Deputy Lead Midwife - Quality Assurance, Governance And Compliance

Are you an experienced and motivated midwifery leader with a passion for quality, safety and continuous improvement? We are seeking an exceptional Deputy Lead Midwife to play a pivotal role in shaping and strengthening maternity governance across our services. Working closely with senior maternity leaders, you will help drive the quality and safety agenda, ensuring women, babies and families receive the highest standards of care. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategic improvement programmes, support regulatory compliance, embed learning from incidents and reviews, and champion a culture of excellence across our maternity services.

We are looking for an experienced registered midwife with strong leadership skills, excellent governance knowledge and the ability to inspire multidisciplinary teams to deliver meaningful change. You will be a credible and collaborative leader who is passionate about improving outcomes, enhancing patient experience and supporting staff to achieve their best. In return, you will join one of the UK's leading maternity services within an internationally renowned NHS Trust, offering opportunities for professional development, innovation, research and system-wide influence.

Main duties of the job:

• Support the Lead Midwife Quality Assurance, Governance & Compliance on monitoring standards of a range of clinical governance, clinical effectiveness, audit and patient safety activities, in liaison with other multidisciplinary professionals and functional heads within the Safety and Effectiveness team.
• Support the Lead Midwife for Quality Assurance, Governance & Compliance to provide an oversight of the strategic and operational delivery of all aspects of quality assurance pertinent to the business of clinical governance in maternity that is safety centric, as well as demonstrating good quality governance is understood and practised across all professional groups within maternity services.
• Hold responsibility for the development, coordination, and ongoing monitoring of a comprehensive maternity action plan, incorporating all actions and recommendations arising from internal reviews, external investigations, audits, inspections, and regulatory reports, ensuring timely implementation, oversight, and assurance of progress.
• The post holder is responsible for ensuring effective governance systems are in place across maternity and particularly guideline, clinical audit, risk management, training and Maternity Incentive Scheme (MIS).

Working for our organisation:

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities. We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Person specification:

Education / Qualifications

• Essential criteria: NMC registered midwife, Degree level education or equivalent experience, Trained in Root Cause Analysis, Ability to analyse aggregated management systems.
• Desirable criteria: Recognised qualification in the field of quality assurance, compliance and governance, Recognised Leadership/management qualification.

Experience

• Essential criteria: Leading and developing a team, Understanding of clinical effectiveness and audit procedures, Experience of risk management, audit process, and shared learning, Midwifery clinical experience/can demonstrate credible midwifery knowledge.
• Desirable criteria: Experience of implementing change in clinical practice.

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

• Essential criteria: Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively, and to prioritise work programs in the face of competing demands, Understanding of principles of safety, quality assurance and governance framework pertinent to maternity services, Ability to analyse national standards and develop an action plan, Knowledge of relevant Quality Improvement and assurance principles.
• Desirable criteria: Specialist knowledge in clinical governance and risk management, Evidence of clinical research, Presentation skills/local and national.

If you need sponsorship to work in the UK, please visit the Home Office website for information on sponsorship and visa status before you fill in your application form. Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying.

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Vacancy Closing Date: This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application. Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).