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Lead Midwife for Quality and Assurance, Stevenage
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East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
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Job Reference:
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6
Posted:
19.08.2025
Expiry Date:
03.10.2025
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Job Description:
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Lead Midwife for Quality and Assurance who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
This role will support the strategic and operational delivery of a challenging quality improvement agenda across Women’s Services. The Lead Midwife for Quality & Assurance will be responsible for project managing all of the work streams within the Women’s Services improvement program portfolio, working collaboratively with other program managers including the program manager for the Local Maternity and Neonatal Systems and work stream teams, to deliver a variety of service improvement projects including NHS Resolutions 10 steps to safety.
Building upon program planning already undertaken, the Lead Midwife for Quality & Assurance will work closely with the patient safety programme leadership team, clinical leads and divisional management and governance staff to design, plan and deliver improvement projects using recognised quality improvement principles.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will champion and promote quality as a key focus within maternity and perinatal services and across the health system to improve clinical productivity and effectiveness.
You will also ensure effective governance systems are in place across maternity, neonatology and gynaecology; particularly guideline, audit, quality standards and quality improvement.
The post holder will provide expert advice to senior clinicians/managers on the successful delivery of small and large scale change projects.
Additionally, you will need to explain strategy and organisational decisions in relation to delivering the maternity safety and quality agenda to everyone in the organisation.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
Hertford County, Hertford
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation, and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
* Registered Midwife with current NMC registration, Masters level qualification (or working towards) or equivalent experience
* Evidence of further professional and personal development
* Leadership or management module / qualification
Previous Experience
* Demonstrable experience in project management / quality improvement
* Ability to collate and analyse statistical and qualitative information
* Experience of implementing change projects
* Experience of effective working within a team and alone
* Experience of working with minimal supervision
* Demonstrates commitment to improving the quality of patient care
* Ability to support a range of staff and quality / clinical services / professional activity
* Experience of working with patients / service / stakeholders to improve quality of service
* Working knowledge of the CQC core service frameworks and KLOE
* Experience in engaging with service users and interpreting feedback into service improvements
* Quality improvement training
* Experience in providing advice on complex professional and other HR issues
Skills
* Ability to deal confidently with staff at all levels of an organization
* Well developed interpersonal skills with the ability to work with a range of professionals
* Ability to make decisions and solve complex problems
* Committed to continuous service development and quality improvement
* Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines and targets
* Reliable and supportive
* Advance planning and organisational skills
* Excellent leadership, influencing and motivational skills
* Excellent abilities in concise and accurate report writing and presentation of information
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Proficient in the use of MS Office applications: Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, Explorer and PowerPoint
* Ability to define, collate, retrieve and manipulate data
* The ability to maintain and respect confidentiality – Information Governance, issues of confidentiality (data protection, Freedom of Information Act, Caldicott)
* Developing and delivering training programs
* Able to negotiate and influence at an organizational level and externally with a range of stakeholders
* Excellent communication skills at all levels, confident when speaking in public and at large meetings
* Evidence of published work
Knowledge
* Knowledge of the components of governance, risk management and assurance function, current NHS national policies, standards, requirements and directions that relate to measuring and improving the quality and safety of patient care
* Knowledge of quality improvement tools and techniques
* Knowledge and understanding of professional standards and requirements
Other Requirements
* Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
* Role model our Trust values every day
* Commitment to continuous improvement activities
* Positive attitude towards change
* Commitment to staff development
* Occasional flexibility to work outside of normal working hours (e.g. to attend meetings with divisional representatives)
* Demonstrate enthusiasm and commitment to improvement focused patient safety and quality initiatives, research and its application to practice
* Resilience and ability to get the job done
* Complete finisher working to tight deadlines
* Kind and compassionate
* Self-motivated, can organize and prioritise work using own initiative
* Can work to deadlines whilst maintaining a high standard
* Methodical and systematic approach to work, involving close attention to detail
* Maintaining a professional appearance
* Able to participate in on-call rota and able to contribute to the clinical roster
Our values
We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.
Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.
Committed to our Community
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing [emailprotected]
We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.
We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.
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