We are looking for a motivated and organised Band 6 Midwife to join our maternity Quality and Safety team, supporting the delivery of patient safety, governance, and perinatal mortality review processes across York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an excellent opportunity for a registered midwife with an interest in governance, learning from incidents, quality improvement, and improving outcomes for women, birthing people, babies, and families. Working under the direction of the Governance, Quality and Patient Safety Lead, you will support incident monitoring, PMRT processes, The ATAIN programme, audit activity, data collation, reporting, and the dissemination of learning across the multidisciplinary team.
The post holder will play an important role in supporting timely, accurate, and compassionate review processes, helping to identify themes, monitor actions, and contribute to improvements in maternity care. You will work closely with clinical, governance, bereavement, and multidisciplinary colleagues, maintaining high standards of professionalism, confidentiality, and communication at all times.
We are seeking someone who is detail-focused, compassionate, confident with data and documentation, and able to communicate sensitively in complex situations. You will be supported to develop your knowledge of governance, PMRT and ATAIN, audit, quality improvement, and national maternity safety requirements while contributing to a positive culture of learning and improvement.
Main Duties Will Include
- Supporting PMRT coordination, data entry, case review preparation, and reporting requirements.
- Assisting with incident monitoring, escalation, Duty of Candour processes, and governance documentation.
- Supporting audit, data validation, action tracking, and identification of themes and learning.
- Contributing to quality improvement activity and dissemination of learning across maternity services.
- Working collaboratively with clinical and governance colleagues to support safer, high-quality care.
Applicants must hold current NMC registration as a Registered Midwife and have experience working within maternity services. Experience of governance, audit, PMRT, incident review, or quality improvement processes would be an advantage, although support and development will be provided.
If you are committed to improving maternity safety, supporting learning, and working as part of a compassionate and inclusive team, we would welcome your application.
To find out more about what it is like to work for our Trust please visit the following link:
https://yorkhospitals.pagetiger.com/hdjgxd
Our benefits
We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:
- Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
- 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)
- A generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully. If you would like to discuss a potential relocation package, please speak to the recruiting department/manager.
- A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave
- Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
- NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
- An extensive range of learning and development opportunities
- Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers
For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Gallagher Job title: Quality & Governance Lead Email address:
[email protected]