Perinatal Mortality & Maternity Incentive Scheme Lead Midwife

Job overview

The post holder will provide senior midwifery leadership and specialist support to Maternity Services in the coordination, implementation, monitoring and delivery of national and local maternity safety, quality and governance standards. The post holder will have specific responsibility for leading the Trust’s maternity assurance against the NHS Resolution Maternity Incentive Scheme and the Ockenden recommendations, ensuring that requirements are effectively embedded within maternity practice and that robust evidence is maintained to demonstrate compliance and assurance.

The post holder will work closely with the Obstetric Clinical Governance Lead, Director of Midwifery, Women’s and Children’s Risk Manager, Group Clinical Director, Senior Midwifery Team and wider multidisciplinary colleagues to provide effective oversight of maternity safety, quality and governance requirements. The post holder will support the identification of gaps in compliance, develop and monitor improvement plans, and provide timely escalation where progress or assurance is insufficient.

Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Main duties of the job

• Lead on the coordination and monitoring of MIS and Ockenden requirements, ensuring that evidence is accurately collated, quality assured and maintained in preparation for internal and external assurance processes. This will include working across maternity services to ensure that actions are clearly allocated, SMART, monitored and progressed, with appropriate evidence of impact and sustained improvement.
• Provide specialist oversight and assurance across key areas of maternity quality and safety, including the clinical accuracy and timely review of guidelines, policies and patient information leaflets, clinical audit programmes, quality improvement (QI) projects, risk management and learning from incidents, complaints, claims and external reviews. They will support teams to translate learning into sustainable improvements in clinical practice and monitor the effectiveness of actions taken.
• Contribute to the development of a strong culture of continuous learning, improvement, transparency and accountability across perinatal Services. They will support the dissemination and embedding of learning from MIS, Ockenden, national maternity reviews, incidents, audits, complaints and quality improvement activity, ensuring that learning is shared across the multidisciplinary workforce and translated into measurable improvements in care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Support the Perinatal Mortality Review process, including participation in the multidisciplinary review panel, monitoring compliance with the Perinatal Mortality Review Tool (PMRT) and relevant MIS requirements, and ensuring that learning and recommendations are translated into measurable improvement.
• Maintain up-to-date specialist knowledge of maternity governance, quality and safety requirements, including MIS, Ockenden, CQC standards, PMRT, PSIRF, national maternity safety initiatives and relevant national and regional guidance.
• Work autonomously within the scope of professional practice, demonstrating effective leadership, prioritisation and decision-making while recognising when issues require escalation to the appropriate senior clinical or governance lead.
• Deputise for or provide additional support to the Women’s and Children’s Risk Manager, where required, contributing to the overall maternity governance, assurance and quality agenda.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of multidisciplinary training and education arising from MIS, Ockenden, audit, incidents, perinatal mortality reviews, complaints, national reports and other identified learning, ensuring that learning is effectively disseminated and embedded.
• Ensure that patient experience, equality and health inequalities data are considered alongside clinical governance information when identifying priorities for improvement and assurance.
• Lead the coordination and monitoring of maternity actions arising from the Ockenden recommendations.
• Maintain an up-to-date overview of progress against Ockenden requirements and associated maternity safety recommendations.
• Identify areas where further work or assurance is required and escalate appropriately.
• Support the development and review of maternity improvement plans arising from Ockenden and other national maternity reviews.
• Ensure learning from Ockenden is embedded within maternity policies, guidelines, education, clinical practice and governance arrangements.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

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.