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SalaryThe post holder will have a key leadership role within the fetal surveillance team and will provide specialist skills and knowledge to support the division’s quality and safety agenda. The post holder will support the Matron for Fetal Surveillance to enhance and develop high standards of care through education, patient safety incident response management, risk management and continuous quality improvement. The post holder will be an advocate for women and their families in accordance with the philosophy and standards of care within Saint Mary’s Hospital Managed Clinical Service ensuring that Trust values and beliefs are upheld. Key work will focus upon leading the PreTerm Birth service across the MCS, including the provision of expert clinical care. In addition, the post holder will be responsible for maintaining and monitoring Element 5 of the implementation of Saving Babies Lives (SBL) care bundle across the trust and contributing to the reduction of premature birth and stillbirth. Two posts are available; one with a primary workbase at North Manchester General Hospital ( 15 hours) one post with a primary workbase at Oxford Road Campus (ORC) (30 hours).
The post holder will:
Support the Matron for Fetal Surveillance to improve patient safety by promoting safe practice and robust patient safety systems with a particular focus on public health & stillbirth prevention.
Lead Preterm Birth and perinatal optimisation education and improvements in practice to support high quality, safe care provided by a highly competent workforce.
Be a member of the multi-disciplinary team to advance and enhance practice within the division
Work in partnership with service users, the multidisciplinary teams and local stakeholders to improve and protect the health & wellbeing of families
Support the MFT investigation process; including reviewing clinical incidents, providing feedback to staff, developing local actions to improve care.
Take a leading role in auditing practice, analysis of results and preparing reports for presentation with a specific focus on PreTerm Birth prevention and perinatal optimisation
Support quality improvement initiatives and the MFT Improving Quality Programme (IQP); including identifying areas for improvement / themes arising from clinical incidents
Support the process for developing and updating clinical guidelines
Provide expert clinical care to women and their families
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Jan 2024
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