Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 9
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-7022113
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £105,385 - £121,271 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Director of Midwifery
NHS AfC: Band 9
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are seeking an inspiring and forward-thinking Director of Midwifery to lead our teams in delivering exceptional care and achieving our strategic ambitions.
This is a unique opportunity for an innovative and collaborative leader who is passionate about making a difference. You will bring the drive, energy, compassion, and resilience needed to shape a culture where women and families receive outstanding care and where our teams are empowered to thrive, grow and care together.
With proven experience operating at a senior strategic level, you will use your exceptional leadership skills to influence and drive improvements both within our organisation and across wider system and national networks.
If you're ready to play a key role in leading transformational change and delivering excellence in midwifery care, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Above all else, the Director of Midwifery will embody our values – focused on patients, continuously improving, and innovating through collaboration and teamwork, striving for excellence, and being respectful of others and the role that they play in delivering and receiving healthcare across the county.
The Director of Midwifery & Women’s Services is a key position, professionally accountable to the Chief Nurse with a prime focus on the strategic delivery of high standards of women’s care across integrated care pathways and services.
The role involves working in partnership with other organisations in the provision and planning of universal health services, taking forward national polices for maternity services to develop a long-term strategic vision that enables high quality and sustainable services.
The role involves working across the ICS and to develop and maintain a network of mutually beneficial relationships with Maternity providers, Public Health England, Heath Education England, Care Quality Commission, Royal Colleges, and other key stakeholders. You will have overall responsibility for the strategic and operational clinical safety standards.
Working for our organisation
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is a very special organisation which has big ambitions for the future. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our patients has never been more important, so we need individuals with the right blend of skills, experience, and a genuine desire to help our organisation succeed.
You will be joining East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust at an incredibly exciting time. We are focused on becoming an outstanding Trust with people-centred leadership supporting our 6,800 dedicated staff to provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant cultural and organisational transformation, and we are 1 year into a partnership with the Virginia Mason Institute, which will embed a lean-based quality management system across the Trust. We are also in the process of applying for Teaching Hospital status with the support of our academic partners including the University of Hertfordshire, the University of Cambridge, and University College London.
We particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic communities, women and disabled people who we know are under-represented in senior NHS roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications/Experience
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Preferably graduate level, preferably combined with a Masters.
- Through testing demonstrate sound numeric and verbal reasoning
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries.
- Experience of a senior operational management role, within a midwifery setting
- Experience of leading services which realise quality, cost, and delivery benefits
- Experience of managing significant financial resources.
- Experience and skills in financial analysis integrated with quality and activity data applied to service decision making.
- Experience of leading and delivering complex projects to an agreed project plan
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience and evidence of strategic translation into sound financial and operational plans
- Experience of developing and implementing strategic direction
- Significant management and clinical leadership experience at senior level within an NHS Trust
- Operational management and clinical leadership experience of working in an acute setting would be highly beneficial.
- Excellent understanding of wider NHS and Health inequalities agenda.
- Experience and understanding of equality, diversity, and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values, diversity and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities
- Understands the impact on equality, diversity, and inclusion issues in all aspects of services delivery and planning.
Competencies
Essential criteria
- Translating strategy into action
- Planning and organising
- Managing people
- Customer focus
- Decision making and influencing
- Evidence of working/understanding a devolved management system
Functional
Essential criteria
- Project management
- Continuous improvement
- Organisation development
- Communication planning
- Performance management
- Financial management
Behavioural
Essential criteria
- Ownership, personal responsibility, and accountability - for delivering commitments.
- Collaboration and involvement – with cross divisional teams/across the Trust
- Stakeholder relationship building – internally Engaging and motivational – support to teams; recognition of great performance
- Inspirational leadership – credible, respected, and knowledgeable.
- Followership and leadership – tenacious, consistently follows through decisions made.
- Gravitas and integrity – building confidence and assurance.
- Ambitious – “to develop/grow the business”.
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
- Amanda Rowley
- Job title
- Director of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438285602
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