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Job summary

Main area
Maternity Services
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
269-SFT9307
Employer
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Town
Salisbury
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata if part time
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/10/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust logo

Quality and Safety Facilitator Midwife

Band 6

 


Job overview

The Quality and Safety Facilitator Midwife is a role that is integral to promoting and supporting a positive culture of learning. It will provide essential support to the Maternity and Neonatal team through ensuring the co-ordination of clinical risk across the service on a daily basis. The individual will work with all grades of clinical staff and managers across the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to identify risks, report risks appropriately, be involved in the incident reporting and management system, ensuring that necessary actions follow, and learning takes place. The individual will contribute to the healthcare governance agenda together with the Quality and Safety Team.

Main duties of the job

To support the provision of healthcare to women and new-borns treated by Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust by supporting the delivery of mechanisms in place, in respect of risk management and patient safety incidents.

To receive, review, grade and investigate all reported clinical incidents and near misses together with the divisional and central risk management team.

To ensure that any immediate actions from incidents are escalated as appropriate.

To ensure effective communication (written and verbal) with all staff within maternity services providing feedback to staff through a variety of methods and ensuring all staff involved in the incidents are signposted to appropriate support services.

To maintain an incident reporting system which fulfils internal, and external reporting requirements. Ensuring that incidents are investigated at an appropriate level and resulting improvements can be evidenced 

To collate and maintain a database of incident data and use incident trend analysis to identify trends from Datix incidents. Analyse and triangulate information; identify and implement mitigation and solutions to reduce risk. 

To promote a ‘Just Culture’ approach within patient safety incidents.

To lead by personal example, role-modelling when working with others and sharing expertise in clinical practice.

 

Working for our organisation

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service.  We think working here is pretty rewarding.  You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme. 

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything.  With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible.  Don’t just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Person specification

Person Sepcification

Essential criteria
  • NMC Registered Midwife
  • 3 years recent NHS clinical experience in acute and community midwifery settings
  • Datix (incident reporting) skills
  • Awareness of clinical governance and NHS Safety Framework
  • Evidence of facilitating learning
  • Knowledge of NHS 'Just Culture'
  • IT skills
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of continued professional development

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyDisability confident leaderImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingWe Work FlexiblyPeople PromiseNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark 2024

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Danielle Freemantle
Job title
Quality and Safety Matron
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01722 336262
Additional information

Ext 5288

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