Job summaryJoin Our Inspiring Maternity Clinical Governance Team! Are you passionate about patient safety and dedicated to delivering exceptional care? We are looking for a dynamic individual to become a crucial part of our maternity clinical governance team--where your expertise can make a meaningful difference!
In this multifaceted role, you will be at the forefront of our mission to enhance the quality of care within Maternity and Neonatal Services. This position offers a unique opportunity to broaden your knowledge and skills in clinical governance and assurance.
The Division of Women and Children, including the Safe Centre, is seeking to recruit a
Clinical Governance and Risk Midwife to join the Divisional Clinical Governance Team. Your focus will be on managing safety and quality processes related to incidents, risks, related to maternity and neonatal governance agendas.
We are seeking an individual with in-depth knowledge and significant experience in clinical governance to lead the agenda within Maternity and Neonatal Services. You will collaborate closely with the Divisional Clinical Governance Maternity and Neonatal Lead, the Divisional Nursing and Midwifery Director, and clinical directors and leads within Maternity and Neonatal Teams.
This is a full-time, permanent position at Band 7.
Main duties of the jobWe are seeking an enthusiastic, self-motivated, organized, and dedicated individual to join the team and drive the governance agenda for the division, working collaboratively with the Trust's corporate governance and risk team.
You will be responsible for monitoring and triaging patient safety incidents for Maternity and Neonatal Services, coordinating the investigation and response to clinical incidents alongside the senior management team.
You will collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure that operational performance indicators are met concerning the national MBRRACE-UK/PMRT collaboration, ensuring timely notifications to relevant external bodies (e.g., NHS Resolutions Early Notification Scheme and Maternity and Neonatal Safety Investigations).
Excellent communication and negotiation skills are essential, as you will present reports and provide constructive challenge where necessary. Strong time management skills are needed to manage a busy workload, and a flexible approach is crucial to meet departmental needs.
The ability to work independently and as part of a team is key to achieving objectives in a fast-paced and constantly evolving environment. We are looking for someone who thrives in collaborative settings and is dedicated to continuous quality improvement and patient safety.
About usWe have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 2.1 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
DetailsDate posted: 01 September 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 438-PB4785
Job locations: Royal Preston Hospital, Sharoe Green Unit, Sharoe Green Lane, Preston, PR9 9HT
Job responsibilities- Coordinating the delivery of the Trust Risk Management Strategy across the Division - maintaining compliance with clinical governance and patient safety standards.
- Coordinating and completing investigations into incident reports, managing investigation processes, and report collation in collaboration with clinical teams.
- Coordinating and supporting the leadership of the clinical governance agenda and line management of the clinical governance and risk facilitation team.
- Collating and approving Specialty and Divisional assurance reports and action plans.
- Supporting clinical governance risk monthly dashboard compliance and responding to reduced compliance.
- Coordinating and disseminating learning from incidents, risk assessments, complaints, and claims, ensuring actions are followed up and robustly completed with audit assurance.
Person SpecificationEssential- Registered Midwife
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent experience relating to the role
- Relevant experience in an acute hospital setting
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable- Completion of a leadership and development programme equivalent to Band 6 Programme; or Level 4 ILM (Institute of Leadership and Management)
- Teaching / Assessing Qualification
- Qualification in Risk Management or equivalent experience
Knowledge & ExperienceEssential- Experience and success in supporting and delivering the clinical governance agenda including experience in risk management.
- Experience of undertaking risk assessments
- Experience of completing investigations and understanding of PSIRF application to learning from incidents.
- Knowledge and experience in action plan progression
- Experience of management and leadership within healthcare
- Significant post midwifery registration experience
- An awareness, knowledge and experience of Clinical Governance and Risk Management
- Knowledge of Databases, MS Word and Excel
- Experience in writing reports
- Experience in working with incident reporting systems
- Experience of training and educating staff
- Experience of undertaking risk assessments and contributing to the local risk register
- Experience in dealing with sensitive situations with tact, diplomacy and professionalism
- Experience in working with a broad range of staff
Desirable- Experience and knowledge of the 'Perinatal Mortality Review Tool' (PMRT) collaboration led by MBRRACE
- Knowledge and experience of the Clinical Negligence Scheme (CNST)
- Ability to analyse clinical issues/problems, identify necessary action and make recommendations and follow these through
- Datix experience
- Experience of organising meetings and taking minute/notes
- Demonstrate an understanding of the role CQC
Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of SponsorshipApplications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website. 
