Lead Midwife - Clinical Governance & Quality

The Role:

We are looking to recruit a Lead Midwife (Clinical Governance & Quality) to join the Maternity & Neonates Team at University Hospital Wishaw.

The successful candidates focus will be to ensure a safe high quality service and outstanding patient experience, to ensure a robust clinical governance and quality strategy across the Womens services, that interfaces with key interdependencies such as gynaecology and anaesthetics.

The successful candidates will:

• Provide midwifery leadership/management of the maternity governance and quality team which consists of risk, quality improvement, education and digital midwifery / neonatal teams.
• Work with the service triumvirates to ensure the standards of cinical governance are upheld
• Lead quality initiatives across the perinatal services ensuring ongoing evaluation of the care standards and service delivery.
• Give advice on risk management issues related to service provision within the Womens Services.
• Provide leadership support and direction to all senior midwives and midwifery specialists regarding clinical governance and quality
• Lead and participate in the co-ordination and management of clinical risk.
• Provide leadership with the clinical staff to identify risks, carry out risk assessments, report risks appropriately, and ensure that necessary actions follow and learning takes place
• Lead a positive safety culture across perinatal services
• Ensure support and advice is provided to staff, women, and their families within the governance framework.
• Provide leadership support and direction to all senior midwives and midwifery specialists regarding clinical governance and quality.
• Work collaboratively with the Director of Midwifery, service triumvirate and key stakeholders to ensure that the Womens Services is well prepared for all internal and external assurance processes.
• Demonstrate leadership in the fostering and facilitation of close working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and relevant external organisations e.g. the local maternity and neonatal system.
• Ensure that the Maternity Risk and Governance Strategy is effectively conveyed to all staff and is translated into operational practice.

Contract type:

Band 8A / Permanent / Full Time / 37 hours

NHS Lanarkshire:

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

Why join NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service (pro-rata for part time staff)
• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• Occupational health services
• Employee Counselling services
• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

What we'll need you to bring:

• Registered Nurse/Midwife with valid NMC Registration
• Educated to/working towards/operating at Masters Level.
• Be able to demonstrate knowledge of NHS Scotlands Leadership Qualities framework or equivalent framework.
• Management knowledge gained through experience and continuous professional development.
• Professional, leadership and managerial experience within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently. 
• Extensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the health care agenda.
• Experience of assessing training needs.
• Experience of resource management i.e. financial; human; capital.
• Experience in service planning, project management and performance monitoring/reporting.
• Knowledge and experience of needs assessment and analysis/interpretation of related data.
• A proven track record in sound and effective leadership.  Ability to think strategically and act as a team player.
• A proven track record in developing innovative solutions in service requirements and motivating staff to affect change.
• A proven track record in developing teams/services and integrated solutions to complex and challenging problems.
• Working knowledge of basic information technology.

It would be good if you also had:

• Masters Degree
• Evidence of ongoing personal/professional development appropriate to area of practice
• Registered Midwife with relevant post registration practice
• Expert practice in the speciality and evidence of relevant continued professional development/qualification within the specialty
• Demonstration of experience of contributing to interagency work
• Knowledge of McQuic, CAAS, Workforce and all other areas and department that the post cover
• Working understanding of Child Protectio
• Excellent team working skills
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Effective listening, communication and interpersonal skills
• Effective time management skills

Looking to find out more?

If youre looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Cheryl Clark at Cheryl.clark@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Devon Westwater at Devon.Westwater@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email.

Further Information:

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If youre looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

Additional Information for Applicants:

• Posts close at midnight on the indicated date
• For help to complete an application on Jobtrain please follow this link: https://www.careers.nhs.scot/how-to-apply/application-process/
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• Once you have submitted your application form you will be unable to make any amendments

In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

We anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received.  Please complete and submit your application early.

*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential childrens setting/secure unit.

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.

We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. UK Visas & Immigration rules are available at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to check eligibility in advance of applying for vacancies in NHS Lanarkshire.

From 1 April 2024, the working week for NHS Agenda for Change workers in Scotland will be reduced.  Full-time hours will reduce from 37.5 to 37 hours (pro rata for part-time staff) without loss of earnings.

NHS Lanarkshire will implement this change but it may not be possible to fully transition from 1 April and there may therefore be some areas of the organisation where implementation may take longer.  If the department is currently unable to safely accommodate the reduced hours from 1st April, you may be required to work 37.5 hours per week until the department can meet the requirements without impacting patient safety - you will, of course, be remunerated accordingly. NHS Lanarkshire is committed to full implementation of the 37 hour working week across all areas as soon as it is safe to do so.

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