Midwife-Quality and Health Improvement

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Midwife-Quality and Health Improvement to lead in enhancing quality and safety in maternity services. The candidate will provide leadership on audit and quality improvement, develop clinical guidelines, and support midwifery audits. Must be a registered midwife with a degree in healthcare, and demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills. This role offers a chance to make a significant impact in maternal health care within the community.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with NMC registration.
• Experience in clinical audit application in maternity services.
• Evidence of professional development and quality improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead audit leadership and coordination of midwifery audits.
• Develop clinical guidelines and oversee implementation.
• Monitor quality improvement activities and report outcomes.

Skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Problem-solving skills

Team player

Education

1st level degree in related healthcare discipline

Registered Midwife

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Midwife-Quality and Health Improvement who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

To provide expert leadership in relation to quality and safety by supporting safe, evidence- based practice across the maternity service. To create pathways and strategies to support the implementation and delivery of enhanced and effective evidenced based practice at clinical, directorate and corporate level, to monitor the Obstetric and Gynaecology GAAP’s and Quality Standards (QS). They will lead in the development of midwifery and obstetric guidelines and to be responsible for providing audit leadership, be the point of contact for planning and coordination of midwifery and relevant multidisciplinary audits and action planning for quality improvement.

The post holder will communicate on audit, GAAP, QS, guideline and quality improvement matters.

The post holder will work in partnership with other members of the multidisciplinary team, supporting and advising less experienced staff and junior medical staff undertaking clinical audit.

The role includes responsibility for audit, evaluation, and continuous quality improvement to drive the Maternity Stop Smoking Service’s development and sustainability. The post holder will contribute to Trust, regional, and national reporting, and deliver Reducing Smoking in Pregnancy training to maternity staff. They will provide leadership and oversight of high-quality service delivery.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values : Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will provide audit leadership, guidance and expertise and be the point of contact for planning and coordination of midwifery and relevant multidisciplinary audit.

Support the monitoring and submission of GAAP's and QS's and any actions associated with audit and guideline development generated from these.

Lead the development of midwifery practice by developing clinical guidelines, overseeing the implementation of action plans from audit outcomes and quality improvement priorities.

Lead the midwifery audit programme, responding to national reports and recommendations, incidents, complaints and other local priorities identified.

Develop action plans in response to relevant government or national reports / recommendations. Regularly monitor the standards of midwifery led care framework and guidelines, ensuring improvements to practice or guidelines are made as necessary. Collect and maintain evidence to support Saving Babies' Lives Care Bundle Element 1, Reducing Smoking in Pregnancy, through regular reporting and quality improvement activity.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals :

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attached job description and person specification for full details and requirements for the role.

Person specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential criteria

• Registered Midwife meeting the requirements to maintain Midwifery registration with the NMC
• 1st level degree in related healthcare discipline or substantial experience equivalent
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Undertaken studies related to or have experience of Clinical Audit

Desirable criteria

• ost graduate qualification and / or equivalent level of knowledge gained through extensive experience.
• Post graduate certificate / diploma in Midwifery research / Audit training
• Post graduate certificate / diploma in quality improvement.

Previous Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of having undertaken and presented clinical audit in maternity service and implemented its application in the practice arena.
• Evidence of contribution to guideline development.
• Evidence of driving meaningful and sustainable change through quality improvement.
• Experience of working with healthcare and clinical IT systems.
• Computer literate with ability to use Microsoft Word / Excel / PowerPoint to produce high quality data.
• Understanding of health-related research.

Desirable criteria

• Service development experience, delivering clinical quality improvements and successful service change.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Proven leadership skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to teach and assess in the clinical area.
• Well-developed organizational skills.
• Ability to pull together information to identify learning outcomes and translate into different levels of clinic
• Well-developed numeracy skills.
• Able to lead on professional meetings and stakeholder events.
• Able to present data to diverse audiences using a variety of platforms.
• Problem solving and analytical skills relating to the identification and assessment of evidence required to support decision making.
• Ability to collate information and present in report formats.
• Self-motivated and able to communicate in a sensitive and non-judgmental way.
• Ability to motivate others.
• Team player.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Up to date and evidence-based knowledge of current clinical and professional i
• An understanding of the national and local drivers impacting the role
• In-depth understanding of the relevance of high quality data.

Desirable criteria

• Good understanding of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), NHSE and the relevance of patient safety and local priorities on driving quality improvement
• Complete NCSCT Level 2 Tobacco Dependence Advisor training to support clinical service delivery.

Other Requirements

Essential criteria

• Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
• Role model our Trust values every day
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to deal calmly with a range of personalities and situations.
• Committed to the provision of a high-quality safe service for women and their families
• Ability to work collaboratively and strategically.
• Ability to exercise own initiative and work to deadlines.
• Effective time management.
• Innovative, resourceful and flexible in approach to role.
• Able to cope with time critical and stressful situations.