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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 improving the quality and safety of patient care, 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 the maternity quality assurance agenda in line with the Trust Policies & Procedures and best practice guidance including CNST submissions, saving babies lives and ATTAIN.

Working with the Head of Maternity Governance and senior management/directorate teams, you will lead maternity services in meeting its statutory requirements and clinical governance objectives by monitoring and reporting on the progress of national drivers such as Care Quality Commission standards and regulations, regulatory initiatives such as Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle, NHS Resolution Maternity Incentive Scheme, Maternity 3 year single delivery plan, Maternity Core Competency Framework, Clinical audit agenda, MBRRACE and the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool, MatNeoSip, and the national maternity reports relating to Ockendon, Kirkup, Nottingham and other maternity service reviews. The post holder will ensure triangulation of information and intelligence from National and Local drivers.  

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

Main duties of the job

This role will be responsible for the leadership and line management of the Maternity Quality Assurance Team in the development of key audit programme and maternity guidelines. 

•    Support the Head of Maternity Governance on monitoring standards of a range of clinical governance, clinical effectiveness and audit activities. 
•    Responsible for leading the maternity quality assurance agenda in line with the Trust Policies & Procedures and best practice guidance including CNST submissions, saving babies lives and ATTAIN.
•    Work closely with the Head of Maternity Governance, the senior management and directorate teams within Maternity to ensure meaningful and proactive triangulation of data
•    Leadership and management of the Quality Assurance Team, including Maternity PDN team, student placement facilitators, the maternity audit programme and maternity guidelines.
•    Lead on the development of policies and procedures and associated documentation related to maternity quality assurance to ensure they comply with Care Quality Commission standards, NHSR risk management standards and any other external monitoring bodies.
•    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.

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.

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, that as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post you are agreeing to Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system and Human Resources personnel.