Are you a dynamic and forward-thinking midwife with a passion for driving safe, high-quality maternity and neonatal services? Do you thrive in a culture of continuous learning and collaborative improvement? This is an exciting opportunity to take on a pivotal leadership role where your expertise and values will directly shape safer, more responsive care for women, birthing people, babies, and families.
As Patient Safety Lead for Maternity and Neonatal Services, you will be at the forefront of delivering meaningful change. Leading a dedicated team, you will be accountable for implementing and sustaining service improvements generated through patient safety learning and incident response. You will take a lead role in the continued application and embedding of the NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), ensuring it becomes a foundation for learning and improvement.
You will actively engage with families, ensuring their experiences are central to how services evolve, and you will champion opportunities for co-production, working collaboratively with service users and staff to shape meaningful and sustainable improvements. A critical part of your role will be the development of robust and transparent governance pathways that support learning, accountability, and improvement across maternity and neonatal services., + Lead the perinatal service in delivery of the Patent Safety Incident Response framework and ensure delivery on the key components of patient safety, report any variance from the plan, and recommend and implement corrective action in liaison with the Divisional Quadrumvirate.
+ Implement and monitor risk management and clinical policies to ensure their effectiveness. Review and amend local policies and procedures where required.
+ Ensure that risk registers are in use and up to date across the service and appropriately escalated to the corporate risk register as necessary.
+ . In conjunction with the Senior Perinatal team, ensure the delivery of the CQC framework and all quality assurance agendas in and across the perinatal service

Working for our organisation
This is a role for a compassionate, values-led leader who is committed to driving a strong safety culture, and who brings energy, insight, and a proactive approach to patient safety.
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:
Service We will put our patients first
Teamwork We will work together
Ambition We will aspire to provide the best service
Respect We will act with integrity, + Identify and ensure appropriate responses to recommendations from national and regional bodies are reported to relevant Governance Group and ensure that appropriate plans are made to address these, i.e. NICE, the Healthcare Commission, Department of Health, National Confidential Enquiries, Royal Colleges etc. Maintain records of responses and actions taken.
+ Work with the Matrons to ensure that quality assurance processes are in place to meet Trust wide, regional and national recommendations across relevant areas in the service.
+ Ensure that perinatal records are audited and maintained and managed within current national and local guidance.
+ Ensure there are appropriate systems in place on the reporting, management and investigation of clinical incidents, in line with The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework. Ensure that learning is shared throughout the Division/wider organisation.
+ Ensure accurate data is provided to inform the maternity dashboards both locally, regionally and nationally.
+ . Be responsible for supporting the clinical audit department, ensuring appropriate audits are undertaken as outlined in the audit programme.
+ Develop robust processes to ensure that lessons learned/recommendations from incidents and complaints are disseminated to all relevant staff in a timely manner and embedded in practice
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+ Ensure that robust and comprehensive governance arrangements exist within the service and implementing information governance requirements and compliance with Equality Schemes.
+ Oversee the timely completion of externally required reporting including Perinatal Mortality Tool, MBRRACE, Each Baby Counts, MNSI etc.
+ . Provide leadership and expert advice on Patient Safety coordinate all aspects of Governance across the maternity service, ensuring integration of the Divisional Quality objectives with that of the professional Clinical Governance objectives.
For further details please see attached Job Description
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Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications, subject to eligibility of the role for a skilled worker visa and salary requirements. Not all roles in the Trust are eligible for sponsorship.
Eligibility for this role requires:
+ Current right to work in the UK, subject to verification.
+ Qualification of the eligibility sponsorship criteria
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Current employees should be aware that this position is advertised as a Great Western Hospitals position and appointment ends any TUPE protection.
Candidates are responsible for covering the cost of their own DBS check if required: £21.50 for a Standard DBS check, recoverable from the first pay, or £49.50 for an Enhanced DBS check, divided and recoverable over the initial two pay periods. Payment for DBS checks for bank posts must be settled prior to commencement. Apprentices are exempt from DBS payment.
We are committed to supporting our staff in achieving a healthy work-life balance through flexible work arrangements. Upon joining the Trust, you have the right to request flexible working, with an unlimited number of requests allowed.
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Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system. Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.
Our 5,500 staff have 1.2m patient contacts a year, with 13,000 operations carried out in our Theatres, around 4,000 babies born, and our emergency attendances are now well over 100,000 per year. Those numbers only tell part of our story about what an exciting time it is to join Great Western Hospitals.
We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising equality, diversion, inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.
The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer; all applicants who have a disability can opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme, which means that, providing they meet the minimum essential criteria for the post, they will be offered an interview. We are also proudly accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and have signed The Armed Forces Covenant.
If we receive a high volume of applications, we may close adverts prior to the published closing date. Therefore, we advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.