Clinical Quality Assurance Lead - Midwifery

Job summary

• Suffolk County Council, Ipswich, IP1 2BX
• £43,455 per annum (pro rata for part time)
• 37 hours per week
• Permanent

• Are you compassionate and motivated?
• Are you interested in developing highly specialist knowledge and skills for supporting children, young people, and families within Suffolk?
• Would you like to work in an incredibly varied, challenging and rewarding role and want to make a difference to services offered to children young people and their families?

If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen for youto join our expandingChildren and Young Peoples (CYP)Community Health Quality and Governance Teamas aClinical Quality and Assurance Lead Nurse (Midwifery).

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This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. DBS checks or police vetting will be required for relevant posts.

Main duties of the job

You will:

• work with the Senior and Clinical Governance team to provide clinical leadership, management, and quality assurance to staff working across the 0-19 service
• provide professional support, clinical innovation, and support clinical governance to ensure safe and effective delivery of care to children, young people, and their families
• work as an interface between health visiting and maternity services in the coordination of health visiting and maternity services governance arrangements.
• ensure patient safety and quality meets clinical governance structures and that the highest standards of patient care and safety are implemented
• promote and maintain cohesive working relationships with LMNS and midwifery trusts locally
• ensure the locality teams are informed and responsive to trends and themes in complaints and incidents and participate in shared learning with maternity services, driving quality improvement processes for all staff
• maintain a robust system for audit activity across the locality, supporting clinical audits and undertaking bespoke audits as agreed
• ensure the locality is compliant with all Safeguarding policies and procedures and liaise with the organisational Safeguarding Lead to enable an effective learning environment
• lead and monitor the performance across the team and/ or service, representing the team at any inspection such as CQC.

About us

The team

You will be joining the management team at a time of significant growth and development providing a role within quality assurance.

The Corporate Governance Team is expanding, and you will be pivotal in its success. Based at Endeavour House Ipswich, the team support across CYP Health Community Services, ensuring the safety and quality of service to both staff and service users.

We will offer you

A comprehensive induction programme and regular supervision. We pride ourselves on being responsive to training needs and have an extensive training package to support your growth within the role and the organisation.

Travel and workplace requirements

We positively encourage the use of technology to communicate, but on occasions, there will be a requirement for you to travel to locations away from your contractual base, using reasonable and suitable means available to you. If you require a reasonable adjustment due to a disability to meet the travel requirements of this role, please speak with the contact detailed below.

This role supportshybrid working, a broadly even balancebetween working from home and working from an office base.Please speak with the contact detailed belowif you wish to discuss how that might impact your working arrangements.#LI-Hybrid