Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-EOE-6425303-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Victoria House
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £58,972 - £68,525 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Quality & Improvement Manager (Maternity)
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
This post, based within the East of England Regional Maternity Team, will be integral to supporting the Regional Chief Midwife and Regional Quality Lead in driving quality improvement and safe outcomes of maternity services. Delivered through a supportive, hands-on approach - reinforcing sustainable initiatives to units on the ground in working through their challenges, whilst also continuing to support the embedding of system and regional oversight through the Regional Perinatal Quality Oversight Group.
To ensure all public, women and birthing people contact is of the highest professional standard and embed user involvement and co design within the NHS England at all levels of decision-making.
Working as part of a dynamic team engaging with colleagues, managers, senior staff and LMNS Leads across the region to support the provision of personalised, safe evidence based maternity care for all women across the East of England.
At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working, friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.
Our new operating model represents a strong shift to regional delivery supported by expert corporate teams. Local health systems are supported by our integrated regional teams who play a major leadership role in the geographies they manage.
Main duties of the job
This will include delivery of work to support:
- Support maternity services to achieve compliance with NHS Resolution Maternity Incentive Scheme (CNST) 10 safety actions
- Implementation of safety recommendations from national reports.
- Lead on quality improvement initiatives
- The East of England smoke free pregnancy project
- Address variation and quality improvement within local maternity and neonates especially within high areas of need and deprivation to ensure equality of access to maternity services across the system.
- Act as a champion for women, pregnant people and their interests and involve women, pregnant people, user representatives and Maternity & Neonatal Voice Partnerships in quality improvement projects
- Improve better outcomes for women, families, and local populations utilising evidence-based quality improvement approaches that enable both improvement and sustainability in maternity services
- Sharing of best practices and learning regionally in relation to incidents, through a variety of platforms
- Participate with planning and facilitating regional forums, webinars and shared learning events
- Support the implementation of perinatal initiatives relating to the Three year Maternity and neonatal delivery plan
· This list is not exhaustive and may include other projects
Working for our organisation
The 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
Improving quality and outcomes
· Provide leadership guidance to the wider Maternity Team
· Use knowledge of serious incident mitigation, Care Quality Commission (CQC)assessment framework and quality improvement to contribute toward improving quality of care and outcomes
· Ensure that contemporary and evidence based practice are reflected where appropriate in the priorities and work of the region
· Contribute to the review and updates of the regional Nursing/Midwifery risk register on maternity matters
· Contribute to the Identification of opportunities for shared learning resulting from incidents and complaints as required
· To work collaboratively across NHS England matrix, including integrating the National Director’s portfolio with the Domain Leads.
Enabling patient and public involvement
· To act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision-making of NHS England
· To ensure all public and patient contact with the office is of the highest professional standard.
· To embed patient and public involvement within NHS England at all levels of decision making.
Promoting equality and reducing inequalities
· To uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality.
· To create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action ensure we meet our duty to uphold and promote equality.
Partnership and cross boundary working
· To achieve engagement and leadership when working across organisational boundaries
Leadership for transformational change
· To model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes. Embedding this approach across the Directorate
Person specification
Educational
Essential criteria
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement and their association with quality improvement methodology
- Good knowledge of quality assurance processes locally, regionally and nationally Knowledge of clinical governance processes
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Member of a relevant professional body
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time in the following area(s) - Midwifery and Maternity
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to midwifery, maternity, leadership, strategy, workforce improvement, quality improvement, safety, system change
Desirable criteria
- In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time in the following area(s) - Strategy & Policy
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Martine Pringle
- Job title
- Regional Maternity Quality Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07752781603
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