Patient Safety Midwife
The closing date is 02 June 2026
We are currently looking for a Patient Safety Midwife to join our team based at the Worthing site of UH Sussex.
The role will be a job-share with our current post holder.
The Patient Safety Midwife will work collaboratively with other patient safety and risk management leads within the Women and Children's Division and Trust wide to promote a culture of safety and learning from experience and to promote best practice. They are expected to lead on monitoring, investigation and reporting of maternity related safety and risk and to proactively develop mechanisms for developing safer services. They will also provide support to the midwifery matrons for complaints and claims resolution as required.
Although based at Worthing, you may be required to cover periods of leave for the post holder at St Richard's Hospital, Chichester.
For further information on joining our Maternity team at UHSussex please view www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/maternity-jobs
Job responsibilities
* Create an environment in which effective learning from incidents can take place
* Coordinate the investigation and response to clinical incidents, and serious incidents requiring investigation on behalf of the maternity services, including facilitation of incident and panel reviews and feedback to staff and families
* Ensure compliance with Duty of Candour requirements through monitoring and collaborative working with HOM; Trust Patient Safety and Trust Governance
* Support the senior midwifery managers and trust complaints and legal teams in coordination of complaints and claims requirements
* Work in partnership with a range of clinicians and managers in the planning or development of the service to promote patient safety and risk
* Develop robust working relationships with wider patient safety teams within the Trust and in outside organisations
* Cascade information as appropriate to members of the wider team through internet, team briefings, newsletters and management
* Work closely with the Clinical Leads for Women’s Health and Senior Midwifery Managers to ensure information sharing regarding implementation of organisational objectives for patient safety
* Continuous responsibility for establishing systems and standards of communication for routine, complex and potentially stressful situations
* Attend meetings as required and act as a representative of the governance team
* Inclusion in the manager on call rota
Visa & Sponsorship
Please note: This role does not meet the minimum criteria for visa sponsorship under the current UK immigration rules, which set specific salary and skill thresholds. As such, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. Applicants will therefore need to already have the right to work in the UK to be considered. If you are applying using a Graduate visa as your right to work, you must have a minimum of 18 months remaining on your visa at the time of application.
Person specification
* Experienced midwife
* Good oral, written communication and IT skills
* Working knowledge of patient safety and governance
* People management skills, including leadership, decision making, negotiating, influencing skills
* Assessor/mentorship course or equivalent
* Evidence of continuous professional development
* Educated to Degree Level or equivalent
* Leadership / management course or equivalent / leadership experience
* Understanding and interest in patient safety
* Ability to manage resources effectively
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
* Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role).
* Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues
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.
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515 a year pro rata
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