We are looking to recruit an experienced midwife to join our Trust as the Lead for Clinical Effectiveness at Ipswich Hospital.
You will maintain oversight of the development of guideline and will work alongside the Clinical Governance Lead, Consultant Midwife, Practice Development Midwife, obstetric colleagues and other lead midwifery post holders.
You will take a leading role in the oversight of auditing practice, analysis of results and preparing reports.
This is permanent, full time post for 37.5 hours per week.
If you have a passion for improving the outcomes for women and have experience in this field, we want to hear from you.
• Involved with maternity risk management by investigating incidents reported through the Datix incident system, using lessons learned to improve practice and processes.
• Support and direct staff across the Trust in the identification and collation of evidence to support assessment of the standards within the maternity services, including Nice Guidance and CQC standards.
• Provide clinical leadership to staff working in the Women’s Clinical Delivery Group.
• Actively seek out and introduce new ideas relating to practice across the multidisciplinary team ensuring guidelines reflect best practice and are evidence based.
• In conjunction with other members of the multidisciplinary team, develop, review, disseminate and communicate new and revised standards, policies and guidelines.
• Assist with gap analysis of new national guidance including NICE and implementation of new guidance which is compliant with standards.
• Facilitate updating and information sharing sessions with maternity staff and produce a regular Clinical Update newsletter for staff.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Tuesday 3 Dec 2024