Deputy Associate Director of Midwifery: Lead for Quality and Safety

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a dedicated leader for their maternity services. This role involves overseeing clinical governance and ensuring the delivery of high-quality care. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient safety and quality assurance while driving strategic initiatives. If you are passionate about governance and wish to make a significant impact in maternity services, this is an exciting opportunity for you to lead and innovate in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• NMC Registered Midwife with a degree in Midwifery.
• Experience in clinical governance and quality assurance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the multi-disciplinary governance team for maternity services.
• Ensure compliance with clinical governance standards and guidelines.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Governance

Quality Improvement

Interpersonal Skills

Analytical Skills

Decision-Making

Communication

Education

Degree in Midwifery

Masters in Health Related Subject

Job description

Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

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.

Details Date posted

08 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£70,387 to £80,465 a year per annum inc

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

259-7196074RLH

Job locations

Royal London Hospital

London

E1 1FR

Job description Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Job description Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification Experience Essential

• Recent experience in clinical practice related to post.
• Experience of midwifery practice in hospital and community settings.
• High degree of professional development.
• Can demonstrate expertise in midwifery practice.
• Previous experience of clinical research or audit.
• Experience in setting and achieving objectives/KPI's.
• Experience in writing reports/presenting Information internally/externally in a timely manner to a range of Senior Managers.
• Demonstrable experience of leading change and problem solving in clinical settings, patient care and experience.
• Evidence and experience in delivering midwifery operational and strategic performance including strategic safe staffing and skill mix reviews, infection control, risk management, complaints and adverse incidents across a range of services.
• Experience of working on own initiative and as part of a team working with local and external terms, acting as an ambassador of a speciality.

Desirable

• Previous publication of own work.
• Previous experience of working with pre and post registration students of multiple disciplines.

Skills Essential

• Able to demonstrate effective leadership style that is , able to build confidence / motivate staff including the ability to encourage self-initiative, good practice and completion of projects within team environments.
• Well developed interpersonal skills with the ability to lead, influence and negotiate with staff at all levels internally and externally.
• Advanced decision-making skills with the ability to think, plan and deliver strategically
• Ability to analyse complex clinical issues/problems, identify necessary actions and make recommendations in order to follow these through
• Ability to write reports in short, changing timescales whilst subject to frequent interruptions requiring immediate responses.
• Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines.
• Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary form more senior management when appropriate.
• Possess excellent written and oral presentation and organisational skills.
• Ability to influence, motivate and lead teams of staff in an open and transparent management style.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Proven track record in staff management / supervision / coordination at a senior nursing level.
• Effective advanced communication skills, ability to produce and comment on complex reports, policies, protocols and guidelines.
• Effective advanced communication skills, ability to produce and comment on complex reports, policies, protocols and guidelines.

Knowledge Essential

• Possess expertise in the concept of Clinical Governance, Quality Improvement and evidence-based practice associate with the portfolio.
• Can demonstrate working knowledge of relevant statue, intercollegiate guidance, literature, research and legislation relating to quality and safety of patient care, with a clear understanding and knowledge of National Policy directives/ changes associated with nursing / midwifery practice.
• Knowledge of and use of computers in health care.
• Can demonstrate a working knowledge of Health & Safety legislation,
• Able to think strategically and translate vision for local service into delivery by collaboration and partnership.

Qualifications Essential

• Midwife NMC Registered Practitioner
• Degree in Midwifery Masters level study in a Health Related Subject (or working towards)
• Evidence of recent post registration continuous professional development / qualification

Desirable

• Project Management/Service Improvement
• Qualification Professional Midwifery Advocate

Person Specification Experience Essential

• Recent experience in clinical practice related to post.
• Experience of midwifery practice in hospital and community settings.
• High degree of professional development.
• Can demonstrate expertise in midwifery practice.
• Previous experience of clinical research or audit.
• Experience in setting and achieving objectives/KPI's.
• Experience in writing reports/presenting Information internally/externally in a timely manner to a range of Senior Managers.
• Demonstrable experience of leading change and problem solving in clinical settings, patient care and experience.
• Evidence and experience in delivering midwifery operational and strategic performance including strategic safe staffing and skill mix reviews, infection control, risk management, complaints and adverse incidents across a range of services.
• Experience of working on own initiative and as part of a team working with local and external terms, acting as an ambassador of a speciality.

Desirable

• Previous publication of own work.
• Previous experience of working with pre and post registration students of multiple disciplines.

Skills Essential

• Able to demonstrate effective leadership style that is , able to build confidence / motivate staff including the ability to encourage self-initiative, good practice and completion of projects within team environments.
• Well developed interpersonal skills with the ability to lead, influence and negotiate with staff at all levels internally and externally.
• Advanced decision-making skills with the ability to think, plan and deliver strategically
• Ability to analyse complex clinical issues/problems, identify necessary actions and make recommendations in order to follow these through
• Ability to write reports in short, changing timescales whilst subject to frequent interruptions requiring immediate responses.
• Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines.
• Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary form more senior management when appropriate.
• Possess excellent written and oral presentation and organisational skills.
• Ability to influence, motivate and lead teams of staff in an open and transparent management style.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Proven track record in staff management / supervision / coordination at a senior nursing level.
• Effective advanced communication skills, ability to produce and comment on complex reports, policies, protocols and guidelines.
• Effective advanced communication skills, ability to produce and comment on complex reports, policies, protocols and guidelines.

Knowledge Essential

• Possess expertise in the concept of Clinical Governance, Quality Improvement and evidence-based practice associate with the portfolio.
• Can demonstrate working knowledge of relevant statue, intercollegiate guidance, literature, research and legislation relating to quality and safety of patient care, with a clear understanding and knowledge of National Policy directives/ changes associated with nursing / midwifery practice.
• Knowledge of and use of computers in health care.
• Can demonstrate a working knowledge of Health & Safety legislation,
• Able to think strategically and translate vision for local service into delivery by collaboration and partnership.

Qualifications Essential

• Midwife NMC Registered Practitioner
• Degree in Midwifery Masters level study in a Health Related Subject (or working towards)
• Evidence of recent post registration continuous professional development / qualification

Desirable

• Project Management/Service Improvement
• Qualification Professional Midwifery Advocate

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Royal London Hospital

London

E1 1FR

Employer's website

https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Royal London Hospital

London

E1 1FR

Employer's website

https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)