Deputy Associate Director of Midwifery: Lead for Quality and Safety

CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a passionate leader to oversee clinical governance within maternity services. This pivotal role involves ensuring compliance with quality standards and fostering a culture of safety and excellence. The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to drive improvements and inspire innovation. With a commitment to delivering gold standard care, this position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on patient safety and service quality in a dynamic environment. Join a forward-thinking organization on its journey to excellence and help shape the future of maternity care.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of governance and assurance mechanisms.
• Ability to analyze national standards and develop action plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead the multi-disciplinary governance team in maternity services.
• Ensure compliance with quality standards and clinical governance framework.

Skills

Clinical Governance

Quality Assurance

Risk Management

Leadership

Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Education

Degree in Nursing or Midwifery

Postgraduate Qualification in Governance

Job description

We are one of three maternity sites, under the Barts Health Trust, delivering approximately 5,200 births annually to a diverse population. Our dedicated team includes over 200 midwives, 20 consultants, and a multi-professional staff of anaesthetists, sonographers, and neonatal experts.

The post holder will lead the multi-disciplinary governance team, ensuring the effective implementation of a comprehensive and systematic approach to clinical governance. They must understand the principles of safety, quality assurance, and the governance framework pertinent to maternity services, with the ability to analyse national standards and develop action plans. Knowledge of relevant quality improvement and assurance principles is essential.

Close working and liaison with multidisciplinary professionals to ensure triangulation of information and intelligence across the service, division, and trust will be fundamental to support our teams and deliver our best service in a busy multi-site maternity service.

As an exceptional leader with in-depth knowledge of governance, assurance mechanisms, and national standards, you will inspire confidence and innovation among our incredible workforce.

The applicant will have a passion for governance and gold standard care within maternity services and be able to provide statutory and regulatory assurance regarding the quality and safety of the care we deliver.

Education

The primary aim of the role is to provide assurance that the maternity services have established guidelines, processes and procedures that facilitates ongoing 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. The post holder will:

• 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 across all sites. Work closely with the Associate Director of Midwifery and Nursing, the Clinical Delivery Group triumvirate, and the Trust Governance Team.
• Work in partnership with the senior obstetric and midwifery team to assist in driving forward the wider Maternity leadership, operational, governance and strategic agendas.
  
  

The role will provide oversight of the strategic and operational delivery of all aspects of quality assurance pertinent to the business of clinical governance in maternity that is safety centric, as well as demonstrating that good quality governance is understood and practised across all professional groups within the maternity service.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nicole Callender Job title: ADOM Email address: [e-mail]