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Job overview

We have an excellent opportunity to join our Trust within our Governance Team in Maternity and Children Services.  We are looking an experienced midwife or nurse who is passionate about patient safety, and proactive about working with families, to bring improved outcomes for women and their families, you will be joining at an important and exciting time in our journey. 

This role plays a key role in the delivery of the Trust’s continuous quality improvement and patient safety programmes leading, coordinating and advising on all aspects of patient safety statutory requirements within the service.  Working with the Head of Maternity Governance and senior management/directorate teams, you will lead the implementation of the National Patient Strategy for maternity services, including the recently implemented Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSFIR).  This role will be responsible for the leadership and line management of the Maternity Patient Safety and Risk Team, in the development of key maternity patient safety systems and processes.

The person will be required to participate in the on-call provision.

Main duties of the job

•    Work closely with the Head of Maternity Governance, the senior management and directorate teams within Maternity to ensure that the service meets the statutory requirements and standards for Patient Safety Governance.
•    Responsible for leading the maternity patient safety agenda and ensure a unified approach to the review of patient safety incidents across the service, in line with the Trust Policies & Procedures and best practice guidance.
•    Be regularly visible / present in clinical areas, encouraging interaction with all groups of staff and gathering ‘soft’ data to enable triangulation of data and establish effective working relationships.
•    Work closely with the other quality governance teams within the Trust to ensure meaningful and proactive triangulation of data
•    Act as a focal point for incident reporting within Maternity and encourage all staff to make use of the In-phase reporting system and share resulting good practice and lessons learned.
•    Escalation of incidents within Maternity that meet the Trust Patient Safety Incident Response Plan to the weekly Risk Review meeting and to the Patient Safety Incident Review Group (PSIRG)

Working for our organisation

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.

We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Please contact the Recruiting Manager for an informal discussion should you have any queries relating to the role for which you are applying. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted via an email as soon as possible after the closing date. Should you receive an invitation to attend interview, please confirm or decline your attendance. Interview slots will then be allocated on a first come first serve basis.

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