Job summary
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has a drive, passion and commitment to patient safety and clinical effectiveness. We have an exciting opportunity for a Midwife with significant experience and passion for improvement in care to develop their leadership and management within the governance and risk agenda. You would be joining a supportive team, with a keen focus on the patient safety agenda, providing visible senior leadership and direction regarding the governance agenda. The post holder will work with the Head of Midwifery, the Senior Midwifery team and clinical leads and the wider organisation. Working collaboratively with the Corporate Quality, Patient Safety and Learning team to ensure seamless clinical governance pathways are in place and that the quality of care and clinical effectiveness is to the highest standard . The post holder will foster multidisciplinary working and promote a safety culture and awareness of risk management to ensure excellent standards of care and that there is compliance with local and national standards. Effective oversight of investigations, including duty of candour will be required alongside the provision of high quality data and information, and evidence of learning. The post holder will actively engage with and enable staff to be involved in incident reporting and promote an open and just culture.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will take the lead on the governance and risk agenda within maternity services, to ensure that the quality of care, patient experience, and clinical effectiveness is to the highest standard. They will ensure effective assurance and monitoring processes are in place. The post holder will provide oversight of patient safety incidents and promote an honest and just culture with learning that will encompass local and national theme.
About us
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide oversight and scrutiny of clinical incidents
Participate and lead on clinical incident reviews, collating themes trends and learning.
Review, disseminate and integrate recommendations from key national reports.
Exercise integrity, curiosity, analysis of complex information supporting the redress and legal process.
Reporting of serious incidents to regulatory body
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide oversight and scrutiny of clinical incidents
Participate and lead on clinical incident reviews, collating themes trends and learning.
Review, disseminate and integrate recommendations from key national reports.
Exercise integrity, curiosity, analysis of complex information supporting the redress and legal process.
Reporting of serious incidents to regulatory body
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current Midwifery professional registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Masters Degree or equivalent demonstrable knowledge and experience
- Evidence of appropriate post registration CPD
Desirable
- IQT Bronze/ Improvement Cymru - Improvement Basics
- Trained in Root Cause Analysis / Serious Incident Investigation process
Experience
Essential
- Experience of co-ordinating the quality and safety function within a healthcare environment
- Experience of leading clinical audit
- Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams ?
- Experience of analysing interpret governance information to inform and identify solutions
Desirable
- Experience of line management of staff
- Experience of implementing quality improvement methodologies.
- Experience in report writing and delivering presentations.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Understanding of NHS structure and processes including, regulation and evolving governmental approaches.
- Understanding of processes of standard setting, assessment and assurance within the NHS
- Understanding of the principles and practice of the legal framework relevant to risk management, investigation and mitigation in the context of governance in the NHS
Desirable
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current Midwifery professional registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Masters Degree or equivalent demonstrable knowledge and experience
- Evidence of appropriate post registration CPD
Desirable
- IQT Bronze/ Improvement Cymru - Improvement Basics
- Trained in Root Cause Analysis / Serious Incident Investigation process
Experience
Essential
- Experience of co-ordinating the quality and safety function within a healthcare environment
- Experience of leading clinical audit
- Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams ?
- Experience of analysing interpret governance information to inform and identify solutions
Desirable
- Experience of line management of staff
- Experience of implementing quality improvement methodologies.
- Experience in report writing and delivering presentations.
Skills and Attributes
Essential
- Understanding of NHS structure and processes including, regulation and evolving governmental approaches.
- Understanding of processes of standard setting, assessment and assurance within the NHS
- Understanding of the principles and practice of the legal framework relevant to risk management, investigation and mitigation in the context of governance in the NHS
Desirable
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
