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Midwifery
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NHS AfC: Band 8d
Contract
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Llawnamser - 37.5 awr yr wythnos
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990-NHSE0604-LN
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NHS England
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NHS
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Wellington House
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London
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£83,571 - £96,376 Per Annum
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11/08/2024 23:59

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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.

Trosolwg o'r swydd

Are you ready to make a profound impact in midwifery leadership? We are seeking a compassionate, accomplished, dynamic senior leader. In this pivotal role, you will support the Regional Chief Midwife in realising the ambitions of national and regional maternity priorities through compassionate leadership, co-production, and continuous improvement.

 

In this role, you'll:

·       Provide strategic leadership and professional guidance.

·       Lead the maternity workforce and leadership agenda.

·       Drive high-quality, safe, personalised, equitable and inclusive maternity care.

·       Collaborate with key stakeholders across the capital and national health system.

 

This post offers a unique opportunity to influence our region's future of maternity care. If you are dedicated to improving maternal and neonatal health and passionate about leading positive change and supporting our diverse capital workforce, we invite you to apply and make a lasting impact on the lives of women, birthing people, babies, and families.

 

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

This is senior midwifery leadership role and is an integral part of the regional nursing and midwifery management leadership team at NHS England, working closely with the regional Chief Midwife, regional and national maternity and neonatal teams. The post holder will also work with the regional Chief Nurse, the regional Chief Obstetrician, the regional Executive Team, specialised commissioning and local system senior leadership within the five Integrated Care Board’s in London and Local Maternity and Neonatal System leads.

As the Deputy Regional Chief Midwife, the role will support the Regional Chief Midwife to provide strategic leadership and professional guidance regionally, working with key stakeholders across the health system to ensure that the NHS ambitions are realised through the effective commissioning and provision of safe and personalised maternity services.

The Regional Maternity Team is led by the Regional Chief Midwife who is supported by the Obstetric Lead for London, Deputy Chief Midwife, Service User Voice Lead, Senior Programme Manager, Senior Project Manager. Project Manager and Business Support Officer. The team incorporates the London Maternity Clinical Network.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

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.

Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl

Support the implementation of the Three-Year Delivery Plan (3YDP) for maternity and neonatal services and other related recommendations for national reviews at the regional level to improve care and safety of maternity services across the region.

§  Support the Regional Chief Midwife in maintaining oversight of maternity services in London and LMNS' capacity and capability to quality assure and implement the objectives outlined in the three year delivery plan and other maternity review recommendations and policies.

  •      Work with key stakeholders and wider regulatory bodies, such as the Care Quality Commission (CQC), NHS Resolution (NHSR), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations (MNSI) to share wider intelligence and provide consistent

§  support and interventions where warranted.

§  Ensure that mechanisms are in place within the region for early identification and sustained resolution of issues that affect quality and safety.

Support the Regional Chief Midwife to provide strategic professional leadership.

§  Set the direction for the midwifery profession by acting as an advocate for regional priorities, including representing the regional chief midwife on national platforms, key committees and conferences.

§  Develop midwifery leadership capacity and capability across the region.

§  Acquit the Regional Chief Midwife responsibilities in relation to promoting quality improvement initiatives, including the Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme (MatNeoSip, within Health Innovation Networks, the national Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle, national Maternity Incentive Scheme, continuity of carer, health promotion and public health and the stop smoking champion role.

§  Build links and networks with other teams within NHS England and other partners, including for example: Royal College of Midwives, CQC, MNSI, NHSR, NMC, Department of Health and Social Care, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, service user voices, UNICEF Baby Friendly and other relevant charities, to ensure that midwifery is considered appropriately and across system networking and leadership is effective.

 

Working with the Regional Chief Midwife leading and implementing policy.

Working in partnership with the national and regional maternity teams, Regional Chief Nurse, Regional Medical Director, Executive team, local maternity providers, other key stakeholders and the wider programme structure to shape strategy and implementation of the programme, 

§  including ensuring that both the equity and midwifery perspectives are considered and integrated at all levels.

§  Championing LMNS as vehicles for change, in particular by promoting the coming together of clinicians, service users and others across professional and organisational boundaries.

§  In conjunction with other team members act as an advocate for continuity of carer, providing specific support to individual LMNSs, Directors and Heads of Midwifery as required, and supporting efforts to target models of care for women from the world majority and deprived communities to reduce health inequalities.

§  Helping to shape policy delivery in areas where the midwifery profession can contribute to efforts to improve postnatal care, improve prevention (including reducing maternal smoking), and empower women to make choices about their care.

§  Contributing to regional leadership for the London Maternity Clinical Network.

Supporting the development and growth of the midwifery and support staff workforce, across the region

§  As the Deputy Regional Chief Midwife, the post holder will lead and work as part of a dynamic team in delivering its programme. The role will work with colleagues in the nursing and quality directorate, trust senior managers and LMNS leads across maternity to support the provision of safe and personal evidenced based maternity care that reflects the ambition of national maternity policy.

Manyleb y person

Qualifications

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • 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

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period in the following areas: - Midwifery and maternity/Strategy and policy
  • Proven and significant leadership experience from at least an LMS perspective and/or formal management qualification with proven success.
  • Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment at LMS level as a minimum
  • Significant experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid knowledge of financial process requirements.

Skills, capabilities and attributes

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • Proven experience at a senior leadership level in delivering strategic transformational change.
  • Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
  • Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills at regional or national level.
  • Demonstrable ability to use autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation.

Values and Behaviours

Meini prawf hanfodol
  • 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.
  • Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness.

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