Role: Maternity Governance Lead
Contract Length: 4 months
Location: Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £30.18 per hour + holidays + pension
Spinwell is recruiting for a Maternity Governance Lead for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE MATERNITY GOVERNANCE LEAD
The Head of Governance role is to oversee and take accountability for CNST and to provide leadership to staff across the Maternity services, inclusive of advising the Director of Midwifery and Clinical Director of local and national strategies to support continuous improvement of Governance within the service.
The post holder will lead on the development of the Maternity governance and assurance framework overseeing key workstreams for quality assurance, complaints, risk and patient safety, ensuring appropriate training programmes and guidelines are in place to support frontline staff in the management of incidents, associated action plans and clinical quality improvement plans.
This is a pivotal in the leadership and management of the Maternity Governance team, to ensure strong people management including appropriate supervision, health and wellbeing, education and training and team development.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE MATERNITY GOVERNANCE LEAD
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Master’s Degree or equivalent experience in relevant field
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Evidence of continuous professional and personal development
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Recent experience at senior governance or safety/risk role in an acute health care setting
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Proven ability to develop and communicate a long-term vision for governance and translate into plans, objectives and deliverables for the organisation
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Demonstrable evidence of developing and leading change management processes for the benefit of patients and service users
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Proven experience and responsibility for clinical governance systems (NHS governance)
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Understanding of the NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)
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Understanding of national maternity safety programmes
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Experience of working with multi-disciplinary groups – utilising quality improvement methodologies
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Experience of working with Trained in After Action Review (AAR)
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Organisation of Risk Management and corporate governance in a large acute trust setting
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Experience of working with integrated governance software systems (i.e. InPhase or Datix)
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Sound understanding of NHS governance and risk frameworks and requirements and ability to research good practice solutions to its implementation
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Translating and developing policies
If you are a Maternity Governance Lead, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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