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Job overview

The post holder will support, facilitate and co-ordinate the development of Clinical Governance, patient safety and Risk Management within the Healthcare Group and support the Director of Midwifery and Head of Maternity Governance and Assurance in ensuring delivery of high quality care and robust governance frameworks.

The post holder will provide support to staff working within the Healthcare Group across the area of care delivery. They will be an active member of the team for Family and Women’s services working to ensure and support effective communication pathways and thereby improving the patient experience.

Required to organise own workload on a day to day basis, self-motivated and able to work on own initiative. Will act as lead specialist for area for patient safety and quality.

Main duties of the job

• Responsible for the incident reporting system on a day-to-day basis and providing support to the health group.
• Responsible for the Maternity and Gynaecology Risk Registers and ensuring they are updated on a regular basis.
• Responsible for overseeing the Serious Incident Investigations within Maternity and Gynaecology Services ensuring prompt reporting and investigations to be undertaken in a timely manner.
• To provide the Health care group with support and advice on quality issues, patient safety, and clinical governance and risk management to all clinical staff, Allied health professionals, nurses, support workers and medical staff
• Responsible for the dissemination of alerts (ISB/MDA/MHRA) to managers forwarding responses and actions to the trust.
• Assist the Head of Maternity Governance and Assurance with the ongoing review of the Maternity Incentive Scheme, Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle and National Reports in order to achieve the standards of the schemes.
• Assist with Legal Investigations as required

Specific Responsibilities are outlined in the attached Job description and Person Specification 

Working for our organisation

Our Organisation  

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping. 

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire. 

Our Values 

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences: 

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts 

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both 

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care 

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.