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Main area: Maternity
Grade: Band 8b
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (review after 12 months)
Hours:
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (agile working)
Job ref: 284-24-6768692-DWCM
Site: 90 Vincent Drive, Town: Birmingham
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/01/2025 23:59
Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.
Job overview
The Quality Lead Midwife within the Birmingham and Solihull Local Maternity and Neonatal services will provide clinical, operational leadership to ensure safe and robust processes within the maternity system.
Work collaboratively with providers to address issues of quality and safety within the Trusts and ensure safety is a priority.
Ensure compliance with three-year single delivery plan, progression with Ockenden recommendations (2020-2022) as well as any further reports relating to Maternity and Neonatal services.
Work alongside local maternity and neonatal system to ensure quality and safety is a golden thread that runs throughout all projects, with particular focus on equity and equality.
Main duties of the job
* Clinical oversight and scrutiny of provider contracts ensuring mitigation plans are in place where needed.
* Use soft and hard intelligence practice to identify any quality issues.
* Escalating areas of concerns in a timely manner to the LMNS and ICB.
* Oversight and scrutiny of provider quality reports.
* Oversight and scrutiny of Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle version 3.
* Oversight and scrutiny of CNST submissions.
* Being a champion for quality in BSol care system.
* Ensuring advocacy for service users and staff.
* Attend senior meetings.
* Working with Independent Chair to produce reports for System Quality Group.
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children, and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neonatal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Midwife/Midwife 1st level with demonstrated post registration professional development and appropriate experience as a registered midwife.
* Education to degree level or equivalent with master’s degree or equivalent higher-level demonstration of competency.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
* Current NMC/GMC register.
* Evidence of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
* Demonstrated experience of coordinating projects in complex and challenging environments.
* Experience of managing risks and reporting.
Experience
Our current Mental Health Services division may be transferring the provision of its services to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust (BSMHFT). Whilst at present you are applying for a position within Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation should you be successful in gaining a position within Mental Health Services, your employment may in the future be transferred over to BSMHFT. Should any new information become available, you will be kept informed of this throughout your recruitment process.
As a Trust employee you are required to comply with all legislation and guidance relating to safeguarding children and adults with care and support needs, and promoting their health and welfare. You are required to inform the Head of Safeguarding of any safeguarding concerns about your own children or children you live with. This information will be treated in a confidential manner.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Sylvia Owusu-Nepaul
Job title: Programme Director
Email address: sylvia.owusu-nepaul@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07436913059
Additional information:
Please contact Sylvia Owusu-Nepaul, Programme Director for an informal chat. Mon-Fri 9-5
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