Clinical Effectiveness and Audit Midwife

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Full time
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). We are a University teaching hospital full of hard working and dedicated staff providing community and hospital services across the Morecambe Bay area - an area covering a thousand square miles in south Cumbria and north Lancashire. 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 the achievements are being recognised 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. About us

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 including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre. 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, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses. All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay. Job description

Job responsibilities

To lead and co-ordinate the benchmarking of all regional and national audits. Ensuring action plans are SMART and monitor the progress of the action plans until actions have been completed. Present all regional and national audit reports and action plans to the Womens Health Quality Board. To provide results of all clinical audit, as required for the purposes of business planning, responses to national guidelines, responses to information requests from outside agencies such as the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Person Specification

Application

Essential

Registered Midwife Experience in clinical audit An awareness of National and Local safety initiatives and ambitions Confident in working in an MDT environment. Confident in communicating with all MDT members and AHPs. Desirable

Experience of teaching/training others Recent intrapartum experience Qualification in audit practice Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust Address

Furness General Hospital Barrow LA14 4LF Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply. 331-B12510125

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