Quality and Safety Facilitator Midwife

Job summary

The Quality and Safety Facilitator Midwife is a role that is integral to promoting and supporting a positive culture of learning. It will provide essential support to the Maternity and Neonatal team through ensuring the co-ordination of clinical risk across the service on a daily basis. The individual will work with all grades of clinical staff and managers across the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to identify risks, report risks appropriately, be involved in the incident reporting and management system, ensuring that necessary actions follow, and learning takes place. The individual will contribute to the healthcare governance agenda together with the Quality and Safety Team.

Main duties of the job

To support the provision of healthcare to women and new-borns treated by Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust by supporting the delivery of mechanisms in place, in respect of risk management and patient safety incidents.

To receive, review, grade and investigate all reported clinical incidents and near misses together with the divisional and central risk management team.

To ensure that any immediate actions from incidents are escalated as appropriate.

To ensure effective communication (written and verbal) with all staff within maternity services providing feedback to staff through a variety of methods and ensuring all staff involved in the incidents are signposted to appropriate support services.

To maintain an incident reportingsystem which fulfils internal, and external reporting requirements. Ensuring that incidents are investigated at an appropriate level and resulting improvements can be evidenced

To collate and maintain a database of incident data and use incident trend analysis to identify trends from Datix incidents. Analyse and triangulate information; identify and implement mitigation and solutions to reduce risk.

To promote a 'Just Culture' approach within patient safety incidents.

To lead by personal example, role-modelling when working with others and sharing expertise in clinical practice.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk