Patient Safety - Chertsey, United Kingdom - Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Chertsey, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Patient Safety and Clinical Governance Midwife (Band 7, 37.5 hours, Permanent)

Ashford & St Peters NHS Foundation Trust are seeking an experienced midwife, with demonstrable knowledge of the clinical governance and patient safety agenda, to join their established and experienced Quality & Safety Team within the Women's Health & Paediatrics Division.

You will take the lead on aspects of the maternity safety improvement plan, support the Perinatal Quality and Safety Lead to ensure robust investigations are undertaken following clinical incidents and take a lead role in ensuring the dissemination and embedding of the learning from such cases.

You will be actively involved in the clinical audit programme and guideline work streams as well as taking the lead on the PMRT reporting process across the division.

You will need to be adaptable, able to manage your own workload, responsive to events as they occur and enjoy working as part of a busy team with a passion for quality improvement and a strong desire to improve safety and patient experience.

You will be joining ASPH Maternity Department at a time of exciting change as we embark upon a journey to implement the new national Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) designed to support teams to learn from incidents and support the families and staff involved.

Visits for prospective employees are welcomed.

As an experienced clinical practitioner, they will be expected to

create an environment of continuous quality improvement and put systems in place to minimise risk in response to clinical incidents.

support the Perinatal Quality and Safety Lead in ensuring that clinical risks are robustly and effectively managed in the interest of safety.

assist in the resolution of patient complaints through investigation, clinical advice and written response in accordance with the Trust's Complaints and Concerns Policy.

assist with the development and compliance of local and national clinical audit plans, and NICE guidance compliance, ensuring a robust programme of clinical audit and clinical guideline review

The post holder will:

Deputise for the Perinatal Quality and Safety Lead in their absence.
In the absence of the Perinatal Quality and Safety Lead, attend and contribute to relevant Divisional and Board level meetings as required
Work closely with the Head of Midwifery and Clinical Governance Lead Consultant Obs & Gynae in the delivery of the maternity agenda for Clinical Governance.
Support the wider division on risk and governance matters within the realms of own knowledge base as required.

Ashford and St.

Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH.

We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

This is an exciting time to join our Trust, as we work on the expansion of our theatres at Ashford Hospital and move towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre.

We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures; with care delivered by dedicated, specialist teams in a modern and well-equipped environment.

We hope to use this centre to create an environment of learning and to facilitate training of the next generation of our skilled NHS workforce.

Our plans are ambitious - why not, come and be a part of our journey.

Knowledge, training and experience

Demonstrate a professional approach to work.
Have specific knowledge/expertise within the practice area underpinned by theory and practical experience.
Be able to provide expert advice in midwifery matters for clinical risk management issues and have the ability to reach an advanced training level for this.
Provide regular updating for all staff and ensure new staff are trained in local risk management procedures within one month of commencing employment.
Analysis, planning and organising
Support the Perinatal Quality & Safety Lead to formulate and initiate the action plan of response following risk incidents and in partnership with the senior clinical team and medical leads. Ensures that all personnel adopt and adhere to recommendations. This may be a range of professionals e.g. Paediatricians, Nurses, Midwives and Obstetricians.
Work in liaison with Trust's legal team providing alerts / information relating to cases likely to lead to li