Deputy Lead Midwife - Quality Assurance, Governance and Compliance

Job overview

Are you an experienced and motivated midwifery leader with a passion for quality, safety and continuous improvement?

We are seeking an exceptional Deputy Lead Midwife to play a pivotal role in shaping and strengthening maternity governance across our services. Working closely with senior maternity leaders, you will help drive the quality and safety agenda, ensuring women, babies and families receive the highest standards of care. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategic improvement programmes, support regulatory compliance, embed learning from incidents and reviews, and champion a culture of excellence across our maternity services.

We are looking for an experienced registered midwife with strong leadership skills, excellent governance knowledge and the ability to inspire multidisciplinary teams to deliver meaningful change. You will be a credible and collaborative leader who is passionate about improving outcomes, enhancing patient experience and supporting staff to achieve their best.

In return, you will join one of the UK's leading maternity services within an internationally renowned NHS Trust, offering opportunities for professional development, innovation, research and system-wide influence.

Main duties of the job

• Support the Lead Midwife Quality Assurance, Governance & Compliance on monitoring standards of a range of clinical governance, clinical effectiveness, audit and patient safety activities, in liaison with other multidisciplinary professionals and functional heads within the Safety and Effectiveness team.
• Support the Lead Midwife for Quality Assurance, Governance & Compliance to provide an oversight of the strategic and operational delivery of all aspects of quality assurance pertinent to the business of clinical governance in maternity that is safety centric, as well as demonstrating good quality governance is understood and practised across all professional groups within maternity services.
• Hold responsibility for the development, coordination, and ongoing monitoring of a comprehensive maternity action plan, incorporating all actions and recommendations arising from internal reviews, external investigations, audits, inspections, and regulatory reports, ensuring timely implementation, oversight, and assurance of progress.
• The post holder is responsible for ensuring effective governance systems are in place across maternity and particularly guideline, clinical audit, risk management, training and Maternity Incentive Scheme (MIS).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Applicant requirements

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.