B6 Midwife - Quality, Safety and Learning Team with a focus on PMRT
Permanent - 0.5 WTE (18.75 hours)
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Women's Service at Leeds Teaching Hospitals as a Quality, Safety and Learning Midwife/Nurse.
This part-time role will work within the existing Quality Safety Learning Team who support the Women's Service on governance, quality, and patient safety with a specific focus on the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool process and coordination. We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic midwife/nurse who will have knowledge of risk and governance processes, ideally maternity specific, and be a caring and compassionate individual who is focused on providing safe patient care, following the Leeds Way Values.
Main Duties of the Job
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 with a specific focus on the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool process and coordination. 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 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.
Job Responsibilities
1. Support the quality and safety leads and women's services management team to ensure all governance arrangements and reporting structures are in place and effective.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Participate in clinical audit and make recommendations for practice.
5. Regularly attend clinical governance meetings and provide specialist patient safety and quality improvement advice.
6. Review and develop information packages for service users.
7. 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.
8. Support benchmarking of service delivery against the national pathways, identify gaps, and develop strategies for quality improvement.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Maintain databases of adverse outcomes and service reviews as appropriate.
12. Identify, instigate and lead on/participate in specific quality improvement projects related to patient safety.
13. 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.
14. Contribute to the multidisciplinary morbidity and mortality reviews and the dissemination of learning and feedback following review.
15. Liaise with Professional Midwifery Advocates (PMA) if appropriate to make sure that all staff involved in clinical incidents and investigations are supported.
16. Review and develop guidelines and align to local and national standards.
17. Evaluate service user feedback and disseminate trends and themes through shared learning platforms.
18. Network with other quality and safety midwives/nurses across the region and nationally as appropriate to share best practice and learning.
19. Maintain the highest level of confidentiality; the post holder must exercise considerable initiative in dealing with incidents which are not only complex but distressing.
20. Maintain professional development to enable the development, delivery, and evaluation of outstanding evidence-based care.
21. Work within the NMC Code.
22. Undertake mandatory and priority training within the required time scales.
23. Participate in own and others' appraisals.
24. Fulfil the requirements as directed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council to maintain and revalidate registration.
25. Actively promote and use the Leeds Improvement method to improve the quality and safety of the service.
26. Work closely with Research and Innovation to promote research, disseminate outcomes and findings to support evidence-based practice.
27. 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 LTHT safeguarding policies.
28. Raise concerns with regards to risk, danger, malpractice, or wrongdoing by following the LTHT Whistleblowing policy and supporting processes.
29. Undertake duties on other wards or departments as and when required by service demands or patient need.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Midwife or Nurse
* Degree in Nursing/Midwifery or evidence of working at degree level
* Evidence of continuing professional education and development.
* Demonstrable experience in all aspects of maternity or gynaecology nursing care including changing practice
* Masters Degree or working towards Masters level qualification.
* Risk management qualification
Skills & Behaviours
* Excellent communication skills and ability to be responsive to highly emotive conversations.
* Flexible, highly motivated, and supportive of others.
* Ability to develop excellent working relationships with all staff.
* Strong organisational and planning skills.
* Willing to develop new skills including completing appropriate training as required.
* Willingness to share knowledge and skills to contribute to the professional development of others
* Resilient and able to maintain personal effectiveness and work well under pressure.
* Ability to adapt written and verbal communication skills to the audience.
* Ability to undertake a wide range of work procedures without direct supervision.
* Ability to analyse data and produce required reports and information.
Experience
* Demonstrable experience in developing self and others and changing practice.
* Knowledge and understanding of the reporting requirements to external bodies.
* Experience in clinical audit.
* Knowledge and experience of national patient safety agenda and NHS England and CQC priorities.
* Ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the quality and safety agenda.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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