Clinical Governance and Risk Midwife

Cencora | Pharma solutions; Cwmbran; On-site; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is seeking an experienced Midwife to lead governance in maternity services. This role involves ensuring high standards of care, patient safety, and compliance with national standards, along with fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Benefits

Flexible working

Paid mandatory training

Career development opportunities

Occupational health support

Qualifications

• Current Midwifery professional registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• Evidence of appropriate post registration CPD.
• Understanding of NHS structure and processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead on the governance and risk agenda within maternity services.
• Ensure quality of care and patient experience.
• Provide oversight of patient safety incidents.

Skills

Leadership

Risk Management

Patient Safety

Education

Masters Degree

Job description

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed. Please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3.

If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.

Job Overview

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has a drive, passion and commitment to patient safety and clinical effectiveness. We have an exciting opportunity for a Midwife with significant experience and passion for improvement in care to develop their leadership and management within the governance and risk agenda. You would be joining a supportive team, with a keen focus on the patient safety agenda, providing visible senior leadership and direction regarding the governance agenda. The post holder will work with the Head of Midwifery, the Senior Midwifery team and clinical leads and the wider organisation. Working collaboratively with the Corporate Quality, Patient Safety and Learning team to ensure seamless clinical governance pathways are in place and that the quality of care and clinical effectiveness is to the highest standard . The post holder will foster multidisciplinary working and promote a safety culture and awareness of risk management to ensure excellent standards of care and that there is compliance with local and national standards. Effective oversight of investigations, including duty of candour will be required alongside the provision of high quality data and information, and evidence of learning. The post holder will actively engage with and enable staff to be involved in incident reporting and promote an open and just culture.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will take the lead on the governance and risk agenda within maternity services, to ensure that the quality of care, patient experience, and clinical effectiveness is to the highest standard. They will ensure effective assurance and monitoring processes are in place. The post holder will provide oversight of patient safety incidents and promote an honest and just culture with learning that will encompass local and national theme.

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current Midwifery professional registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council
• Masters Degree or equivalent demonstrable knowledge and experience
• Evidence of appropriate post registration CPD
  
  

Desirable criteria

• IQT Bronze/ Improvement Cymru - Improvement Basics
• Trained in Root Cause Analysis / Serious Incident Investigation process
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of co-ordinating the quality and safety function within a healthcare environment
• Experience of leading clinical audit
• Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience of analysing interpret governance information to inform and identify solutions
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of line management of staff
• Experience of implementing quality improvement methodologies.
• Experience in report writing and delivering presentations.
  
  

Skills and Attributes

Essential criteria

• Understanding of NHS structure and processes including, regulation and evolving governmental approaches.
• Understanding of processes of standard setting, assessment and assurance within the NHS
• Understanding of the principles and practice of the legal framework relevant to risk management, investigation and mitigation in the context of governance in the NHS
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh