Are you interested in improving clinical services birthing people and their families? The maternity clinical governance team at Guys and St Thomas’ hospital is looking for a dynamic patient safety manager with a clinical or non-clinical background to join the team.
The successful applicant will work closely with the Lead midwife for Governance, Quality and Risk to manage clinical audit, service user complaints and clinical guidelines. They will also support the risk midwives with patient safety investigations, circulating learning from investigations and quality improvement projects.
Closing Date: 20th August 2025
Interview Date: 09th September 2025
Coordinate audits in collaboration with the senior midwifery team and Women’s Audit Lead to provide assurance that the maternity service is achieving and working towards continual improvements in clinical practice.
Coordinate maternity guidelines process; to ensure effective processes are in place for tracking, updating and implementing all relevant clinical guidelines; including dissemination and appropriate information sharing with the wider multi-disciplinary team.
Support the senior maternity team in the coordination of the maternity complaints process.
To provide leadership, quality improvement and audit management specialist advice and support to staff and students within maternity services.
Work clinically to maintain clinical practice skills and integrity, including as part of unit escalation during peaks in clinical acuity.
Support and encourage open communication about incidents, near misses and safety concerns within maternity services and a culture of learning and improvement.
To be fully informed of the risk management strategy and be responsible for reporting incidents, risk assessment and development of action plans to reduce risk.
Maintain and develop professional knowledge and competence in accordance within the NMC recommendations if holding a clinical registration
Identify areas of practice, which require further investigation and initiate and participate in both midwifery and medical research and quality improvement audit programmes.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with along history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lucy Oliver Job title: Lead midwife for Quality Governance and Risk Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 020718886858
Linda Napolitano- Lead midwife for Quality Governance and Risk
[email protected]
