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Job summary

Main area
Women and Children
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
up to 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
328-WAC-6846290
Employer
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The James Cook University Hospital
Town
Middlesbrough
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 per annum (pro rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/12/2024 23:59

Employer heading

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Obstetric Patient Safety Midwife

Band 6

Job overview

This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.

As the obstetric patient safety midwife, the post holder will work with the obstetric patient safety lead to maintain and enhance the knowledge, skills and experience needed to provide quality care for women, babies and families.

The post holder will assist, co-ordinate, promote and evaluate Patient Safety processes within the directorate, including assisting with case reviews and devising appropriate action plans. Assist with the notification of MBRRACE cases and the completion of the Perinatal Mortality Review tool.

 

Main duties of the job

The patient safety midwife assist in the day-to-day management of the datix system, emails and answering queries and participate in triage of datix in preparation for learning response panel working closely with the MDT team.

Attend the Obstetric Patient safety Learning meetings and Perinatal Mortality Review meetings and assist with writing up the chairs log and to liaise with the Legal and Patient Safety department as required.

This vacancy will close once sufficient applications have been received. 

Working for our organisation

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills.  You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:

 

·         Explore leadership within the NHS

·         Promote Trust Values and Behaviours

·         Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills

·         Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

 

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities,

we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NMC registered Midwife

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of patient safety framework and governance.
  • Post qualification midwifery experience and can provide high quality care in variety of settings.
Desirable criteria
  • Datix experience
  • Patient safety experience

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication skills and work efficiently with the MDT.

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Stephanie Lishman
Job title
Obstetric Patient Safety Lead midwife
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01642 850850
Additional information

ext 54520

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
The Recruitment Team
The Murray Building
The James Cook University Hospital
TS4 3BW
Telephone
01642 850850, ext. 57396
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