Job Description

Maternity Clinical Effectiveness and Quality Improvement Facilitator, Band 6 (30 hours a week)



We are looking for a knowledgeable and motivated individual to join our Maternity Clinical Effectiveness team in the role of a Clinical Effectiveness and Quality Improvement Facilitator. This is an innovative role which involves working with clinical midwives, obstetricians, and the senior leadership team, so excellent communication and organisational skills are vital within this role.



The main purpose of this role is to support perinatal governance processes through their assurance and quality improvement (QI) activities. The post holder will use their administrative and quality improvement skills to enable and empower clinical and operational teams to lead their own quality improvement projects and programmes within their service. The post holder will track key performance indicators, providing assurance at Divisional and Trust level of compliance, or escalation of issues that arise as necessary.



The post holder will facilitate priority QI projects related to Trust objectives (e.g CQuIMs and National Audits present on the Quality Account).



The post holder will support the clinical teams with the speciality audit programme to ensure improvements are embedded and learning shared with the clinical teams.



The Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county. And with over 9,000 staff, we're one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a huge range of opportunities and benefits in a genuinely supportive working environment.



Maternity services at Gloucestershire hospitals offer a full range of services to support the women of Gloucestershire. We deliver around 6000 babies per year across our two free-standing birth units, an along-side birth unit, home births, and an Obstetric unit, offering midwives the opportunity to work in a variety of settings in our community services, birth units and Delivery Suite.



Our team is dynamic and constantly evolving to manage the demand and challenges of the service. We work closely together to ensure a friendly, positive and supportive environment whilst recognising individual development needs.



To promote and encourage a culture that is committed to continuously improving and providing high quality patient services. To provide support to perinatal services on all aspects of quality improvement To track key performance indicators to provide assurance within perinatal services and at Divisional and Trust level of compliance (or early view of arising issues where applicable). Facilitation of perinatal services QI projects and collaboratives via GSQIA and those related to service priorities/objectives and corporate requirements To support corporate Trust requirements e.g. National Audits, NICE, CQUIM.

On a regular basis to provide expert knowledge, support and assistance to all health care professionals at all levels within the service on all aspects of effective and continuous quality improvement such as (but not limited to):



Advice on QI training available Advice on improvement methodology and measurement techniques (proforma design, sample size and selection) Advice on patient confidentiality with regards to contents of spreadsheets and reports Empower, influence and assist with change as a result of quality improvement work undertaken including the development of improvement plans Extraction and recording of data from relevant sources e.g. health records, computer sources Extraction, analysis, interpretation, understanding and manipulation of large volumes of complicated and possibly sensitive/contentious data and presentation of findings in an understandable and suitable manner. Generation of presentations and information for dissemination Advice on data protection, confidentiality and ethical issues Differences, and the significance, between Research/Audit/survey and the knowledge to direct clinicians accordingly Project design and management e.g. time scales, appropriateness of work Mentor, support, encourage and advise more junior members of staff e.g. Participate in the development and implementation of individual induction programme Review and monitoring of development plans Be an extensive pool of expert knowledge Accompany as required The post holder communicates and has working relationships with Trust members of staff at all levels within the organisation, both clinical and non-clinical. This requires persuasive skills where agreement and co-operation are essential. Divisional Quadrumvirate Consultants, service directors and other medical staff Specialty QI leads Perinatal Quality and Safety team Maternity Matrons Divisional Risk and Health and Safety managers Trust Safety Improvement manager Research and Development Support Unit, Data protection Officer and Caldicott Guardian, Medical statistician Departmental managers Senior midwives, Allied Health professionals and their staff Health records staff

Communication of results through clear and concise reports ensuring that information is understandable and at an appropriate level