Job summary
Maternity Clinical Effectiveness and Quality Improvement Midwife, Band 7 (24 hours a week)
We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated midwife to work closely with the Maternity Clinical Effectiveness team to provide expert knowledge, assistance and support to perinatal staff to enable high quality effective clinical audit and QI projects to be undertaken. The post holder will support all aspects of QI within perinatal services.
Main duties of the job
To support perinatal governance processes through their assurance and quality improvement (QI) activities. The post holder will use their administrative and quality improvement skills to enable and empower clinical and operational teams to lead their own quality improvement projects and programmes within their service. The post holder will track key performance indicators, providing assurance at Divisional and Trust level of compliance, or escalation of issues that arise as necessary.
The post holder will facilitate priority QI projects related to Trust objectives (e.g CQuIMs and National Audits present on the Quality Account).
The post holder will support the clinical teams with the speciality audit programme to ensure improvements are embedded and learning shared with the clinical teams.
See attached Job Description for full details.
About us
We take pride in placing people at the centre of everything we do, working together as a united team. Driven by a shared ambition to continually grow, develop, and learn, we recognise and value every contribution. By combining our experience and skills, we not only support our vibrant, diverse communities, but also support one another.With a team of over 9,000 employees, we are proud to be the largest employer in Gloucestershire and rank among the top 10 largest Trusts in the South West region. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from an excellent package that includes exclusive benefits, flexible working opportunities and the chance to gain valuable experience in one or both of our innovative hospitals.
As well as generous annual leave allowance, you will have access to the excellent NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, discounts at local shops and restaurants, access to two on-site nurseries, discounted public transport, reward and recognition and a range of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To promote and encourage a culture that is committed to continuously improving and providing high quality patient services.
- To provide support to perinatal services on all aspects of quality improvement
- To track key performance indicators to provide assurance within perinatal services and at Divisional and Trust level of compliance (or early view of arising issues where applicable).
- Facilitation of perinatal services QI projects and collaboratives via GSQIA and those related to service priorities/objectives and corporate requirements
- To support corporate Trust requirements e.g. National Audits, NICE, CQUIM.
See attached Job Description for full details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To promote and encourage a culture that is committed to continuously improving and providing high quality patient services.
- To provide support to perinatal services on all aspects of quality improvement
- To track key performance indicators to provide assurance within perinatal services and at Divisional and Trust level of compliance (or early view of arising issues where applicable).
- Facilitation of perinatal services QI projects and collaboratives via GSQIA and those related to service priorities/objectives and corporate requirements
- To support corporate Trust requirements e.g. National Audits, NICE, CQUIM.
See attached Job Description for full details.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- United Kingdom recognised Degree in Midwifery Practice
- Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation
- Current experience and evidence of working as a Band 6 midwife or above
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Able to prioritise own workload and that of others as appropriate
- Personally resilient and able to manage complexity and work in an ambiguous or changing environment.
- Excellent presentational, communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to deal with challenging people and situations whilst remaining calm and polite
- Ability to adopt an appropriate style and method of communication and deal effectively with people
- Demonstrates ability to maintain and contribute to the development of standards of practice, conduct or decision making in conjunction with team, Lead Midwives, Consultant Obstetricians
- Communicate and negotiate at all levels of the organisation whilst working tactfully and effectively to ensure the achievement of results
- Knowledge of human factors and patient experience
- Advanced level competence in standard range office IT programmes specifically Microsoft Office, Word, Outlook, Excel and video conferencing software.
- Ability to work accurately and to work to tight timescales
- Demonstrates ability to use clinical reasoning skills and techniques to assess, diagnose, plan and offer a range of treatment options; deliver, evaluate and amend the treatment plan.
- Acts as a role model and are able to lead by example to ensure the Trust's values and behaviours are reinforced throughout their area of practice.
- Able to supervise non-registered and less experienced staff to ensure effective service and care delivery.
- Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk and promote patient safety
- Demonstrates ability to keep up to date with professional issues that influence midwifery practice relating to area of clinical practice, management, education and research.
- Demonstrates ability to question and challenge midwifery practice in a constructive way so that standards of care are continually evaluated and improved.
Desirable
- Able to contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/protocols/guidelines relevant to area of practice.
- Tenacity to pursue goals energetically and succeed despite resistance
- Strong, professional leadership qualities, assertive and self-confident individual
- Ability to lead, manage and motivate all staff within sphere of responsibility
Clinical / Experience
Essential
- Experience in Change projects or Quality Improvement
- Significant experience in teaching/delivering training to small and large groups, face to face and in a virtual setting, or the confidence and skill set to do so.
- Ability to coach and facilitate individuals and groups through the full cycle of a QI project
- Ability to analyse and interpret data and create meaningful visual displays of data and reports.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Enthusiastic and self-aware
- Creative and Flexible
- Resilient under pressure
- Team focused
- Reliable, Adaptable and Dependable
- Positive approach to all people
- Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- United Kingdom recognised Degree in Midwifery Practice
- Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation
- Current experience and evidence of working as a Band 6 midwife or above
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Able to prioritise own workload and that of others as appropriate
- Personally resilient and able to manage complexity and work in an ambiguous or changing environment.
- Excellent presentational, communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to deal with challenging people and situations whilst remaining calm and polite
- Ability to adopt an appropriate style and method of communication and deal effectively with people
- Demonstrates ability to maintain and contribute to the development of standards of practice, conduct or decision making in conjunction with team, Lead Midwives, Consultant Obstetricians
- Communicate and negotiate at all levels of the organisation whilst working tactfully and effectively to ensure the achievement of results
- Knowledge of human factors and patient experience
- Advanced level competence in standard range office IT programmes specifically Microsoft Office, Word, Outlook, Excel and video conferencing software.
- Ability to work accurately and to work to tight timescales
- Demonstrates ability to use clinical reasoning skills and techniques to assess, diagnose, plan and offer a range of treatment options; deliver, evaluate and amend the treatment plan.
- Acts as a role model and are able to lead by example to ensure the Trust's values and behaviours are reinforced throughout their area of practice.
- Able to supervise non-registered and less experienced staff to ensure effective service and care delivery.
- Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk and promote patient safety
- Demonstrates ability to keep up to date with professional issues that influence midwifery practice relating to area of clinical practice, management, education and research.
- Demonstrates ability to question and challenge midwifery practice in a constructive way so that standards of care are continually evaluated and improved.
Desirable
- Able to contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/protocols/guidelines relevant to area of practice.
- Tenacity to pursue goals energetically and succeed despite resistance
- Strong, professional leadership qualities, assertive and self-confident individual
- Ability to lead, manage and motivate all staff within sphere of responsibility
Clinical / Experience
Essential
- Experience in Change projects or Quality Improvement
- Significant experience in teaching/delivering training to small and large groups, face to face and in a virtual setting, or the confidence and skill set to do so.
- Ability to coach and facilitate individuals and groups through the full cycle of a QI project
- Ability to analyse and interpret data and create meaningful visual displays of data and reports.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Enthusiastic and self-aware
- Creative and Flexible
- Resilient under pressure
- Team focused
- Reliable, Adaptable and Dependable
- Positive approach to all people
- Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
