Job summary
- Main area
- Nurse/Midwife
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 230-32936735-SURG-WCS-AA
- Employer
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- George Eliot Hospital
- Town
- Nuneaton
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Risk Governance and Audit Midwife
Band 7
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.
The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
Our vision is "to EXCEL at patient care". If you think you've got what it takes, help us realise this and join #TeamEliot.
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Job overview
Job Title: Clinical Risk Governance and Audit Midwife
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
Please note if you commence in post prior to October 2024, you will be paid in line with 2023/2024 agenda for change pay scales.
Closing Date: 20th September 2024
Interview Date: 4th October 2024
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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Main duties of the job
This exciting opportunity would be perfect for an enthusiastic midwife/nurse, who will work alongside our clinicians, managers and service users to ensure there is a robust approach to monitoring and improving patient safety, clinical effectiveness, patient experience, and risk.
The role involves leading the day-to-day governance activity, which includes; guideline development, clinical audit, review of clinical incidents, alongside clinicians to help identify lessons learnt.
The Directorate Governance team has undergone significant investment to support the Trust in achieving national requirements in Perinatal, Gynaecology and Paediatric outpatient services.
There will be significant peer support available within the team for the successful candidate.
Working for our organisation
Here at George Eliot our vision to ‘excel at patient care’ takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The right candidate will need to be able to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a driving passion for Clinical Governance and determination to improve quality and safety across our services.
You will need to have good clinical knowledge in midwifery/nursing practice and will have demonstrable clinical experience.
In this role you will support Risk and Governance Manager in all aspects of clinical governance.
You will need to be self-motivated, clinically sound, approachable and well organised. In this key role you will work closely with the multi- disciplinary team.
The successful candidate will receive a comprehensive induction programme and an opportunity to further develop their knowledge and skills in Governance and Risk Management whilst working in a supportive and compassionate environment.
Person specification
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Maturity and self-awareness
- Creative, lateral thinker
- Have a confident approach and the ability to instil confidence in others
- Enthusiastic, motivated and able to motivate others
- Calm and objective
- Flexible and positive approach to work
- Ability to work across a number of clinical areas
- Be able to encourage and support staff in difficult circumstances
Experience & knowledge
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 3 years clinical post registration experience in Nursing/Midwifery
- Knowledge of clinical governance
- Experience of clinical audit
- Experience of guideline development
- Relevant clinical experience in acute hospital.
- Evidence of implementing change in clinical practice
- Experience in audit and implementing evidence based care
- Ability to assess the work of the team, provide clear constructive feedback to the team in order to maintain and improve performance
- A good understanding of current issues relating to the NHS.
- Ability to delegate authority to people and monitor them against required outcomes
Qualification and professional training
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse/Midwife with current NMC registration
- Demonstrable CPD
Desirable criteria
- Study at Masters level
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Effective leadership skills and ability to critically analyse data
- Ability to analyses problems and implements appropriate solutions
- Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Evidence of excellent documentation and written skills
- Ability to manage difficult situations effectively
- Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines, and good time management
- Ability to work alone and as a member of a team
- Ability to analyses problems and implements appropriate solutions
- Strong IT skills of MS Word, Office and Excel to produce a report for presentation to clinical teams
Other
Essential criteria
- Able to recognise own limits and work within those limits of competence
- Ability to treat everyone with whom s/he comes into contact with dignity and respect
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Becci Mcdermott
- Job title
- Women's and Children's Risk and Governance Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07385424708
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