Governance Lead Midwife

Job summary

Are you an experienced midwife with a passion for patient safety, governance, and continuous improvement? An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Maternity & Neonatal Governance Team at Somerset Foundation Trust, where you'll play a vital role in shaping safe, high-quality care for women, birthing people, and their babies.

The Role

As part of a dedicated team of senior midwives, you'll lead on governance processes across the maternity and neonatal service. Your work will be pivotal in ensuring that incidents are thoroughly reviewed, lessons are learned, and meaningful improvements are embedded across the service.

This is a shared role as part of a team; leadership and support roles within the team for particular elements of maternity governance will be agreed with the Heads of Midwifery.

Main duties of the job

• Lead and participate in reviewing incidents, adhering to statutory reporting processes
• Liaise with families, ensuring their voices are heard and that Duty of Candour principles are upheld
• Support patient safety initiatives, ensuring learning from incidents, complaints, inquests, and external reviews leads to real change
• Drive clinical effectiveness, overseeing best practice standards, audits, and compliance with national guidelines
• Ensure risk management processes are robust, including risk assessments and maintaining the risk register
• Embed learning across all areas, ensuring staff receive timely feedback and improvement actions are implemented

You will play a key role in implementing the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), working to ensure safe, effective maternity care in line with national patient safety alerts and external recommendations.

Why Join Us?

This is more than a governance role--it's an opportunity to influence and improve maternity and neonatal care on a meaningful level. You'll be part of a supportive, collaborative team, working closely with the Heads of Midwifery to ensure all governance elements are met while also contributing to a culture of learning, reflection, and improvement.

If you're looking for a leadership role where your expertise can drive real change, we'd love to hear from you.

About us

At Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, we're committed to supporting our employees with a range of benefits designed to enhance your professional and personal life. We offer:

• Flexible working options to help you balance work and life
• NHS pension scheme for long-term financial security
• Generous annual leave allowance to recharge and relax
• A strong focus on career development to help you grow and achieve your potential

Additionally, you'll gain access to our Blue Light Card, unlocking exclusive discounts on shopping, dining, and leisure activities, as well as NHS-specific perks to support you both inside and outside of work.

We are proud to foster a diverse, skilled, and inclusive workforce, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.

Why Somerset? Somerset offers the perfect blend of idyllic countryside, outstanding areas of natural beauty, and breathtaking coastlines, with vibrant cities like Bristol, Bath, and Exeter just a short drive away - and only two hours to London.

The region is home to excellent educational facilities, and with affordable housing compared to other parts of the country, it's a great place to build both your career and your future.

Somerset truly has it all - the peaceful countryside and cosmopolitan city life, with something for everyone to enjoy.