Job overview

With a keen interest and skill set aligned to patient safety, the Perinatal Quality & Safety Lead will be part of a small but dynamic Perinatal Senior Leadership Team. The post-holder will work with the team to deliver local and national strategies that underpin clinical governance. Through this work there will be a heavy focus on delivering safe and effective clinical treatments with a positive experience for women, birthing people and their families. 

The post-holder will have excellent leadership skills and will lead a maternity patient safety team, including a number of specialist midwives to deliver objectives to enable the service to meet national objectives and standards (e.g. CQC, CNST, LMNS). The post-holder will lead by example, collaborating with colleagues across the perinatal and divisional service, engage with stakeholders including the LMNS and MNVP to ensure services are accessible, transparent and meeting the needs of those who use our services. 

Main duties of the job

With this being a crucial role, the post-holder will be responsible for full oversight of all incidents across the department, ensuring thorough investigation is undertaken, supporting the application of PSIRF. The key objective is to maximise learning opportunity, adopting a quality improvement approach and imbedding robust processes to enable assurance through evidence. The post-holder will support with data collection and reporting, with the ability to apply a critical lens to ensure reporting is accurate.

The post holder will have a clear understanding of and experience of escalation by exception; and will be directly line managed by the Deputy Director of Midwifery, who, with the Clinical Director is jointly accountable for the clinical governance of maternity services. 

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.