Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AFC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-S3-SE1968
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any NHSE South East Region or Reading Office
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £70,417 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Regional Maternity Quality Improvement Lead
NHS AFC: Band 8c
Job overview
Regional Maternity Quality Lead
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the South East Region Maternity and Neonatal Team as Regional Maternity Quality Lead. We are looking for a senior, credible, knowledgeable, dynamic, and innovative midwife with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to support the Regional Chief Midwife in building and sustaining safe, high quality maternity care across the South East.
The post holder will be a key component of the maternity leadership team focussing on the improvement of safety and quality of maternity care across the South East.
Key aspects of this role will be to support implementation, delivery, and compliance with the NHSR Maternity Incentive Scheme, the Three-Year Single Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services and the Long-Term Plan for trusts and LMNSs in the region. The post holder will possess expert clinical knowledge, senior experience, and authority in order to influence Directors and Heads of Midwifery, Lead Obstetricians and Trust/LMNS Board members.
You will be joining an innovative, determined, compassionate and dedicated team, working together to improve maternity and neonatal care and outcomes for patients and staff across the South East region.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide senior specialist midwifery direction and will lead on activities in relation to their specific portfolio - which will include patient safety, assurance, quality improvement, digital improvement, and the use of data to improve safety. The role will play a crucial role in providing clinical advice and support to both providers of maternity services and Local Maternity and Neonatal System Leads within the Integrated Care Boards.
Working for our organisation
In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ .
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Person specification
Essential Criteria
Essential criteria
- Professional ‘live’ Midwifery Registration.
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time in the following areas – quality improvement, clinical / and or system transformation and assurance. Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to maternity quality improvement, clinical/ and or system transformation and assurance.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Demonstrable senior management experience.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals.
- Demonstrate sound understanding of approaches to both QI methodology’s and application to practice ensuring local ownership.
- Act as a positive role model in clinical practice working both with and alongside local organisational and system leaders.
- Provide clinical leadership and advice on maternity quality (safety, outcomes and experience), guidance and support to other directorates and leads working across the geographical footprint.
- Forge strong opportunities for collaborative working, collective leadership and integration with local systems.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kaye Wilson
- Job title
- Regional Chief Midwife
- Email address
- [email protected]
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