Role Description

The post holder will provide senior midwifery leadership and specialist support to Maternity Services in the coordination, implementation, monitoring, and delivery of national and local maternity safety, quality, and governance standards. The post holder will have specific responsibility for leading the Trust’s maternity assurance against the NHS Resolution Maternity Incentive Scheme and the Ockenden recommendations, ensuring that requirements are effectively embedded within maternity practice and that robust evidence is maintained to demonstrate compliance and assurance.

• Key Responsibilities:
  • Work closely with the Obstetric Clinical Governance Lead, Director of Midwifery, Women’s and Children’s Risk Manager, Group Clinical Director, Senior Midwifery Team, and wider multidisciplinary colleagues to provide effective oversight of maternity safety, quality, and governance requirements.
  • Support the identification of gaps in compliance, develop and monitor improvement plans, and provide timely escalation where progress or assurance is insufficient.
  • Lead on the coordination and monitoring of MIS and Ockenden requirements, ensuring that evidence is accurately collated, quality assured, and maintained in preparation for internal and external assurance processes.
  • Provide specialist oversight and assurance across key areas of maternity quality and safety, including the clinical accuracy and timely review of guidelines, policies, and patient information leaflets, clinical audit programs, quality improvement (QI) projects, risk management, and learning from incidents, complaints, claims, and external reviews.
  • Support teams to translate learning into sustainable improvements in clinical practice and monitor the effectiveness of actions taken.
  • Contribute to the development of a strong culture of continuous learning, improvement, transparency, and accountability across perinatal services. Support the dissemination and embedding of learning from MIS, Ockenden, national maternity reviews, incidents, audits, complaints, and quality improvement activity, ensuring that learning is shared across the multidisciplinary workforce and translated into measurable improvements in care.