Midwifery Patient Safety Co-Lead

What you'll be doing
As the Midwifery Patient Safety Clinical Lead, you’ll play a pivotal role in strengthening the safety and quality culture across maternity services in WSLHD. Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and championing clinical governance principles, building capacity and empowering clinicians and managers to improve systems and outcomes.
• Shaping policy and procedure development, ensuring alignment with evidence-based best practice and NSW Health standards.
• Driving patient safety initiatives, using data analysis, risk identification and performance monitoring to inform decisions and support clinical excellence.
• Collaborating strategically with internal and external stakeholders including NSW Health, education bodies, and other maternity networks to promote consistent and high-quality care.
• Supporting and coaching staff through change management, audit processes, and continuous improvement efforts, helping to embed a culture of reflection, transparency and proactive safety.

• Be part of a values-driven organisation committed to equity, quality and collaboration.
• Contribute to system-level change and high-impact safety improvements.
• Thrive in a supportive and forward-thinking leadership team.
• Enjoy opportunities for ongoing professional development and strategic project work.

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  Registration: Midwife - Registration with the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia as a Registered Midwife.

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  Extensive clinical and management experience in the maternity environment or possess post graduate qualifications at masters level in specialisation or equivalent work experience.
• Demonstrated experience in quality, safety and clinical risk management within a complex/acute maternity environment, including the application and evaluation of patient safety programs, clinical risk identification, and improvement methodologies.
• Demonstrated knowledge of clinical systems and health services, including understanding of human and other factors impacting on patient safety.
• Demonstrated high level interpersonal, communication, negotiation, influencing and motivational skills that support personal capacity to build and maintain effective and collaborative relationships with a range of multidisciplinary stakeholders including senior managers and clinical staff.
• High level verbal and written communication skills including the ability to analyse and synthesise data and use it to drive improvement through the production of briefs, presentations, business plans and reports.
• Well-developed organisational and project management skills including the capacity to successfully complete several tasks concurrently and achieve set deadlines.
• Demonstrated leadership, coaching, mentoring and training skills to support a range of change management initiatives.
• Evidence of a current class C driver's licence and ability and willingness to travel for work purposes.

• Discover more about the application process.
• Review the detailed Position Description for insights into role requirements and criteria.
• Explore the selection process, employment checks, outcomes and notifications.
• For inquiries about the role, contact Michelle Underwood on Michelle.Underwood@health.nsw.gov.au / 0409 708 130.