Patient Safety Midwife

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife to join our established team as the Patient Safety Midwife (with lead for patient experience).

This is a key role ensuring that the voice of women, birthing people and their families are central to the delivery of any changes within the maternity services to truly ensure that we are meeting the needs of our local community.

You will work collaboratively with other patient safety and risk management leads within the Women and Children's Division and Trust wide to promote a culture of safety and learning from experience and promote best practice.

This is part time role-15 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

• To prepare reports and seek input from families and lead PMRT(perinatal mortality review tool) within the Trust
• To act as lead link between Maternity and Neonatal Voice Partnerships, organising, attending and participating in meetings, embedding relationships with the MNVP as key stakeholders to service improvement;
• To act as a conduit with the Maternity Neonatal Independent Senior Advocate
• To work collaboratively with leadership team to identify learning needs and provide learning opportunities to facilitate change and performance improvement from patient and staff feedback;
• To inspire and lead others to design and deliver the best experience to patients;
• To understand and establish the most effective feedback mechanism for patient experience, generating meaningful actions to improve the care received by families;
• Understand the requirement and wishes of women, birthing people and their families regarding their expectations, the information they wish to receive and the services provided;

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife with Current NMC Registration
• Teaching & Assessing Qualification
• Evidence of recent study in a relevant subject at master's level/post graduate qualification

Desirable

• Management Qualification or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• Experience of a senior clinical/ managerial position
• Experience of leading a team
• Managing conflict
• Experience of research/audit and bench marking
• Management of clinical incidents & complaints
• Experience in the management of human and financial resources

Desirable

• Experience in identifying education & training needs of staff

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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