Are you passionate about clinical governance? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a registered Midwife/Nurse to join the Governance team at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS. The post is within the women's and neonatal directorate, focusing on women's, maternity and neonates.
The post holders will work collaboratively within the governance team to support the implementation, monitoring, review, embed strategies and frameworks which underpin the principles of clinical governance within the Women's and Neonatal Services.
The successful candidates will work with the team to maintain and develop robust systems which evaluate and minimise the risk to the organisation, staff, patients and visitors. Ensuring learning is at the forefront from incidents, external reviews, complaints and inquests which support improvements in safety and quality care.
The post holder will work collaboratively within the Quality and Safety team and the wider multidisciplinary team to support the patient safety and quality improvement agenda. They will contribute to creating an organisational patient safety culture that focuses on high quality care standards and prevention of avoidable harm. This will be achieved by using evidence-based practice, lessons learned and data to identify incident themes and areas for improvement.
The post holder will be responsible for supporting effective governance and risk systems across maternity neonatal and gynaecology services. They will work closely and collaboratively with the quality and safety team leaders and the women’s services management team to ensure effective communication systems are in place and to ensure excellent standards of care and compliance with national and local standards.
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
· Support the quality and safety leads and women’s services management team and to ensure all governance arrangements and reporting structures are in place and effective.
· Utilise leadership, communication, influencing and negotiating skills in the provision of advice, support and guidance to the multidisciplinary team to ensure that learning from incidents makes a positive difference to patient safety.
· Ensure the compliance of all relevant Trust wide policies and guidelines within maternity and gynaecology and that all safety alerts are disseminated in a timely manner and any actions are reported.
· Participate in clinical audit and make recommendations for practice.
· Regularly attend clinical governance meetings and provide specialist patient safety and quality improvement advice.
· Review and develop information packages for service users.
· Escalate any factors which are impeding the delivery of a high-quality service to the quality and safety team leaders and senior management team as appropriate.
· Support benchmarking of service delivery against the national pathways, identify gaps and develop strategies for quality improvement.
· Use a variety of data such as incidents and outputs from Morbidity and Mortality meetings, to identify any themes and trends that require further investigation and action.
· Contribute to written monthly, quarterly and annual reports on risk / incidents complaints issues identifying trends, making recommendations for action and progress on implementation of actions for dissemination.
· Maintain databases of adverse outcomes and service reviews as appropriate.
· Identify, instigate and lead on / participate in specific quality improvement projects related to patient safety.
· Ensure compliance with Duty of Candour in respect of patient safety incidents, providing support for clinical staff and ensuring that the duties of the Trust are met.
· Contribute to the multidisciplinary morbidity and mortality reviews and the dissemination of learning and feedback following review.
· Liaise with Professional Midwifery Advocates (PMA) if appropriate to make sure that all staff involved in clinical incidents and investigations are supported.
· Review and develop guidelines and align to local and national standards.
· Evaluate service user feedback and disseminate trends and themes through shared learning platforms.
· Network with other quality and safety midwives/nurses across the region and nationally as appropriate to share best practice and learning.
· Maintain the highest level of confidentiality; the post holder must exercise considerable initiative in dealing with incidents which are not only complex but distressing.
· Maintain professional development to enable the development, delivery and evaluation of outstanding evidence based care.
· Work within the NMC Code.
· Undertake mandatory and priority training within the required time scales
· Participate in own and other’s appraisals
· Fulfil the requirements as directed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council to maintain and revalidate registration
· Work closely with Research and Innovation to promote research, disseminate outcomes and findings to support evidence-based practice
· Act in such a way that safeguards the health and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults at all times. Is familiar with and adheres to, the safeguarding policies.
· Raise concerns with regards to risk, danger, malpractice or wrong doing by following the Whistleblowing policy and supporting processes.
· Undertake duties on other wards or departments as and when required by service demands or patient need.
This advert closes on Thursday 14 Nov 2024
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