Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-MID-6802513-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Flexible across the Midlands
- Town
- Leicestershire/Nottinghamshire/West Midlands
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Midwifery Quality and Professional Development Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8c
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
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly organized, highly skilled individual with a strong experience in maternity and clinical maternity Quality and Professional Development. The successful postholder will support the strategic and operational development of the regional quality strategy and perinatal Improvement plans, specifically in relation to the Single Delivery Plan, Ockenden recommendations, in addition to other associated national policies.
The post is one of three and whilst each post will have a specific portfolio, this may include some aspects relating to workforce, digital maturity, enhanced continuity of carer, personalisation, and research, the role will also be responsible for:
- supporting professional and clinical leadership across the region
- providing guidance and support on patient safety, regulatory matters, clinical governance and quality improvement as related to the published maternity and neonatal reviews, and subsequent recommendations
Main duties of the job
The postholder will:
- support the Regional Chief Midwife and Deputy Chief Midwife to establish effective systems and processes to ensure compliance with Ockenden (and other maternity reviews) across the region, systems and provider trusts.
- lead the provision of an efficient, effective and high quality professional and well-co-ordinated support service enabling trusts and systems in meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements.
- continue to develop and lead a regional professional midwifery advocate networks
The post is part of a wider team covering the Midlands, with a complex work programme to support the improvement of perinatal services across the region.
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.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Work with regional and ICB colleagues to implement national recommendations and plans.
- Ensure that organisations are compliant with statutory regulations, and professional standards.
- Advise on professional matters relating to patient safety, clinical governance and quality improvement.
- Support challenged organisations and systems in matters relating to patient safety, clinical governance and quality improvement.
- Work with the workforce team
- ensure information is properly managed and best practice is widely.
- Develop and lead a regional PMA network.
- Continue the implementation of the Perinatal Quality Surveillance Model
- Oversee perinatal PSIRF and serious incident reporting ensuring learning and best practice is shared across the region
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered midwife with extensive experience, current registration with NMC
- Educated to master’s level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Desirable criteria
- Project management qualification or experience
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience at senior manager level in a healthcare environment
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to patient safety, clinical governance and quality improvement
- Knowledge of nursing and midwifery practice and education policy
- Experience or knowledge of midwifery care across the whole maternity pathway including community, acute and pre hospital care
- Knowledge of IPC practice and policy
- Understanding of the NHS and care system, political environment and evidence-based approach to decision making
- Understanding of the political and cultural complexity of the NHS
- Knowledge of how to apply different approaches to change across the health service
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
Desirable criteria
- Experience of budgetary responsible, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes Management of staff/ functions
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical)
- Inputs to strategic plans across NHS and within the specific teams
- Demonstrable experience of delivering results through the development and management of teams to ensure success and use a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility
- Ability to build effective cross functional working relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders to drive organisational agenda
Values and behaviours
Essential criteria
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gaynor Armstrong
- Job title
- Regional Chief Midwife (Midlands)
- Email address
- [email protected]
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