Matron, Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and compassionate leader to join our Maternity Services as Matron for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). This is a pivotal role that will drive our commitment to reducing health inequalities, improving outcomes for women, babies and families, and creating a truly inclusive culture for both those who use our services and our workforce. Working across County Durham and Darlington, you will lead the delivery of local, regional and national priorities to address inequalities in maternity care, ensuring that every woman, baby and family receives safe, personalised and equitable care. You will champion initiatives that improve outcomes for those most at risk of health inequalities, including families experiencing deprivation, complex social circumstances and those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, recognising the evidence of persistent disparities in maternal and neonatal outcomes. As a senior clinical leader, you
will work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and partner organisations to deliver innovative programmes that support prevention, personalised care, population health management and continuous quality improvement. You will play a key role in driving service transformation, using data and intelligence to identify inequalities, develop targeted interventions and ensure maternity services continue to meet the ambitions set out in national maternity strategies and quality standards.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for all aspects of work to promote quality, safety improvement and governance.

To lead and coordinate the divisions response to Patient Safety Incidents, serious incidents and investigation.

The role will involve having to impart unwelcome news to both stakeholders, patients and their families, where standards of care have not been met and where harm has been caused.

Under the direction of the Director of Midwifery and Associate Director of Nursing monitor the Care Group approach to implementing Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) setting out the NHSs approach to developing and maintaining effective systems and processes for responding to patient safety incidents for the purpose of learning and improving patient safety, within the service and organisation. Direct the development and implementation of action plans to drive continuous improvement.

Supporting coordination of the Care Group Risk Register and dissemination of the Risk Register to the Divisional teams, working alongside the Divisional Leadership teams

To provide analysis and interpretation of clinical risk management information for comparison and provide reports and remedial plans to the Care Group clinical/quality governance groups and other operational and executive committees of the Trust, as required to support the Director of Midwifery and the Associate Director of Nursing, Quality Governance and the Care Group Leadership Team.

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We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

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