Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (review after 12 months)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 284-24-6768692-DWCM
- Employer
- Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 90 Vincent Drive
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Quality Lead Midwife
Band 8b
Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.
Job overview
The Quality Lead Midwife within the Birmingham and Solihull Local Maternity and Neonatal services will provide clinical, operational leadership to ensure safe and robust processes within the maternity system.
Work collaboratively with providers to address issues of quality and safety within the Trusts and ensure safety is priority
Ensure compliance with three-year single delivery plan, progression with Ockenden recommendations (2020-2022) as well as any further reports relating to Maternity and Neonatal services.
Work alongside local maternity and neonatal system to ensure quality and safety is a golden thread that runs throughout all projects, with particular focus on equity and equality.
Main duties of the job
- Clinical oversight and scrutiny of provider contracts ensuring mitigation plans are in place where needed
- Use soft and hard intelligence practice to identify any quality issues
- Escalating areas of concerns in a timely manner to the LMNS and ICB
- Oversight and scrutiny of provider quality reports,
- Oversight and scrutiny of Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle version 3
- Oversight and scrutiny of CNST submissions
- Being a champion for quality in BSol care system
- Ensuring advocacy for service users and staff
- Attend senior meetings
- Working with Independent Chair to produce reports for System Quality Group
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife/Midwife 1st level with demonstrated post registration professional development and appropriate experience as a registered midwife
- Education to degree level or equivalent with master’s degree or equivalent higher-level demonstration of competency
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Current NMC/GMC register
- Evidence of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Demonstrated experience of coordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Experience of managing risks and reporting
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience in development of systems and processes in support of quality improvement
- Experience in monitoring and assuring quality of care in healthcare settings
- Extensive experience of working in the NHS including working in acute care settings
- Experience in commissioning for quality/service improvement and performance management with an impact on outcomes.
- Experience of working across multiple organisational and agency boundaries to achieve demonstrable outcomes and improvements in the quality of care/patient experience.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sylvia Owusu-Nepaul
- Job title
- Programme Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07436913059
- Additional information
Please contact Sylvia Owusu-Nepaul, Programme Director for an informal chat. Mon-Fri 9-5
List jobs with Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Nursing and Midwifery