Lead Midwife for Patient Safety

NHS; Camberley; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization in the UK is seeking a Lead Midwife for Patient Safety to provide strategic and operational leadership within maternity services. You will oversee compliance with national safety standards, lead investigations, and champion a transparent and equitable safety culture. The ideal candidate will be a registered midwife with strong experience in clinical governance and change management. This full-time position offers an attractive salary and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

First-class development opportunities

Flexible working patterns

Qualifications

• Experience managing a ward area or labour ward.
• Experience in clinical audit and quality issues.
• Experience in guideline development and implementation.
• Experience influencing clinical governance processes.
• Experience undertaking midwifery research.
• Demonstrated change management and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for patient safety in maternity services.
• Chair the Maternity Patient Safety Group and lead investigations.
• Ensure compliance with national safety requirements.
• Monitor safety outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
• Promote a 'Just Culture' for psychological safety.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

Registered Midwife currently on NMC register

Diploma in Clinical Risk management or other relevant study

Mentorship/PSPA/SLIP or equivalent

Leadership/management training

Evidence of CPD

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Frimley Park Hospital as the Lead Midwife for Patient Safety. As part of this full-time permanent opportunity you will work within the Clinical Governance Team.

This role is a clinical split:

• 20% of time will be spent in the clinical area, with responsibility for shift management of the labour ward or the maternity ward area.
• 80% of time will be spent undertaking risk management duties.

The purpose of this role is to provide strategic and operational leadership for patient safety within maternity services. The post holder will lead the implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), ensuring the service moves beyond traditional risk management toward a proactive, systems-based learning culture. The post holder will ensure the service meets all national safety requirements (CQC, MIS and MNSI), while maintaining clinical credibility through active shift coordination.

Main duties of the job

• Safety leadership: Chair of the Maternity Patient Safety Group and lead investigator for complex clinical incidents.
• Compliance: Primary lead for evidencing Safety Actions 1 and 10 of the Maternity Incentive Scheme (MIS).
• Culture: Champion of a 'Just Culture', ensuring psychological safety for staff and transparency for service users.
• Equity: Monitoring safety outcomes to reduce health inequalities in line with MBRRACE-UK findings.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too. We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users. Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo

Job responsibilities

For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife currently on NMC register
• Mentorship/PSPA/SLIP or equivalent
• Evidence of CPD
• Diploma in Clinical Risk management or other relevant study
• Leadership/management training

Experience

• Experience of managing a ward area/or labour ward.
• Experience of clinical audit/quality issues within the health care setting.
• Experience in guideline development and implementation.
• Experience of implementing and influencing clinical governance processes
• Experience of undertaking midwifery research.
• Able to demonstrate successful change management and innovation.

Skills & Knowledge

• Interpersonal skills.

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.

Clinical Governance and Quality Lead - Maternity

£50,008 to £56,908 a yearper annum incl HCAS