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Job description

This is a role focused on overseeing clinical governance, risk management, and patient safety processes. Key duties include, monitoring standards, managing patient safety incidents, promoting a just culture for learning from events, and ensuring care is evidence-based and compliant with regional and national guidelines. The post holder will be responsible for co-ordinating the clinical risk review system including all aspects of management of the Datix reporting system. The post holder will have a supporting role for the management of quality and governance for Maternity and Neonatal Services in conjunction with the Service Manager, Assistant Service Managers and Collective Leadership Team (CLT). Please visit jobs.hscni.net to see Job Description and Personnel Specification.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the information and clinical and social care governance reporting systems for the Maternity and Neonatal services.
• Monitor and triage of patient safety incidents submitted to Datix for Maternity and Neonatal Services.
• Assign patient safety incidents submitted to Datix to relevant clinical and operational leads within Maternity and Neonatal Services.
• Ensure relevant data fields have been completed accurately, reflect the patient safety event and harm validation is consistent to support wider reporting.
• Engage with ward managers regarding the review of patient safety incidents submitted to Datix to ensure timely reviews and consistency in harm validation.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• Have a Midwifery Degree and 3 years post-registration experience, within a midwifery setting, as a Band 6 midwife on the Nursing and Midwifery (NMC) register Or
• Have 2 years post-registration experience within a midwifery setting, as a Band 6 midwife on the NMC register, and have obtained a postgraduate diploma or equivalent qualification. Or
• Have 5 years post-registration experience, which must include a minimum of 3 years as a Band 6 midwife on the NMC register, within a midwifery setting.
• Hold a current full driving licence valid in UK with access to a car on appointment. ‘This criteria will be waived in the case of an applicant whose disability prohibits driving but who is able to organise suitable alternative arrangements.

Desirable Skills

• Experience of conducting and managing audit or research projects.
• Training in quality improvement methodology.

Further Information

Location: Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital, Belfast.