Clinical Patient Safety Lead for Maternity

Clinical Patient Safety Lead for MaternityPlease note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within organisations under the Kent and Medway ICB.

The Safety and Governance lead will manage the governance agenda for Women''s Services ensuring systems and processes are in place and adhered to for clinical effectiveness and patient safety. The post holder will provide leadership, guidance and expertise within the wider multi-professional team for quality and governance. This will include putting in place strategies and frameworks that ensure services meet national, regional and local standards for good governance.

The post holder will implement and monitor the Clinical Risk Management and Safety Strategy for Women''s Services in line with the Trust''s Clinical Risk Management Strategy. They will oversee the governance team in working with clinical staff to identify risks, review risk assessments, report risks appropriately and will ensure that necessary actions are identified and completed and that learning takes place.

The person will be required to participate in the on-call provision.

Main duties of the job

Work closely with the Head of Maternity Governance, the senior management and directorate teams within Maternity to ensure that the service meets the statutory requirements and standards for Patient Safety Governance.

Responsible for leading the maternity patient safety agenda and ensure a unified approach to the review of patient safety incidents across the service, in line with the Trust Policies and Procedures and best practice guidance.

Be regularly visible / present in clinical areas, encouraging interaction with all groups of staff and gathering ''soft'' data to enable triangulation of data and establish effective working relationships.

Work closely with the other quality governance teams within the Trust to ensure meaningful and proactive triangulation of data.

Act as a focal point for incident reporting within Maternity and encourage all staff to make use of the In-phase reporting system and share resulting good practice and lessons learned.

Escalation of incidents within Maternity that meet the Trust Patient Safety Incident Response Plan to the weekly Risk Review meeting and to the Patient Safety Incident Review Group (PSIRG).

About usMaidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust ranks among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and was named the second-best Trust to work for in the South East in the 2023 and 2024 NHS Staff Survey.

We are a large acute hospital trust in south-east England, providing general hospital services and specialist care to around 600,000 residents in West Kent and East Sussex. With a dedicated and diverse team of over 8,000 staff we are proud to offer specialised cancer services to over two million people through the Kent Oncology Centre.

Fordcombe Hospital, near Tunbridge Wells, became part of the Trust in October 2024. Specialising in planned care, it offers two operating theatres, 28 inpatient and day-care beds, diagnostic services (X-ray, MRI, CT, and endoscopy), and consultation/treatment rooms.

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Joining us includes a comprehensive benefits package:

At least 27 days of annual leave plus public/bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time staff)

Membership in the NHS Pension Scheme, with a 20.6% employer contribution and life assurance benefit

Blue Light card eligibility

And more, additional benefits can be found in the benefits documents below

Job responsibilitiesWeve provided all the details you need about this role in the job description and person specification. Please take a moment to review the criteria in the person specification and share specific examples in your application that demonstrate how you meet these requirements. Please also check your application for errors/omissions prior to submission.

Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check at

Enhanced Leve l. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children). If a role involves regulated activity and requires a DBS check with a barred list check, you cannot apply if you are on the barred list.

All successful applicants will be required to complete our corporate trust induction once a start date had been agreed.

Following your corporate induction you will be expected to attend the Trusts 2-week Induction Programme for RNs, NAs, RMs, ODPs and Paramedics. The programme is full-time (please email mtw-tr.professionalstandards@nhs.net if this is problematic) and will involve travel to both Trust sites. The programme includes supernumerary shifts in the clinical area, classroom-based sessions and e-learning.

Person SpecificationQualifications

Registered Midwife or medic with relevant experience

Masters level degree, willingness to work toward or equivalent professional experience

Evidence of continuous professional development

Root cause analysis training

Completed Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) related Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) training

Risk Management Qualification or Equivalent

Experience/ Knowledge

Experienced midwife with at least 5 years post registration experience

Previous significant midwifery experience at a senior level

Previous experience working in either cooperative or midwifery governance

Detailed knowledge of risk and governance processes

Experience and evidence in identifying learning from incidents and ensuring that learning is shared and embedded

Experience of managing Datix/inphase and supporting incident handlers to investigate and close incidents

Experience of managing difficult situations

Knowledge of the principles of Duty of Candour and experience in providing verbal and written DoC to women and families

Evidence of skills in diplomacy and negotiation

Able to demonstrate wide knowledge of health policy and application to practice and processes

Understanding of NHS organisation and current issues

Adapt knowledge of the risk register, how it functions and the management

Understands the role of MNSI/PMRT

Knowledge and experience of PSIRF framework

Experience of operational management and manager on call

Experience of managing a project or a service development change

Experience with working with multidisciplinary team and other staff at all levels.

Practical experience of Clinical Governance principles, systems and processes with in experience of CQC

Experience of risk assessment

Evidence of staff development and training.

Experience of CQC Assessment standards

Knowledge of current research and relevance to practice

Ability to relate to a wide range of stakeholders

Skills

Ability to communicate concerns and issues with a range of people with differing communication needs

Able to lead, influence and persuade colleagues through change

Able to create and deliver presentations that effectively communicates information and ideas

Able to use excel for data input, analysis and producing graphs and reports, with proficient keyboard skills

Able to analyse and interpret findings of audits and develop action plans

Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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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