Maternity Governance Lead

Are you a passionate and experienced midwifery leader with a strong commitment to patient safety, clinical governance, quality and continuous improvement?

We would love you to join our Senior Midwifery Leadership Team as Maternity Governance Matron, Band 8a.

This is a pivotal senior leadership role, providing professional leadership and oversight of maternity governance, quality, risk and patient safety. You will play a key role in ensuring that robust systems of assurance are embedded across maternity services and that learning leads to demonstrable and sustainable improvement in the safety, quality and experience of care.

As Maternity Governance Matron, you will hold significant senior responsibility for quality and safety, clinical governance, professional standards, complaints and learning, regulatory compliance and service improvement. Bringing these responsibilities together through a strong, visible and compassionate approach to governance leadership.

Working collaboratively across the organisation and with system partners, you will also work closely with colleagues on the Isle of Wight through established collaborative arrangements, supporting cross-site learning, alignment and shared improvement.

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust., he health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.