Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife to join our established team as the Patient Safety Midwife (with lead for patient experience).
This is a key role ensuring that the voice of women, birthing people and their families are central to the delivery of any changes within the maternity services to truly ensure that we are meeting the needs of our local community.
You will work collaboratively with other patient safety and risk management leads within the Women and Children's Division and Trust wide to promote a culture of safety and learning from experience and promote best practice.
This is part time role-15 hours per week.
Main duties of the job

• To prepare reports and seek input from families and lead PMRT(perinatal mortality review tool) within the Trust
• To act as lead link between Maternity and Neonatal Voice Partnerships, organising, attending and participating in meetings, embedding relationships with the MNVP as key stakeholders to service improvement;
• To act as a conduit with the Maternity Neonatal Independent Senior Advocate
• To work collaboratively with leadership team to identify learning needs and provide learning opportunities to facilitate change and performance improvement from patient and staff feedback;
• To inspire and lead others to design and deliver the best experience to patients;
• To understand and establish the most effective feedback mechanism for patient experience, generating meaningful actions to improve the care received by families;
• Understand the requirement and wishes of women, birthing people and their families regarding their expectations, the information they wish to receive and the services provided;

About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
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Details
Date posted
09 July 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
46,148 to 52,809 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
432-HR457-25
Job locations
Colchester Hospital
Turner Road
Colchester
CO4 5JL
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Midwife with Current NMC Registration
• Teaching & Assessing Qualification
• Evidence of recent study in a relevant subject at master's level/post graduate qualification

Desirable

• Management Qualification or equivalent

Experience
Essential

• Experience of a senior clinical/ managerial position
• Experience of leading a team
• Managing conflict
• Experience of research/audit and bench marking
• Management of clinical incidents & complaints
• Experience in the management of human and financial resources

Desirable

• Experience in identifying education & training needs of staff

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Midwife with Current NMC Registration
• Teaching & Assessing Qualification
• Evidence of recent study in a relevant subject at master's level/post graduate qualification

Desirable

• Management Qualification or equivalent

Experience
Essential

• Experience of a senior clinical/ managerial position
• Experience of leading a team
• Managing conflict
• Experience of research/audit and bench marking
• Management of clinical incidents & complaints
• Experience in the management of human and financial resources

Desirable

• Experience in identifying education & training needs of staff