Sands Midwifery Fellow
Each Baby Counts programme
£38,102 - £45,539 (dependent on experience) –
Equivalent to agenda for Change Band 7 (RCOG Grade 6)
Fixed-term: three years
An opportunity has arisen for a Midwifery Fellow to join the Each Baby Counts team. This is a new post that has been funded by Sands for a fixed period of three years.
You will be responsible for working with the Each Baby Counts (EBC) team as well as trusts/health boards and parents to review the quality of serious incident reports submitted to the EBC database and advise the team on action required to make improvements. Through investigations of serious incidents leading to the identification of themes to develop solutions will prevent these incidents from recurring.
The successful candidate will be a senior midwife with risk management and/or quality improvement expertise. Experience of undertaking serious incident reviews is essential. You will also have experience of working with bereaved families and families of babies harmed during birth. Report writing skills is essential for this role as well as the ability to prepare briefings and make presentations to a wide variety of audiences.
The College is dedicated to raising standards of training and education in the medical specialty of obstetrics and gynaecology, delivered through the work of its members. Located in pleasant offices overlooking Regent’s Park, the College offers a friendly working environment with an excellent benefits package that includes flexible working hours, free lunches, subsidised gym membership, season ticket loan, first class pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement.
Please go to our website by clicking apply. For further details and to apply please return your completed application form to jobs@rcog.org.uk. If you have further questions you can contact the HR Department on 020 7772 6453.
The closing date for applications is 20 November 2017 at 10.00am. Late applications will NOT be accepted. Interviews tentatively arranged for Wednesday 29 November 2017.
The College is an equal opportunities employer
