Governance Midwife - Whiston, United Kingdom - Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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Part Time 15 hours per week


The post holder will be responsible for reviewing, monitoring, and evaluating incident reports in conjunction with the senior midwifery team to ensure that timely review, investigation, and escalation occurs.

Ensuring that any lessons learned are fed back to the staff involved and the service, facilitating organisational learning.

An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both Adults & Children is required for this post.

  • Promote effective practice for safe service delivery.
  • Be responsible for managing incident reporting ensuring the relevant reviews are undertaken and incidents closed with learning disseminated
  • Provide professional and managerial support in relation to clinical risk.
  • Where appropriate deputise for the Quality and Safety Matron
  • The post holder will assist the Quality and Safety and Maternity team in achieving and maintaining high CQC standards and achieving MBRRACE recommendations, and the NPSA and or any other relevant agencies.
  • Identify incidents that require reporting to the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) and support the reporting and investigation process for these cases.
  • Participate and support the Perinatal Mortality Review Process, notifying cases to MBRRACE and contributing to the surveillance of cases. Drafting and reviewing reports within the PMRT tool in partnership with the Quality and Safety Matron and the Obstetric Lead for PMRT.
  • Coordinate the Avoiding Term Admissions Into Neonatal (ATAIN) reviews in partnership with the NNU Team and ensure that maternity learning is disseminated in a timely manner
  • Take a lead in the coordination of directorate risk activities including the coordination of Serious Incidents and other risk reporting including near miss reporting, Duty of Candour, and ensuring that learning is disseminated and effective to reduce reoccurrence of event.
The Secretary of State has approved the partnership between St Helens & Knowsley and Southport & Ormskirk Hospitals.


From 1stJuly we have come together as a single organisation under the name Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.


The Trust delivers acute hospital care, intermediate care, community, and primary care services to a population of over 600,000 people with a combined workforce of around 9000 dedicated and skilled staff from 17 locations including Whiston, Southport & Formby, St Helens, Ormskirk and Newton hospitals.


The Trust provides regional services for burns, plastic surgery and spinal injuries to more than 4 million people across Mersey and West Lancashire, Cheshire, the Isle of Man and North Wales.


Our Vision is to deliver 5 Star Patient Care:

  • CARE that is evidence based, high quality and compassionate
  • SAFETY that is of the highest standards
  • COMMUNICATION that is open, inclusive and respectful
  • SYSTEMS that are efficient, patient centred and reliable
  • PATHWAYS that are best practice and embedded, but also respect the individual needs of patients

Our achievements include:


  • Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 201
  • Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
  • Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Please see our Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our staff benefits. Accessible version available upon request.


KEY DUTIES

  • Promote effective practice for safe service delivery.
  • Be responsible for managing incident reporting ensuring the relevant reviews are undertaken and incidents closed with learning disseminated
  • Provide professional and managerial support in relation to clinical risk.
  • Where appropriate deputise for the Quality and Safety Matron
  • The post holder will assist the Quality and Safety and Maternity team in achieving and maintaining high CQC standards and achieving MBRRACE recommendations, and the NPSA and or any other relevant agencies.
  • Identify incidents that require reporting to the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) and support the reporting and investigation process for these cases.
  • Participate and support the Perinatal Mortality Review Process, notifying cases to MBRRACE and contributing to the surveillance of cases. Drafting and reviewing reports within the PMRT tool in partnership with the Quality and Safety Matron and the Obstetric Lead for PMRT.
  • Coordinate the Avoiding Term Admissions Into Neonatal (ATAIN) reviews in partnership with the NNU Team and ensure that maternity learning is disseminated in a timely manner
  • Take a lead in the coordination of directorate risk activities including the coordination of Serious Incidents and other risk reporting including near miss reporting, Duty of Candour, and ensuring that learning is disseminated and effective to reduce reoccurrence of event.
  • Ensure that all investigations are completed in a timely fashion and recommended actions are completed accordingly.
  • Coordinate and assist in

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