Bank Quality Governance Lead

Bedfordshire Hospitals; Bedford; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced leader to drive the development and implementation of the Maternity Quality Assurance Framework and the MatNeoIst improvements. You will provide strategic and operational leadership across quality governance, clinical effectiveness, patient safety, audit, risk management, education and research.

You will work closely with the Director of Midwifery, Clinical Director and General Manager to embed robust governance arrangements,

Qualifications

• Senior clinical governance experience with evidence of leading improvement programmes.
• Experience translating incidents and audits into measurable improvements.
• Strong stakeholder engagement across multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead on development and embedding of the Quality Assurance Framework.
• Ensure compliance with local and national quality standards in maternity services.
• Oversee clinical governance, patient safety, risk management, and education.
• Provide assurance through reporting to senior governance forums.
• Collaborate with senior clinical leaders to progress governance milestones.

Skills

Quality governance

Clinical governance

Patient safety

Leadership

Audit & assurance

Education & training

Research & improvement

Stakeholder management

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field

Postgraduate qualification in quality improvement or leadership

Tools

Lean

Six Sigma

Quality improvement methods

Job description

Are you passionate about improving quality, safety and governance in maternity services? We are seeking an experienced and motivated leader to drive the development and implementation of our Maternity Quality Assurance Framework and support delivery of the MatNeo Intensive Support and Governance Review improvements.

Working closely with the Director of Midwifery, Clinical Director, General Manager and wider multidisciplinary teams, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across quality governance, clinical effectiveness, patient safety, audit, risk management, education and research. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring robust governance arrangements, embedding continuous improvement, and assuring compliance with local and national quality standards.

This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic leader with strong clinical governance experience, excellent stakeholder management skills, and a passion for improving outcomes for women, babies and families.

Join us and help shape the future of maternity quality assurance and governance excellence.

Main duties of the job

The primary aim of the role is to support the development and embedding of the Quality Assurance Framework, including the implementation of the outcomes of the MatNeoIst governance review at BHFT. The role will provide assurance that the maternity services have established guidelines, processes and procedures that facilitates on-going plan for consistent compliance with all locally and nationally agreed quality standards based on clinical governance framework. These are in the domains of clinical audit, effectiveness, risk management, education, training and research.

Working for our organisation

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Lead on the development of quality assurance framework, including the outcomes of the outcomes of the MatNeoIst governance review.

• Lead on monitoring standards of a range of clinical governance, clinical effectiveness and patient safety activity, in liaison with other multidisciplinary professionals and functional heads within the Maternity and Quality and Safety Team with direct line management of these teams on both sites.
• Work closely with the Director of Midwifery, Clinical Director and General Manager to progress the Quality Services Assurance Framework, and the MatNeoIst Milestones
• Work closely with the Head of Women’s Governance and Quality Improvement, Heads of Midwifery and the Divisional triumvirate and the Trust Governance Team.
• Maintain strong working relationships with clinical colleagues.
• Ensure the triangulation of information and intelligence from across the Service, the division and the Trust, in order to provide leadership and direction in relation to Quality Governance, Effectiveness and Quality Improvements.
• Work in partnership with the senior obstetric and midwifery team to assist in driving forward the wider Maternity leadership, operational and strategic agendas.

Person specification

Qualifications and professional registration

• Registered Midwife and / or Registered Nurse Master’s degree or equivalent experience Formal qualification in Quality Improvement, Project Management, or Leadership (e.g. Lean, Six Sigma,)
• Postgraduate qualification in quality improvement, patient safety, leadership, Formal coaching, teaching, programme/project management or human factors qualification.

Experience

• Senior experience in, clinical governance, patient safety, quality improvement or a closely related healthcare improvement role. Experience of leading complex improvement programmes across multidisciplinary and multi-professional teams.
• Experience of translating learning from incidents, complaints, claims, inquests, audits, service reviews or external recommendations into measurable improvement. Experience of producing high-quality reports, assurance papers, briefings and improvement updates for senior governance forums.
• Experience of maternity and neonatal improvement or assurance programmes, including CNST, Saving Babies’ Lives, Ockenden, Baroness Amos, MatNeoIST, CQC or equivalent national recommendations.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of maternity and neonatal safety priorities, national policy expectations, regulatory requirements and improvement recommendations. Understanding of health inequalities, equity, co-production, service user voice and inclusive approaches to improvement.
• Knowledge of implementation science, evaluation methods, research governance or evidence-based practice. Understanding of NHS job evaluation, workforce planning, organisational development or culture improvement approaches.

It is an exciting time to join Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.