Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Governance Midwife
The closing date is 03 November 2025
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife to join the Maternity Governance Team. The post holder will be part of a team of senior midwives that lead on implementing governance processes, across the service, in collaboration with the Quality and Safety Matron and Head of Midwifery. The post holder will participate and lead in reviewing incidents and adhering to statutory reporting processes for serious incidents that involve MNSI, PMRT or StEIS; liaising with families to ensure that their voices are heard in the investigation process and that the service adheres to applying the principles for Duty of Candour.
The post holder will be responsible for reviewing, monitoring, and evaluating incident reports in conjunction with the senior midwifery team to ensure that timely review, investigation, and escalation occurs. Ensuring that any lessons learned are fed back to the staff involved and the service, facilitating organisational learning.
The postholder will also be the lead for the guideline and audit process within the service.
An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both Adults & Children is required for this post.
Job description subject to change as per AfC review.
Main duties of the job
* Be responsible for managing incident reporting ensuring relevant reviews are undertaken, incidents closed with learning disseminated
* Provide professional and managerial support in relation to clinical risk.
* Where appropriate deputise for the Quality and Safety Matron
* The post holder will assist the Quality and Safety Maternity team in achieving and maintaining high CQC standards and achieving MBRRACE recommendations, the NPSA and or any other relevant agencies.
* Identify incidents that require reporting to the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) and support the reporting and investigation process for these cases.
* Participate and support the Perinatal Mortality Review Process, notifying cases and contributing to case surveillance. Drafting and reviewing reports in partnership with the Quality and Safety Matron and the Obstetric Lead.
* Coordinate Avoiding Term Admissions Into Neonatal (ATAIN) reviews in partnership with the NNU Team and ensure that maternity learning is disseminated.
* Lead in the co-ordination of directorate risk activities including Guidelines and Audit, Serious Incidents and other risk reporting; including near miss reporting, Duty of Candour, and ensuring that learning is disseminated and effective to reduce re-occurrence of event.
About us
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
* Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
* Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
* National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Job responsibilities
Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.
Proposed Interview date: 17th November 2025 TBC
Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Midwife with current NMC Registration
* Evidence of degree or evidence of degree level study or willingness to work towards
* Evidence of post registration education.
Knowledge & Experience
* Works well under pressure and has demonstrable experience of meeting project deadlines.
* Knowledge and awareness of the principles of governance in Healthcare and Maternity
* Evidence of experience and understanding of governance processes
* Evidence in the involvement in the development of guidelines and protocols.
* Evidence of teaching and mentoring.
* Demonstrates a knowledge of national reporting systems and standards relating to governance
* Root Cause Analysis Training
Skills
* Ability to demonstrate a wide range of midwifery experience.
* Ability to promote a positive and inclusive culture within teams
* Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills with the ability to engage, build and sustain relationships both within the trust and externally
* Excellent communication and presentation skills, written, and verbal skills.
* Evidence of excellent report writing skills
* Able to apply action learning and other methods to facilitate staff development
* Proven ability to influence, motivate, support and gain the respect of other health professionals.
* Previous research and audit experience
Other
* Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
* Ability to work without supervision, autonomously and use own initiative
* Ability to work flexibly and manage competing priorities
* Ability to work as a team member
* Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with people from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds.
* Good knowledge of IT systems, Including, word, Excel, power point etc
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.
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