Audit Lead Midwife

Health Jobs UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider in Greater London is seeking a dedicated Midwife to enhance clinical quality through audits and Quality Improvement initiatives. The role involves developing clinical audit programmes, monitoring compliance with healthcare standards, and actively participating in improving maternity services. Interested candidates should possess a Registered Midwife qualification, a degree, and experience in clinical audit or quality assurance. This position offers opportunities for learning and development within a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with current registration.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
• Teaching qualification or equivalent / Mentorship Qualification/ Practice Assessor.

Responsibilities

• Support the maternity team with clinical audits and compliance.
• Lead Quality Improvements initiatives and present findings.
• Develop robust clinical audit programmes and monitor quality.

Skills

Clinical audit experience

Implementation of Quality Improvement initiatives

Understanding of Clinical Governance

Ability to lead quality improvement projects

Effective communication

Education

Registered Midwife qualification

Degree level education

Teaching/Mentorship qualification

Tools

Healthcare clinical IT systems

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Job description

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers' money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

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Job overview

North Middlesex Maternity: "A career in Midwifery, not just a job."

We are looking for a midwife who has experience clinical audit, has experience of being involved with or implementing Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives and can demonstrate an excellent understanding of Clinical Governance.

Here at North Middlesex maternity, we can offer you a career, not just a job. Our midwives are supported in their learning and development to help them to reach their full potential. This includes secondment opportunities within specialist teams, shadowing opportunities with members of the senior team, leadership programmes and Chief Nurse fellowship programmes. There is also the chance to be part of the talent management process.

Main duties of the job

The purpose of the post is to support the maternity team to understand compliance with local and national standards through clinical audit. This will ensure that every woman receives high quality care throughout their maternity journey. The post holder will co-ordinate and have oversight of clinical audit within the department and be able to present the findings to a multi-disciplinary audience.

They will lead on or work collaboratively on Quality Improvements initiatives, implementing, evaluating and reporting back on progress.

Working for our organisation

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London's busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients' wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities:

• To develop and implement robust and effective clinical audit programmes which support the compliance framework and fulfil all mandatory requirements for data submissions internal and external to the Trust
• To monitor the quality of clinical audit projects in line with the Trust clinical audit policy
• To develop and implement directorate wide audit processes that will effectively monitor clinical practice to ensure continuous improvement, compliance, and effectiveness.
• To provide expert advice and to promote clinical audit and quality assurance projects at all levels of staff within the Directorate
• To facilitate the implementation of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), external publications and eternal assessments programmes this will include the associated audit programmes.
• To develop and implement processes to effectively monitor clinical practice via care pathways, ensuring continuous improvement, compliance, and effectiveness
• To facilitate, support and coordinate a rolling programme of clinical audit projects, evidence-based practice and audit based on maternity priorities and specialty specific requirements.
• Utilise information from incidents, complaints and claims to inform the audit programme
• Work in partnership with the Consultant Audit Lead and the trust governance and compliance team to ensure that clinical audits required to demonstrate NICE compliance are carried out effectively, ensuring that appropriate action is taken to achieve improvements in the quality of patient care
• Where possible staff across all clinical areas should be included in the audit process and the post holder should be aware of any project work being carried out by staff (eg. Florence Nightingale Foundation Fellows) to give support and guidance.
• Work in conjunction with the Patient First team to identify and implement transformation and service improvement practices across the organization
• Analyse and interpret data in relation to current service practice.
• Benchmark data and findings against local and national expectations.
• Work autonomously and lead on local, national and external audits.
• Development of Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Timely (SMART) action plans.
• To develop an audit template supportive of local, national and external recommendations.
• Undertake related governance activities within the maternity services and wider as required.
• To lead and co-ordinate the recommendations and action plans of all audits to provide assurance that the maternity services are achieving and working towards continual quality improvements in clinical practice.
• Lead on quality assurance of ongoing projects, by monitoring good audit practice and ensuring that audit projects are completed to agreed timescales.
• Ensure audit findings are presented to appropriate groups to agree practice improvements and monitor the implementation of agreed changes in practice through re-audits as appropriate.
• Delegate selected tasks to other department staff where appropriate. Such as but not limited to data collection, data input and basic data analysis.
• Support the production of, written or electronic reports to reflect the outcome of projects, using agreed templates where appropriate.
• Support the Trust's participation in National clinical audit projects.
• Participate in the provision of quarterly reports

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

• Registered Midwife with current registration.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Teaching qualification or equivalent / Mentorship Qualification/ Practice Assessor

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of QI methodology
• Involvement in research and audit programme

Experience

Essential criteria

• Audit of guidelines and compliance
• A good understanding of current and emerging issues relating maternity and the NHS.
• Knowledge of specialist areas, e.g.: CQC standards and regulatory requirements, CNST Maternity Incentive Scheme, NHSLA, Ockenden, Better Births etc
• Ability to lead on quality improvement projects and compliance
• Ability to prepare and deliver presentations to a group of people.
• Ability to work as part a multidisciplinary team
• Service development experience, delivering clinical quality improvements and successful service change
• Experience of working with healthcare clinical IT systems
• Can demonstrate an understanding of how digital technology can support safer care

Desirable criteria

• Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS) and ability to apply the finding to improve service delivery.
• Good understanding of digital systems and advances to develop and manage electronic patient records

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Ability to work within set timeframes working to priorities and deadlines
• Ability to monitor the quality of own and others work
• Able to recognise own limits and work within those limits of competence
• Report Writing Skills
• Presentation Skills
• IT Literate (MS WP/Excel & PowerPoint)
• Change Management
• Innovative Practice
• Research and Audit
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels across the Department and Trust.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and oral

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of QI methodology
• Involvement in research and audit programme

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Ability to demonstrate enthusiasm towards teaching and sharing knowledge.
• Understanding of own knowledge and skills
• Framework and ability to identify learning needs and interest
• Ability to self-reflect, carry out tasks of own job and identify learning needs and interests
• Ability to take an active role in agreed learning activities and keeps a record of them
• Demonstrates a greater understanding of learning needs and evidence of facilitation skills
• Motivated to working by self or with others: guided by professional principles and set defined parameters
• The ability to communication with patients in an empathetic manner.
• Can demonstrate an enthusiastic, approachable and friendly manner.

Trust Values

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values

Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.

Please note:

• Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
• Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
• Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

Please be advised that due to exceptionally high demand, all Royal Free accommodation is at full capacity and waiting lists are being held. Average waiting times are 12 months. Please do not rely on Trust accommodation when you commence your role and ensure you investigate alternative accommodation for your arrival.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job description ( PDF , 520.3 KB )
• Personal Specification ( PDF , 520.3 KB )
• Functional Requirements ( PDF , 392.1 KB )