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Ref: 990-MID-17143-E Vacancy ID: 7491685

Senior Perinatal Quality Improvement Project Manager

Accepting applications until: 05-Oct-2025 23:59

Open

Accepting applications until: 05-Oct-2025 23:59

Location

Any NHSE Midlands Office
Flexible across Midlands
B2 4HQ
West Yorkshire

Contract type & working pattern

Fixed term: 12 months (until 31 October 2026 - Secondment only for current NHS employees)
37.5 hours per week (Full time, hybrid working)

Salary

£55,690 - £62,682 per annum
Yearly

(NHS AfC: Band 8a)

Specialty

Administrative and Clerical

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 a Perinatal Senior Quality Improvement Project Manager, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the Midlands Perinatal Team to support integrated care systems with the delivery of improvement in health outcomes for pregnant service users and their families. 

The post holder is responsible for the delivery of programme of quality improvement projects supporting the drive of continuous improvements in perinatal care and experiences.  In addition, the postholder is responsible for a delivery of specified improvement activities and improvement projects, including creating a culture in which all staff view quality improvement as a core part of their role.    

 

The role will ensure appropriate oversight of key deliverables from national and local policy and strategy including the 10 Year Health Plan for England, Three year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services, formal service reviews such as Ockenden / East Kent and other maternity reviews, and the NHS Operational Planning Guidance.   

Together with other members of the wider team, ensure activities support integrated care boards (ICBs) with their core purpose of quality improvement and ultimately benefit patient and population health outcomes.  

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The role is designed to build a combination of extensive perinatal subject matter expertise and technical skills to develop strong delivery of quality improvement projects.  

The post holder will be responsible for: 

  • Supporting the Perinatal Senior Quality Improvement Programme Manager and Head of QI - with team leadership and management. 

  • Supporting 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. 

  • Ensuring work programme activities support health and social care systems with their core purpose of quality improvement and ultimately benefit patient and population health outcomes.  

  • Overseeing the delivery of work in line with the work portfolio e.g. preterm births, perinatal pelvic health services, alongside bespoke quality improvement projects directly with trusts within the Midlands 

  • Delivering work related to the maternity safety and quality agenda across the region 

  • Working alongside colleagues in the professional and strategic arms of the perinatal team to provide quality improvement and project management expertise e.g. perinatal quality surveillance and regional learning across the region 

  • Supporting the sharing of best practice with system stakeholders (e.g. LMNSs, community of practice groups), the team and wider NHS organisations 

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Essential parts of the role are a passion and demonstrable experience of continuous quality improvement, delivery of QI training to MDT teams within trusts and with other stakeholders, and the hands-on delivery of QI projects. 

 

Operational responsibilities include: 

  • To oversee team members to deliver requirements listed above and engage and liaise with key stakeholders, in particular; 

  • To support the delivery of day to day activities, projects and programmes 

  • To manage team and drive delivery of a range of business initiatives and projects 

  • To operate in a highly political and sensitive environment 

  • Support the portfolio of initiatives in demonstrating value for money for the current spend 

  • To monitor, interpret and quality assure progress against deliverables to NHS England that often require adjustments specifically in relation to the complex corporate business agenda, strategic objectives and the business planning process 

 

Project Management responsibilities include: 

  • Lead the team in the delivery of project plans, allocating tasks as appropriate, identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice and current options and ultimately making decisions in the best interest of the project. 

  • Pro-actively manage stakeholders, respond to and resolve conflict when this arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanisms. 

  • Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time, to quality standards and in a cost-effective manner. 

  • Maintain the project initiation document and associated plans with regular team meetings to monitor progress and resources. 

  • Demonstrate effective stakeholder management. 

  • Support other project managers as and when required. 

  • Take into account the impact of any change the projects will have on the business and oversee handover of any products to ensure full ownership and buy-in within the business  

  • Advocate the projects at senior and executive levels and ensure active engagement and sponsorship within NHS as a whole. 

  • Ensure that the projects maintain business focus, have clear authority and that the context, including risks, is actively managed in alignment with the strategic priorities of NHS. 

You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

Secondments

Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to master’s level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
  • Formal quality improvement qualification e.g. QSIR Practitioner, lean
Desirable criteria
  • Registered midwife and experience of working at senior level

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to maternity and neonatal issues e.g. Maternity & Neonatal 3 Year Single Delivery Plan / Neonatal Critical Care Review
  • Knowledge and experience of service improvement methodologies and improvement tools, underpinned by theory
  • Comprehensive experience of project principles, techniques and tools such as PRINCE 2 and Managing Successful Projects
  • Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations
  • An understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy with experience of identifying and interpreting national policy
  • Experience of managing and motivating a team/virtual team and reviewing performance of the individuals
  • Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy

Skills Capabilities & Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Be able to 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
  • Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change
  • Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
  • Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be numerous courses of action, working to tight and often changing timescales
  • Be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies
  • Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals
  • Be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies

Other

Essential criteria
  • Able to travel across various sites where applicable

Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria
  • Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
  • Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
  • Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
  • Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
  • Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness
  • Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
  • Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Simone Jasim
Job title
Perinatal Senior Quality Improvement Manager
Email address
[email protected]
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