed. Present all regional and national audit reports and action plans to the Women’s Health Quality Board. To provide results of all clinical audit, as required for the purposes of business planning, responses to national guidelines, and responses to information requests from outside agencies such as the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Person Specification
Registered Midwife Experience in clinical audit An awareness of National and Local safety initiatives and ambitions Confident in working in an MDT environment and communicating with all MDT members and AHPs Experience of teaching/training others Qualification in audit practice The Behavioural Standards Framework Everybody’s responsibility in everything we do. PLEASE NOTE THAT SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL. The Trust promotes flexible working opportunities to enable staff to balance their work and home life. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be Effortlessly Inclusive. The Trust operates a No Smoking Policy. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our Person Specification will be shortlisted for Interview. We reserve the right to close a job advert early where sufficient applications have been received. The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020. Name: Carey Galbraith Job title: Quality, Safety and Assurance Lead Midwife Email address: carey.galbraith@mbht.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01524583850
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