Lewisham and Greenwich Trust provides hospital and community services for more than 526,000 people across south east London. We put patients at the heart of everything we do, which is reflected in the positive feedback we receive. We are a friendly and dynamic place to work, with high levels of job satisfaction and excellent transport links serving our two hospitals - University Hospital Lewisham and Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Greenwich.
We are seeking dedicated, motivated people to help us provide high quality care to our local communities. In return for your hard work, we offer well-established, structured mentoring and staff development packages to support you in your role. An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 Patient Safety Midwives,1 at UHL and 1 at QEW.
Do you have at least 3 years band 6 experience? Are you interested in patient safety, risk management and promoting a positive culture of learning, If so, then this is the post for you. This Role will enable to you to develop professionally by gaining experience and insight into risk management policies and processes and learning how to evaluate and grade clinical incidents, ensure incidents are reviewed in a timely manner and participate in management activities.
You will be responsible for reviewing clinical and non-clinical incidents within maternity which have been submitted via the Trust's incident reporting system; appraising the incidents, identifying and investigating issues, themes or trends that may arise and developing action plans if required. Other aspects of the role include compiling reports for Directorate meetings, supporting the Clinical Governance Lead in maintaining action logs and the risk register, representing the maternity patient safety team as required and partaking in audit and guideline development. The role requires a reasonable amount of previous clinical experience, IT skills, ability to communicate to members of the team and basic report writing skills.
Please be aware you will need to prepare a 10 minute presentation on ' How does Human factors impact on patient safety' and present this as part of your interview if you are shortlisted. Please note that the as part of the application process for non-medical roles, you will need to complete a short values based pre-application question. Your responses to the question will impact on whether or not you are able to successfully continue with your application.
Please have a look on our website to find out more information before you start the pre-application question. If you are unsuccessful with the pre-application question, it means that you are not in harmony with our values. We thank you for your interest in Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions
Order) 1975 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. Documents to download
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