Divisional Governance Lead Maternity and Neonatal

Are you passionate about improving quality and safety in midwifery? We are looking for an exceptional midwife with a proven track record working within a safety and quality portfolio who can provide clinical oversight and leadership as the divisional governance lead for maternity and neonatal You will lead on the coordination of serious incidents, complaints, and audit, ensuring learning is embedded into practice and aligned with national priorities including Ockenden, National reports, the NHS Patient Safety Strategy, and Maternity Incentive Scheme and MBRRACE UK. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams and system partners, you will be responsible for oversight of governance frameworks, support assurance processes, and promote a culture of safety and continuous improvement., This is a highly visible and influential leadership role that provides strategic and operational governance support across the Division with a focus on Maternity and Neonatal services. The Divisional Governance Lead will act as a key driver for patient safety, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance, ensuring that governance systems are robust, responsive, and aligned with national standards and Trust policy. The purpose of the role is to provide strategic leadership and oversight of the divisional governance agenda in relation to the Maternity and Neonatal portfolio, ensuring compliance with Trust policies, national standards, and NHS frameworks. Manage the Maternity and Neonatal governance team; drive patient safety, learning, and ensure that improvement actions are undertaken and that assurance of actions being embedded are evident through audit assurance processes; and enable high-quality care through effective incident response, risk management, compliance, and culture. The postholder will oversee incident profiles and serious incidents, providing escalation and thematic reviews to the Divisional Management Team and ensuring lessons learned are embedded into practice. They will lead divisional learning responses relating to Maternity and Neonatal services under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), ensuring investigations are robust and outcomes shared to improve care delivery.

We are looking for a highly motivated midwife with existing strong governance experience, excellent analytical skills, and a proven ability to lead a team, influence practice and deliver change at pace. This multifaceted role demands exceptional leadership, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to work across multidisciplinary teams and deliver assurance at the highest level. The postholder will champion governance excellence, foster collaboration, and ensure that systems and processes underpin the delivery of safe, effective, and harm-free care.

Our mission is to provide excellent care with compassion. We have three equally important strategic aims - to provide outstanding healthcare to our local communities, to offer a range of high quality specialised services to patients in Lancashire and South Cumbria, and to drive innovation through world-class education, training and research. We are constantly striving to improve, and working towards becoming an outstanding, high performing organisation. Our values define who we are and how we behave.

• Caring and compassionate.We treat everyone with dignity and respect,doing everything we can to show we care.
• Recognising individuality.We respect, value and respond to every person'sindividual needs.
• Seeking to involve.We will always involve you in making decisionsabout your care and treatment, and are alwaysopen and honest.
• Team working.We work together as one team, and involvepatients, families, and other services,to provide the best care possible.
• Taking personal responsibility.We each take personal responsibility to give thehighest standards of care and deliver a servicewe can always be proud of.