Lead Midwife for Patient Safety in Frimley

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Frimley Park Hospital as the Lead Midwife for Patient Safety. As part of this full-time permanent opportunity, you will work within the Clinical Governance Team.

This role is a clinical split:

• 20% of time will be spent in the clinical area, with responsibility for shift management of the labour ward or the maternity ward area.
• 80% of time will be spent undertaking risk management duties.

The purpose of this role is to provide strategic and operational leadership for patient safety within maternity services. The post holder will lead the implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), ensuring the service moves beyond traditional risk management toward a proactive, systems-based learning culture. The post holder will ensure the service meets all national safety requirements (CQC, MIS and MNSI), while maintaining clinical credibility through active shift coordination.

Main duties of the job

• Safety leadership: Chair of the Maternity Patient Safety Group and lead investigator for complex clinical incidents.
• Compliance: Primary lead for evidencing Safety Actions 1 and 10 of the Maternity Incentive Scheme (MIS).
• Culture: Champion of a 'Just Culture', ensuring psychological safety for staff and transparency for service users.
• Equity: Monitoring safety outcomes to reduce health inequalities in line with MBRRACE-UK findings.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too. We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.

Person specification

• Qualifications: Registered Midwife currently on NMC register, Mentorship/PSPA/SLIP or equivalent, Evidence of CPD, Diploma in Clinical Risk management or other relevant study, Leadership/management training.
• Experience: Experience of managing a ward area/or labour ward, Experience of clinical audit/quality issues within the health care setting, Experience in guideline development and implementation, Experience of implementing and influencing clinical governance processes, Experience of undertaking midwifery research, Able to demonstrate successful change management and innovation.
• Skills & Knowledge: Interpersonal skills.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.

Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.

We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.

We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helping us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.

Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, saving time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.

Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.