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NHS England leads the NHS in England to deliver high quality care for all. We support NHS organisations to deliver better outcomes for our patients and communities, work to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and drive improvement across the NHS.
Through our seven regional teams, NHS England supports local integrated care systems, made up of public services that provide health and care – NHS organisations, primary care professionals, local councils, social care providers and the community, voluntary and social enterprise sector – to improve the health of the population, improve the quality of care, tackle inequalities and deliver care more efficiently.
Clinical Lead - Culture and Leadership
Closed for applications on: 24-Jul-2024 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 24-Jul-2024 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Wellington House/Wellington Place
- Town
- Leeds/London/Flexible
- Postcode
- SE1 8UG
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 12 months (Secondment Cover until 01-September-2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8c)
Specialty
- Main area
- Administrative services
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.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Job overview
As the clinical lead for culture and leadership, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the maternity transformation team to make national policy and support local systems to make changes to the safety of their maternity services, including the way they support leaders to promote the culture for safer, more personalised care.
The clinical lead for culture and leadership will continue leading on the rollout of The Perinatal Leadership Development Programme (PLDP). The PLDP is aimed at the ‘quadrumvirate’ of midwifery, obstetrics, neonatal services and operational leadership. The programme has focused on developing the quadrumvirate both as individual leaders and as a leadership team and encourages role modelling of the culture change required across services.
This role will lead on the range of initiatives to support a culture of safer and personalised care, managing the key programme interfaces with NHSE/ I and national partner organisations. The role will promote ensuring a culture of continuous quality improvement across the system in support of safer clinical outcomes for women and their families throughout the maternity pathway and beyond into a healthy start in life.
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The post holder will be responsible for:
- Managing the team’s business support function, including developing and managing the team’s annual business plan, progress and dashboard reporting and risk and issue management
- Manage all necessary business returns, including planning and workforce returns.
- Develop and implement systems to ensure information is properly managed and best practice is shared across the team, Directorate and the wider NHS organisations as appropriate.
- Take a lead in the coordination of training and development and recruitment activity across the Department or Directorate.
- Oversight and management of all aspects of the Department or Directorate budgets.
- Line management
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
- To work collaboratively across the NHS England matrix, including integrating the National Director’s portfolio.
- To work with system partners and regions to achieve positive outcomes in maternity services
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 demonstrate leadership in achieving equity across maternity services in England
- 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 deliver personal, equitable and safe maternity services. Reaching out to other government departments, arm’s length bodies and stakeholders to build consensus on key programme outcomes.
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
Using insight and evidence for improvement
- To ensure all policy recommendations and developments have a robust evidence base, and continually reflect and build on that as new evidence emerges.
- Developing an excellent organisation
- To ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of all staff within the department
- To ensure compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements within the department
- To adhere to the NHS Managers Code of Conduct and any other relevant professional codes of conduct at all times
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
- Post-graduate management or specialist qualification or equivalent experience
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to safety, culture and achieving equity in health systems
- Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable senior management experience
- A good understanding of maternity and neonatal safety, personalisation and equity
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
- Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances.
Values and behaviours
Essential criteria
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
- Ability to build effective cross functional working relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders to drive organisational agenda
Documents
- Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 432.4KB)
- Occupational Functional Requirements Form (PDF, 69.8KB)
- NHSE - Verification of ID and RTW Guide (PDF, 306.6KB)
- Guide to Completing Your Application (DOCX, 42.7KB)
- Note for Existing NHS Employees applying for Fixed Term vacancies (DOCX, 26.2KB)
- Redundancy Clawback (PDF, 16.7KB)
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kuljeet Chung
- Job title
- Assistant Director of Maternity and Newborn Safety
- Email address
- [email protected]
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