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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POST IS OPEN TO EXISTING NHS FORTH VALLEY EMPLOYEES ONLY
NHS Forth Valley Women & Children’s Directorate – committed to deliver quality care and maximise the potential of our staff.
This is an exciting time to join our team. Due to planned restructure, the Women & Children’s Directorate are seeking a highly committed candidate, with excellent communication skills, to promote and act as an advocate for best practice in clinical governance and risk management. It is anticipated the post holder will further enhance the positive risk/governance culture within the Women and Children’s Directorate to ensure that the identification and management of clinical and non clinical risks is viewed positively as a means of safeguarding our client groups and staff and improving the Directorate’s organisational effectiveness.
The much-expanded Women & Children’s Directorate benefits from its diversity providing services for women, children and young people within the home, community, and acute hospital settings. The successful candidate will have a key role facilitating, and providing practical assistance, guidance, and advice to all staff within the Women, Children’s and Sexual Health Directorate regarding Governance and Risk agenda.
This successful candidate will work closely with the senior managers/professional leaders, as well as liaising with patients and carers to continuously improve systems, structures, and processes of care delivery in accordance with national and local priorities.
The postholder will participate and support the co-ordination of Badgernet within maternity services and wider organisation as appropriate. The post holder will be expected to support the maternity workforce to deliver quality care to women and families through the effective use of a maternity IT system, representing the Directorate locally and nationally within the digital platform.
For essential requirements please see the job description.
Interviews will take place on the 2nd September 2022
Informal enquiries to:
Helena Marshal, Service Manager/Senior Midwife, Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Sexual Health
Helena.marshall@nhs.scot Tel: 01324 567663
Alison McBride, Department Manager/Head of Midwifery
Alison.mcbride@nhs.scot Tel 01324 67480
The duties of this post require the successful candidate to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. More information on this scheme can be found at www.disclosurescotland.co.uk
Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail, therefore please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders) and also your Jobtrain account for updates.
NHS Forth Valley is positive about disabled people and is committed to offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. Please contact the Recruitment Office on 0330 041 4694 if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to assist you with your application and/or interview.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.