Audit/Guideline Midwife

Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS FT; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS FT in Doncaster invites an experienced midwife to join our maternity and gynaecology team. The role focuses on strengthening clinical governance and patient safety through audits, guideline development, and quality improvement.

You will lead audits, develop and monitor guidelines, and work with multidisciplinary teams to implement improvements across services. UK-based hospital seeks proactive professional committed to high standards of care.

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration essential.
• Teaching and mentorship qualification desirable.
• Educated to degree level with CPD portfolio.
• Leadership/management course desirable.
• QI qualification desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead audits and guideline development for maternity and gynaecology.
• Coordinate programmes of clinical audit to meet national standards.
• Ensure policies are current, evidence-based and compliant.

Skills

NMC registration

Teaching & mentorship

Degree level education

CPD portfolio

Leadership training

Management qualification

Masters qualification

QI qualification

Audit cycles experience

Guideline development

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Patient safety focus

Education

NMC registration

Teaching and mentorship qualification

Degree level education

CPD portfolio documentation

Job description

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced, motivated, and forward-thinking midwife to play a key role in strengthening clinical governance and patient safety within maternity and gynaecology. This is an exciting opportunity to shape high-quality care through robust audit, guideline development, and collaborative improvement work.

You will have strong organisational skills, a passion for patient safety, and the ability to influence and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.

Experience in clinical audit, guideline development, or quality improvement within a healthcare setting is highly desirable.

Main duties of the job

• The Audit and Guideline Midwife will provide clinical leadership for the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of maternity and gynaecology audits, clinical guidelines and quality improvement activities across maternity services.
• The post holder will lead and coordinate programmes of clinical audit to ensure compliance with national standards, regulatory requirements, commissioned services and local quality improvement priorities. They will ensure maternity and Gynaecology policies and guidelines remain evidence-based, current, accessible and compliant with national recommendations and best practice.

About us

DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues. At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions. As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:

• Extensive range of learning opportunities
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditions
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
• NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

Essential

• Current NMC registration is essential
• Teaching and mentorship qualification
• Educated to degree level
• Provide evidence of continuous professional development, documented within CPD portfolio

Desirable

• Evidence of a leadership/management course or equivalent
• Management qualification
• Master's qualification or equivalent knowledge
• QI qualification

Knowledge & experience

Essential

• Significant Midwifery experience in all clinical areas.
• Experience of working across professions and liaison. With the MDT
• Sound knowledge of current professional issues in Midwifery and health provision
• Evidence of involvement in audit cycles and reviewing practice.
• Understanding and experience of guideline development

Desirable

• Previous experience co-ordinating and chairing multidisciplinary meetings.

Personal attributes & skills

Essential

• Effective team worker
• Confident approach
• Good Self-Motivation
• Ability to prioritise work

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS FT

Address

Doncaster and Bassetlaw hospitals (cross-site)
Armthorpe Road
Doncaster
DN2 5LT
United Kingdom