An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife to join the Women’s Health Safety Team as the Risk Management Midwife at University College Hospital Foundation Trust on a fixed term basis.
The job role will involve collaborating with the Matron for Governance and Safety and wider multidisciplinary team to lead on locally and nationally identified risk management and improvement projects whilst supporting implementation of the national maternity agenda. The role will include developing a learning-based culture within women’s health services by leading on the implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) across all incident management processes and governance structures.
Your ability to identify risk, support change in clinical practice, and to maintain high standards, as well as excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential to role. Alongside knowledge and understanding of a systems based approach to patient safety and investigations.
If you feel you are a suitably experienced candidate that would excel in this role, please submit an application.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

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• UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.

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Please refer the Job description for details