Maternity Governance Lead

NHS Jobs; Langstone; In loco; GBP 70.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

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NHS Jobs in the United Kingdom is seeking a Maternity Governance Lead to drive senior governance for maternity services, ensuring patient safety, risk management, and continuous improvement. You will lead oversight of incidents, learning, and compliance with standards, reporting to the Director of Midwifery and collaborating with the wider governance community.

The role requires authoritative clinical leadership, strong collaboration across obstetric and neonatal teams, and a commitment to a

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• Provide senior leadership and oversight of maternity governance, risk, quality and patient safety systems, supporting effective assurance and escalation.
• Provide oversight of the review and management of patient safety incidents, ensuring themes, trends, risks and opportunities for improvement are identified and acted upon.
• Ensure learning from incidents, complaints, audits, patient feedback and external reviews is translated into measurable and sustainable improvements in practice.
• Support assurance against local and national maternity standards, regulatory requirements and organisational quality priorities, identifying and escalating areas of concern.
• Lead and support the preparation and presentation of high-quality governance, safety and assurance reports to relevant committees and forums.
• Strengthen systems for audit, action planning, monitoring and evidence of impact, ensuring actions are completed effectively and improvements are sustained.
• Promote a culture of openness, learning, psychological safety and continuous improvement.
• Champion a just and learning culture, supporting teams to learn from excellence as well as when care does not go as planned.
• Ensure the voices and experiences of women, birthing people and families inform maternity governance, learning and improvement.
• Work collaboratively across professional, organisational and geographical boundaries to strengthen maternity and neonatal safety and improve outcomes and experience.
• Provide visible senior professional leadership, supporting colleagues to understand their responsibilities for quality, safety, governance and escalation.
• The interview will involve a stakeholder presentation session followed by a panel interview. Interviews will be held on Monday 30th November 2026.

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Job Purpose: The role of Maternity Governance Lead is to work closely and on behalf of the maternity senior leadership team providing leadership and co-ordination of patient safety and clinical quality governance within the Maternity and in doing so support the Maternitys delivery of high quality, safe services and in compliance with regulations. To support the maternity team to provide integrated governance agenda to ensure that the maternity meet the requirements of the trust's framework and to work closely and report as required and to be accountable to the Director of Midwifery, reports to the Head of the Midwifery and works closely with the corporate Associate Director of Governance regarding governance, compliance quality, and safety. Collaborate with the Governance lead on the IWT to align processes and reporting. Provide senior clinical leadership in the maternity and participate on the Senior Manager on Call for Maternity services.

Key Responsibilities

Working closely with the Director and Head of Midwifery, obstetric and neonatal colleagues, patient safety teams and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will: Provide senior leadership and oversight of maternity governance, risk, quality and patient safety systems, supporting effective assurance and escalation. Provide oversight of the review and management of patient safety incidents, ensuring themes, trends, risks and opportunities for improvement are identified and acted upon. Ensure learning from incidents, complaints, audits, patient feedback and external reviews is translated into measurable and sustainable improvements in practice. Support assurance against local and national maternity standards, regulatory requirements and organisational quality priorities, identifying and escalating areas of concern. Lead and support the preparation and presentation of high-quality governance, safety and assurance reports to relevant committees and forums. Strengthen systems for audit, action planning, monitoring and evidence of impact, ensuring actions are completed effectively and improvements are sustained. Promote a culture of openness, learning, professional curiosity, psychological safety and continuous improvement. Champion a just and learning culture, supporting teams to learn from excellence as well as when care does not go as planned. Ensure the voices and experiences of women, birthing people and families inform maternity governance, learning and improvement. Work collaboratively across professional, organisational and geographical boundaries to strengthen maternity and neonatal safety and improve outcomes and experience. Provide visible senior professional leadership, supporting colleagues to understand their responsibilities for quality, safety, governance and escalation. The interview will involve a stakeholder presentation session followed by a panel interview. Interviews will be held on Monday 30th November 2026. Following shortlisting, the successful candidates will be provided this information. Please refer to the Job description for full details