Clinical Patient Safety Lead for Maternity | Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust; Pembury; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in south-east England is seeking a Safety and Governance lead to ensure clinical effectiveness and patient safety within Women’s Services. You will provide leadership in establishing strategies for governance and work closely with clinical teams to manage risks. This role includes comprehensive benefits, flexible working, and the opportunity to contribute to a pioneering healthcare environment.

Benefits

At least 27 days of annual leave

Membership in NHS Pension Scheme

Blue Light card eligibility

Qualifications

• Experience in governance and clinical safety.
• Leadership skills within a multi-professional team.
• Ability to implement and monitor clinical risk management strategies.

Responsibilities

• Manage the governance agenda for Women’s Services.
• Implement Clinical Risk Management and Safety Strategy.
• Oversee the governance team and work with clinical staff on risk.

Job description

Overview

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within organisations under the Kent and Medway ICB.

The Safety and Governance lead will manage the governance agenda for Women’s Services ensuring systems and processes are in place and adhered to for clinical effectiveness and patient safety. The post holder will provide leadership, guidance and expertise within the wider multi-professional team for quality and governance. This will include putting in place strategies and frameworks that ensure services meet national, regional and local standards for good governance.

The post holder will implement and monitor the Clinical Risk Management and Safety Strategy for Women’s Services in line with the Trust’s Clinical Risk Management Strategy. They will oversee the governance team in working with clinical staff to identify risks, review risk assessments, report risks appropriately and will ensure that necessary actions are identified and completed and that learning takes place.

The person will be required to participate in the on-call provision.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Head of Maternity Governance, the senior management and directorate teams within Maternity to ensure that the service meets the statutory requirements and standards for Patient Safety Governance.
• Responsible for leading the maternity patient safety agenda and ensure a unified approach to the review of patient safety incidents across the service, in line with the Trust Policies & Procedures and best practice guidance.
• Be regularly visible / present in clinical areas, encouraging interaction with all groups of staff and gathering ‘soft’ data to enable triangulation of data and establish effective working relationships.
• Work closely with the other quality governance teams within the Trust to ensure meaningful and proactive triangulation of data.
• Act as a focal point for incident reporting within Maternity and encourage all staff to make use of the In-phase reporting system and share resulting good practice and lessons learned.
• Escalation of incidents within Maternity that meet the Trust Patient Safety Incident Response Plan to the weekly Risk Review meeting and to the Patient Safety Incident Review Group (PSIRG).

About the Trust

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust ranks among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and was named the second-best Trust to work for in the South East in the 2023 and 2024 NHS Staff Survey.

We are a large acute hospital trust in south-east England, providing general hospital services and specialist care to around 600,000 residents in West Kent and East Sussex. With a dedicated and diverse team of over 8,000 staff we are proud to offer specialised cancer services to over two million people through the Kent Oncology Centre.

Fordcombe Hospital, near Tunbridge Wells, became part of the Trust in October 2024. Specialising in planned care, it offers two operating theatres, 28 inpatient and day-care beds, diagnostic services (X-ray, MRI, CT, and endoscopy), and consultation/treatment rooms.

Flexible working

Looking for flexible working? We are a flexible working-friendly organisation. Whether it’s adjusting your hours or exploring other flexible arrangements, we want to work with you to find the best solution for you, our patients, and the Trust. Talk to us about how we can accommodate your working needs.

Joining us

Joining us includes a comprehensive benefits package:

• At least 27 days of annual leave plus public/bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Membership in the NHS Pension Scheme, with a 20.6% employer contribution and life assurance benefits
• Blue Light card eligibility
• And more, additional benefits can be found in the benefits documents below

Application guidance

We’ve provided all the details you need about this role in the job description and person specification. Please take a moment to review the criteria in the person specification and share specific examples in your application that demonstrate how you meet these requirements. Please also check your application for errors/omissions prior to submission.

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Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check at Enhanced Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children). If a role involves regulated activity and requires a DBS check with a barred list check, you cannot apply if you are on the barred list.

All successful applicants will be required to complete our corporate trust induction once a start date had been agreed.

Following your corporate induction you will be expected to attend the Trust’s 2-week Induction Programme for RNs, NAs, RMs, ODPs and Paramedics. The programme is full-time (please email [e-mail] if this is problematic) and will involve travel to both Trust sites. The programme includes supernumerary shifts in the clinical area, classroom-based sessions and e-learning.

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This advert closes on Wednesday 1 Oct 2025