Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-EOE-6419098-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Victoria House
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £83,571 - £96,376 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Regional Chief Midwife
NHS AfC: Band 8d
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 is an exciting midwifery leadership role in the East of England Region supporting the Regional Chief Midwife. Working to realise the ambitions of the Maternity and Neonatal Long-Term Plan and key national maternity priorities, the postholder will work with key stakeholders across the health system to provide strategic leadership and professional guidance regionally. They will hold responsibility for the delivery of key objectives and support programmes of work relating to maternity policy, strategy and professional priorities and the delivery of high quality, safe and personalised health and care across the region. They will also deputise for the Regional Chief Midwife.
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.
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
There are five key responsibilities:
1) Support a defined portfolio ensuring that all workstreams are inclusive, diverse, and equitable.
2) Provide strategic professional midwifery leadership and guidance on the effective commissioning and provision of safer and personalised maternity services.
3) Support the strategy and delivery of the Maternity and Neonatal three year plan, including the maternity commitments of the NHS Long Term Plan.
4) Lead on the safety and quality agenda with the implementation of national maternity review recommendations, to improve care and safety of maternity services across the region. This would include immediate and essential actions and be underpinned by recognised QI methodology and associated resources. Report into the regional perinatal safety surveillance steering group, regional Quality Committee or equivalent
5) To deputise for the regional Chief Midwife across all workstreams at regional and national level
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
· Work in partnership with regional governance leads on quality assurance and risk management, to drive regional improvement of outcomes for women and babies and maternity service user experience.
· Lead the review and updates to the regional Nursing/Midwifery risk register on maternity matters.
· Provide credible leadership and take responsibility for engagement with national, regional and local clinical and quality improvement stakeholders to ensure quality and safety improvements to women’s and babies care are at the centre of service provision.
· Work with Public Health teams and training, workforce and education on health promotion, ill health prevention and education matters that improves the quality of maternity provision drawing on national and international best practice.
· On behalf of the Regional Chief Midwife, work in collaboration with the Regional Nursing, Midwifery and Medical Directors in each region to ensure a co-ordinated approach to overseeing and supporting Maternity services and Local Maternity Systems to improve quality, through the adoption of robust quality improvement methodologies.
· Develop positive working relationships with regional leads within key national bodies including the CQC, HEE and other professional bodies
· Responsible for preparing well written strategic reports/briefings as required in the field of research, quality and improvement to the Regional Chief Midwife as required.
· Maintain a good knowledge of emerging policies, research and identify best practice to assist maternity services to continuously improve
· Knowledge of social inclusion & health inequalities and can articulate the benefits of the WRES standards
· To work collaboratively across the NHS England matrix, including integrating the National Director’s portfolio.
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
· 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.
· To work closely and proactively with MVP chairs
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
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
- 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
- Wendy Matthews
- Job title
- Regional Chief Midwife
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07725489882
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