Job overview

The Maternity & Gynaecology Clinical Quality, Risk and Safety (QRS) Midwife, is a band 6 role which will support the Maternity and Gynaecology care units in all quality governance activities. 

The successful candidate will receive comprehensive support and development opportunities from the established Quality, Risk and Safety team, including access to relevant training packages.

Main duties of the job

• Join our dynamic Quality, Risk and Safety team within Chesterfield Maternity and Gynaecology, where you'll play a pivotal role in supporting complaint and incident reviews, ensuring the highest standards of patient care.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary reviews of incidents, working alongside passionate colleagues from across the Trust. You'll be actively involved in driving forward quality governance initiatives, making a tangible difference within our care units.
• Take ownership of ensuring actions from incident and complaint investigations are completed. You'll conduct insightful trend analysis using intelligence from internal and external sources, and champion the spread of learning across maternity and the wider Trust.
• Contribute directly to clinical excellence by coordinating guideline development and performing gap analysis against national standards. Your input will help us continually improve our practices and patient outcomes.

Working for our organisation

At Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, you'll be part of a dedicated and high-performing team committed to exceptional patient care. We offer comprehensive support, training and development opportunities, ensuring you can thrive both personally and professionally. If you are ready to make a meaningful impact and advance your career in clinical quality, risk and safety, we want to hear from you! 

Our vision: Exceptional patient care delivered by exceptional people.

Our mission: To unite our people, communities and partners in providing patient care we are proud of. Every team member contributes to this mission by upholding the values we promise to our patients and to each other. Staff are guided by our Proud to CARE values.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a high-performing Foundation Trust serving approximately 441,000 people across Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and Northeast Derbyshire districts. The Trust employs around 3,800 staff, maintains sound financial management with a positive surplus, and was recently rated “Good” by the CQC.

We are dedicated to collaborating with partners in health and social care to achieve long-term financial sustainability, resilience and continued delivery of high-quality services and excellent patient care.

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

COVID19 Vaccination

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

 UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.  Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route.  Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form.  Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.  Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be  eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications 

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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