Patient Safety Lead for Maternity and Neonatal Services

Job overview

Are you a dynamic and forward-thinking midwife with a passion for driving safe, high-quality maternity and neonatal services? Do you thrive in a culture of continuous learning and collaborative improvement? This is an exciting opportunity to take on a pivotal leadership role where your expertise and values will directly shape safer, more responsive care for women, birthing people, babies, and families.

As Patient Safety Lead for Maternity and Neonatal Services, you will be at the forefront of delivering meaningful change. Leading a dedicated team, you will be accountable for implementing and sustaining service improvements generated through patient safety learning and incident response. You will take a lead role in the continued application and embedding of the NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), ensuring it becomes a foundation for learning and improvement.

You will actively engage with families, ensuring their experiences are central to how services evolve, and you will champion opportunities for co-production, working collaboratively with service users and staff to shape meaningful and sustainable improvements.  A critical part of your role will be the development of robust and transparent governance pathways that support learning, accountability, and improvement across maternity and neonatal services.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the perinatal service in delivery of the Patent Safety Incident Response framework and ensure delivery on the key components of patient safety, report any variance from the plan, and recommend and implement corrective action in liaison with the Divisional Quadrumvirate.
• Implement and monitor risk management and clinical policies to ensure their effectiveness. Review and amend local policies and procedures where required.
• Ensure that risk registers are in use and up to date across the service and appropriately escalated to the corporate risk register as necessary.
• .      In conjunction with the Senior Perinatal team, ensure the delivery of the CQC framework and all quality assurance agendas in and across the perinatal service

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Identify and ensure appropriate responses to recommendations from national and regional bodies are reported to relevant Governance Group and ensure that appropriate plans are made to address these, i.e. NICE, the Healthcare Commission, Department of Health, National Confidential Enquiries, Royal Colleges etc. Maintain records of responses and actions taken.
• Work with the Matrons to ensure that quality assurance processes are in place to meet Trust wide, regional and national recommendations across relevant areas in the service.
• Ensure that perinatal records are audited and maintained and managed within current national and local guidance.
• Ensure there are appropriate systems in place on the reporting, management and investigation of clinical incidents, in line with The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework. Ensure that learning is shared throughout the Division/wider organisation.
• Ensure accurate data is provided to inform the maternity dashboards both locally, regionally and nationally.
• .   Be responsible for supporting the clinical audit department, ensuring appropriate audits are undertaken as outlined in the audit programme.
• Develop robust processes to ensure that lessons learned/recommendations from incidents and complaints are disseminated to all relevant staff in a timely manner and embedded in practice
• Ensure that robust and comprehensive governance arrangements exist within the service and implementing information governance requirements and compliance with Equality Schemes.
• Oversee the timely completion of externally required reporting including Perinatal Mortality Tool, MBRRACE, Each Baby Counts, MNSI etc.
• .    Provide leadership and expert advice on Patient Safety coordinate all aspects of Governance across the maternity service, ensuring integration of the Divisional Quality objectives with that of the professional Clinical Governance objectives.

For further details please see attached Job Description