Patient Safety Midwife

Job overview

We are currently looking for a Patient Safety Midwife to join our team based at Worthing site of UH Sussex.

The role will be a job-share with our current post holder.

The Patient Safety Midwife will work collaboratively with other patient safety and risk management leads within the Women and Children’s Division and Trust wide to promote a culture of safety and learning from experience and to promote best practice. They are expected to lead on monitoring, investigation and reporting of maternity related safety and risk and to proactively develop mechanisms for developing safer services. They will also provide support to the midwifery matrons for complaints and claims resolution as required.

Although based at Worthing, you may be required to cover periods of leave for the post holder at St Richard's Hospital, Chichester.

For further information on joining our Maternity team at UHSussex please view www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/maternity-jobs

Main duties of the job

Create an environment in which effective learning from incidents can take place

Coordinate the investigation and response to clinical incidents, and serious incidents requiring investigation on behalf of the maternity services including facilitation of incident and panel reviews and feedback to staff and families

Ensure compliance with Duty of Candour requirements through monitoring and collaborative working with HOM ; Trust Patient Safety and Trust Governance

Support the senior midwifery managers and trust complaints and legal teams in co-ordination of complaints and claims requirements

Work in partnership with a range of clinicians and managers in the planning or development of the service to promote patient safety and risk

Develop robust working relationships with wider patient safety teams within the Trust and in outside organisations, such as

Cascade information as appropriate to members of the wider team through internet, team briefings, newsletters and management

Work closely with the Clinical Leads for Women’s Health and Senior Midwifery Managers to ensure information sharing regarding implementation of organisational objectives for patient

Continuous responsibility for establishing systems and standards of communication for routine, complex and potentially stressful

Attend meetings as required and act as a representative of the governance team.

Inclusion in the manager on call rota.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Coordinate the investigation and response to clinical incidents, and serious incidents requiring investigation on behalf of the maternity services including facilitation of incident and panel reviews and feedback to staff and families

*Please see attached job description for detailed description and main  responsibilities.*

Please note: This role does not meet the minimum criteria for visa sponsorship under the current UK immigration rules, which set specific salary and skill thresholds. As such, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. Applicants will therefore need to already have the right to work in the UK to be considered. We include this information at the outset to provide clarity and avoid unnecessary inconvenience for applicants.

If you are applying using a Graduate visa as your right to work, you must have a minimum of 18 months remaining on your visa at time of application.