This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.
As the obstetric patient safety midwife, the post holder will work with the obstetric patient safety lead to maintain and enhance the knowledge, skills and experience needed to provide quality care for women, babies and families.
The post holder will assist, co-ordinate, promote and evaluate Patient Safety processes within the directorate, including assisting with case reviews and devising appropriate action plans. Assist with the notification of MBRRACE cases and the completion of the Perinatal Mortality Review tool.
Main duties of the job
The patient safety midwife assist in the day-to-day management of the datix system, emails and answering queries and participate in triage of datix in preparation for learning response panel working closely with the MDT team.
Attend the Obstetric Patient safety Learning meetings and Perinatal Mortality Review meetings and assist with writing up the chairs log and to liaise with the Legal and Patient Safety department as required.
This vacancy will close once sufficient applications have been received.
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:
1. Explore leadership within the NHS
2. Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
3. Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
4. Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* NMC registered Midwife
Experience
Essential
* Knowledge of patient safety framework and governance.
* Post qualification midwifery experience and can provide high quality care in variety of settings.
Desirable
* Datix experience
* Patient safety experience
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
* Excellent communication skills and work efficiently with the MDT.
Employer details
Employer name
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
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