Job summary
Employer heading
Audit and Quality Midwife
Band 7
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has risen for a Band 6 or 7 midwife with more than 3 years’ experience and who is clinically shrewd, organised and embraces working as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
The post holder will be able to:
- Provide and lead specialist midwifery practice in the development, coordination, of clinical Audits, processes evidence to support safe, effective high quality maternity care.
- Provide multidisciplinary clinical staff with the support to effectively implement clinical audits across all its component parts for maternity services, within a framework.
- Should be able to use information to improve the systems of care and evidence to support effective outcomes.
- Will manage and work closely with GAP GROW Lead Midwife to meet Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle version 3 requirements.
The post holder will have a key role in ensuring the progress of Women’s services towards standardisation of all clinical audits developing and review guidelines for Maternity service in liaison with multi- disciplinary colleagues.
Main duties of the job
Clinical audit is an integral part of Barts Health clinical governance activity and contributes to achieving the Trust’s objective of providing safe and evidence- based care to women that access our services.
The post holder will provide multidisciplinary clinical staff with the support to effectively implement clinical audits across all its component parts for maternity services, within a framework which uses information to improve the systems of care and evidence to support effective outcomes.
The post holder will have a key role in ensuring the progress of Women’s services towards standardization of all clinical audits developing and reviewing guidelines for Maternity service in liaison with multi- disciplinary colleagues.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Registered Midwife
- • Educated to degree level
- • Teaching/mentorship qualification
- • Fulfils KSF outline for Band 6 Midwife
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Ability to demonstrate significant experience in all midwifery practice
- • Ability to offer constructive suggestions for service improvement
- • Experience in carrying out tasks related to evaluating services
- • Understanding and rising to the challenges in service improvement
- • Ability to lead the Midwifery team in service improvement
- • Ability to work within set timeframes working to priorities and deadlines
- • Ability to monitor the quality of own and others work
- • Ability to use and maintain resources efficiently and effectively and encourage others to do so
- • Ability to work on the ‘Great Expectations’ Project Quality Data reports to meet deadlines when required
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of current and emerging NHS strategy and policy
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- • Excellent interpersonal, managerial, and organisational skills
- • Good written and verbal communication skills
- • Demonstrate clinical leadership skills
- • Ability to record and report back accurately and fully on patient assessments undertaken and risks identified
- • Ability to prioritise clinical work effectively
Communication
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- • Ability to communicate effectively at all levels across the Department and CAU/CAG/Trust/Organisations
- • Ability communicates effectively, both written and verbally
- • Ability to self-reflect, carry out tasks of own job and identify what s/he needs to learn to able to do current job better
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shama Ahmed
- Job title
- Audit and Quality Midwife
- Email address
- [email protected]
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