The Band 8a Maternity Matron for Compliance, (Audit, ATAIN (Avoiding Term Admissions into Neonatal units), Transitional Care, and Saving Babies' Lives) plays a pivotal role in enhancing the quality of care provided to mothers, birthing people and their families. This role focuses on implementing and leading initiatives related to clinical audit, reducing avoidable term admissions, optimising transitional care, and supporting the Saving Babies’ Lives care bundle. The Lead Midwife will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to drive improvements, ensure compliance with best practices, and support the achievement of national and local maternity standards.
- 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 on both sites.
- Work closely with the Deputy Directors of Midwifery and Nursing, the Divisional triumvirate and the Trust Governance Team.
- Maintain strong working relationships with clinical colleagues.
- Ensure the triangulation of information and intelligence from across the Service, the division and the Trust, in order to provide leadership and direction in relation to Quality Governance, Effectiveness and Quality Improvements.
- Work in partnership with the senior obstetric and midwifery team to assist in driving forward the wider Maternity leadership, operational and strategic agendas.
Proud of our workforce
- Our 7,500 staff are recruited from local communities and around the world
- Our staff rate us second among acute trusts in London as a place to work
- Despite challenges in the NHS, our low staff vacancy rate remains significantly better than the national average
- We are passionate about the health and wellbeing of our staff with a huge support offer, including our nationally-recognised free back-up care scheme and Timewise accreditation as a flexible employer
- We love to develop our people, offering a range of development programmes and apprenticeships, with our healthcare support worker apprentices winning Apprentice of the Year for two years running
- We offer a fantastic range of salary sacrifice schemes, from season ticket loans, bicycles and vehicles, to gym memberships, home electronics and holidays
Some roles may require weekend shifts at multiple sites.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claire Davidson Job title: Deputy Director of Midwifery and Nursing Email address: claire.davidson2@nhs.net
