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Lead Midwife/Nurse for Women’s Health Quality, Risk and Governance, Glasgow
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Client:
NHS Scotland
Location:
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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EU work permit required:
Yes
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Job Reference:
0acfa45f63cf
Job Views:
7
Posted:
02.06.2025
Expiry Date:
17.07.2025
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Job Description:
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.
The shift pattern for this post is Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.
This is an exciting new development in NHSGGC Women’s services.
This is a new permanent full-time post working across NHS GGC maternity and gynaecology services.
The purpose of the role is to play a key leadership role in the maternity and gynaecology quality, risk and governance functions, working closely with medical, midwifery, nursing and clinical governance colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team.
The post holder’s focus will be to work as a key part of the maternity and gynaecology services leadership team to ensure a safe, high-quality service to those receiving maternity and gynaecology care and to implement and embed a robust clinical governance, practice development and quality strategy across Women’s services.
The lead midwife will work collaboratively with the Director of Midwifery, Associate Chief midwife, other lead midwives and service triumvirate and key stakeholders to ensure that Women’s Services is well prepared for all internal and external assurance processes.
The post-holder will demonstrate leadership in the fostering and facilitation of close working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and relevant external organisations e.g. the local maternity and neonatal system, primary care colleagues and national organisations including HIS, SPSP,NES, MBrrace and PMRT.
The post-holder will also work to ensure that the Risk and Governance elements of the NHSGGC Maternity and Neonatal Strategy are effectively conveyed to all staff and translated into operational practice.
The lead midwife/nurse for quality, risk and management will head up a newly formed ‘Women’s health governance team’. This will include line management and professional leadership of the maternity and gynaecology clinical risk team, the practice development midwifery team, digital midwifery team and our quality improvement specialist midwife.
The post-holder will work with the wider multi-disciplinary team, including general management, obstetric, anaesthetic, neonatology and other colleagues to ensure the standards of clinical governance are upheld.
The lead midwife will lead the further development of a positive safety culture across women’s services. This will build on the existing development of the shared behaviours charter, peer support network, clinical supervision and Civility Saves lives work.
The post-holder will lead, oversee and support quality improvement initiatives across women’s services, ensuring ongoing evaluation of care standards and service delivery and supporting the development of active quality improvement work across our practice areas.
The post-holder will support and have oversight of local unit clinical risk processes to ensure consistency across sites. This will include providing advice and guidance on risk management issues related to service provision within Women’s Services. The post-holder will be part of the weekly core group overseeing the commissioning of SAERs, the review of SAER reports and SAER recommendations.
The post-holder will lead the development of maternity and gynaecology practice development. This will include developing new innovative approaches effectively using technology to encourage and support ongoing training, and monitoring and improving compliance with core mandatory training requirements. The post-holder will lead and oversee work to improve support and retention of maternity support workers and care assistants, early career midwives, midwives and nurses new to GGC and midwives requiring additional skill development.
The lead midwife will lead the work of the digital midwifery team (currently one WTE post, with two post-holders). This will include working with the wider E health, Business Intelligence and Clinical Governance teams to develop a fully functioning Maternity Dashboard, with regular reporting of key performance indicators and outcomes.
Informal Contact: Dr Mary Ross-Davie, Director of Midwifery at [emailprotected] or 07816186259.
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde encourages applications from all sections of the community. We promote a culture of inclusion across the organisation and are proud of the diverse workforce we have.
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