Lead Midwife for Patient Safety & Quality
The closing date is 30 April 2026
Join the Princess Alexandra Hospital’s Women’s Health Clinical Governance team – we’re looking for a self‑motivated midwife to help us deliver safe, high‑quality, responsive care.
Main duties of the job
* Supporting the delivery of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) within Women’s Health (WH).
* Overseeing the Maternity Risk Register.
* Supporting and advising on quality issues, patient safety, and clinical governance and risk management to all clinical staff.
* Coordinating, facilitating and supporting the WH MDT in working towards achieving and maintaining CQC Standards and evidencing safety actions for the Maternity Incentive Scheme.
* Producing reports, chairing meetings, tracking all aspects of governance within Maternity, and ensuring governance frameworks are maintained and updated.
Job overview
The Lead Midwife for Patient Safety & Quality role is integral to coordinating and developing clinical governance within the maternity service. The postholder will support the Director of Midwifery, Gynaecology and Assistant Chief Nurse and the Head of Women’s Health Governance and Assurance in ensuring delivery of high-quality care and robust governance frameworks. As an integral member of the Women’s Health clinical governance team, the role contributes to sharing learning, implementing change and quality improvement projects. The postholder will be passionate about driving improvement within the service and have an excellent working knowledge of current clinical guidelines, with the ability to apply evidence-based practice to incident and risk management processes. This specialist role requires strong organisational and communication skills and an ability to manage a complex workload, alongside line management and manager on‑call responsibilities.
Detailed responsibilities
* Supporting the delivery of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) within Women’s Health (WH). This includes overseeing Maternity investigations including but not limited to Patient Safety Incident Investigations (PSIIs), After Action Reviews (AARs) and incident reviews; ensuring prompt reporting; supporting the WH multidisciplinary team (MDT) in undertaking reviews; implementing learning; and tracking/progressing actions.
* Overseeing the Maternity Risk Register, ensuring regular review and supporting progress on actions.
* Disseminating alerts (ISB/MDA/MHRA) to managers and relevant teams and monitoring actions required in response to these.
* As a member of the WH clinical governance team, jointly monitoring the incident reporting system, providing support to the WH MDT in response to incidents and external alerts.
* Coordinating, facilitating and supporting the WH MDT in working towards achieving and maintaining CQC Standards and evidencing safety actions for the Maternity Incentive Scheme.
* Supporting and advising on quality issues, patient safety, and clinical governance and risk management to all clinical staff. This involves working closely with the WH clinical governance team to achieve service‑wide learning and improvements. This includes contributing to departmental newsletters, presentations at learning forums and meetings, delivering MDT teaching, updating and creating guidelines and patient information leaflets and attending safety huddles.
* Supporting the WH MDT with complaints and PALS responses and assisting the legal team with investigations and claims as required.
* Producing reports, chairing meetings, tracking all aspects of governance within Maternity, and ensuring governance frameworks are maintained and updated. This requires close working with the corporate patient safety team and other Trust PSQ leads.
* Identifying and escalating incident and PALS trends, supporting learning and quality improvement work to address these, and ensuring the risk register reflects trends.
* Deputise for the Head of Women’s Health Governance and Assurance at relevant Trust meetings.
* Undertaking Duty of Candour and ensuring the process is monitored and the service is compliant.
* Provides cover for when other members of the Clinical Governance team are absent – e.g. the Lead Nurse for Patient Safety and Quality (gynaecology) and the Lead Midwife for Quality and Compliance.
* Assist the Head of Women’s Health Governance and Assurance in providing assurance for the Maternity (Perinatal) Incentive Scheme, Saving Babies Lives’ Care Bundle, Maternal Care Bundle, and recommendations from national maternity reviews such as Ockenden.
Qualifications
* Registered midwife
* Degree in nursing, midwifery or equivalent
* Practice assessor qualification or equivalent mentorship course
* Leadership course
* After Action Review training
Experience
* Evidence of post‑registration professional continuous development and portfolio of learning
* Evidence of clinical competence and regular clinical practice
* Recent experience in antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care and robust knowledge of current clinical guidelines
* Evidence of leadership experience
* Use of computerised information systems
* Experience of audit
* Understanding of PSIRF (Patient Safety Incident Response Framework)
* Experience in clinical effectiveness such as contributing to guideline updates
* Understanding of SEIPS (Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety)
* Experience in quality improvement work or example of contributing to service improvements
* Experience of engaging with service‑users regarding their experiences, such as through complaints, providing debriefs or attending MNVP meetings
* Experience of writing and delivering presentations
* Experience of report writing
* Management of incidents
* Management of risks on a risk register
* Experience in a clinical governance role
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
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