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Job overview

The aim of this role is to support high quality maternity and neonatal services across women’s health group in line with the national ambition to implement maternity transformation and three year single delivery plan. This is to ensure the Quality Improvement methodology is embedded in every aspect of care provisions and human resource management, in support of high quality, effective and efficient services. This is to ensure the care group can withstand any external and internal scrutiny and national reports in to safer maternity care  for example CQC and maternity incentive scheme.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will act as professional role model, behaving in an exemplary manner at all times, demonstrating clinical leadership and midwifery oversight. Undertaking manager on-calls and manager of the day leadership
• Contribute to the provision of excellent care, providing evidenced based, personalised care, delivered in a variety of models
• Compliment the role of the senior midwifery team in ensuring that care provided is safe, inclusive and of a high standard
• Promote team working, review, plan, implement and maintain the elements of the care bundle and continuity model, whilst engaging the teams in a consistent approach to improving patient experience and outcomes.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of £1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and around 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King’s to another level.