The post holder will assist the Director of Midwifery and Head of Midwifery in the development of the professional midwifery agenda to achieve consistency of professional practice and high standards of care and innovation with a strong patient safety focus. Leading the directorate in Clinical Governance and risk management, the post holder will ensure quality assurance, achieving safety and clinical governance objectives within the Maternity Directorate to meet the wider national ambition and maternity safety agenda.
Based at Birmingham Women’s Hospital site, with a need for visibility amongst clinical and operational teams, the post may also require travel to sites across the region when required (i.e. Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Local Maternity and Neonatal System partners).
The post holder will be responsible for the leadership and operational management of the maternity Risk and Governance Team, working collaboratively with the Obstetric Lead to drive the maternity safety agenda. They will be responsible for oversight of the maternity specific patient experience team; incidents and risk management team; guidelines and audit with direct line management responsibility for the Digital midwife, as outlined in the organisational structure chart.
Working collaboratively with members of the multi-professional team is key to this role to ensure safety actions are embedded to elicit improvements, and positive practice is recognized, celebrated and emanated.
The post holder will participate in the operational manager on-call rota for BWC (site based).
Further information of specific responsibilities and duties is below.
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Louisa Davidson Job title: Head of Midwifery/Associate Director of Nursing Email address: louisa.davidson@nhs.net Telephone number: 07717300644
