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About
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.
Midwifery Quality and Professional Development Lead
Accepting applications until: 09-Dec-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 09-Dec-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Flexible across the Midlands
- Town
- Leicestershire/Nottinghamshire/West Midlands
- Postcode
- B2 4BH
- Major / Minor Region
- West Yorkshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8c)
Specialty
- Main area
- Nursing and Midwifery
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
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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
Our commitments to you
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We strive to ensure our people feel trusted, valued and empowered. We’re passionate about nurturing and developing people. When you join us, we want you to grow and excel, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that. We welcome your talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro-divergent.
We welcome applications from disabled candidates. If you meet all the essential criteria, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK under the Skilled Worker route are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
If applying for this role on a secondment basis, please make sure you have obtained prior agreement from your current line manager to apply for this position.
Please note that we currently do not accept applications via recruitment agencies.
The NHS Business Services Authority is responsible for the processing of your application; a privacy notice is attached to advise you on how we will process your personal data.
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You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through NHS Jobs, and furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any emails sent to us via NHS Jobs. If you have a query relating to your application, please contact the recruitment team on [email protected] or 0300 330 1369. You can view our Privacy Notice here.
NHS England
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.
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
Documents
- Job description and person specification (PDF, 488.6KB)
- 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
- Gaynor Armstrong
- Job title
- Regional Chief Midwife (Midlands)
- Email address
- [email protected]
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