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Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB
About
Contact
- Address
- Omega House
- 112 Southampton Road
- Eastleigh
- Hampshire
- SO50 5PB
- Contact Number
- 0300 561 0200
Maternity Commissioner
Accepting applications until: 01-Jul-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 01-Jul-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Omega House
- Town
- Eastleigh
- Postcode
- SO50 5PB
- Major / Minor Region
- Hampshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (days of week flexible around delivery need)
Salary
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Commissioning
Job overview
Please note this organisation does not hold a sponsorship licence, we regret to inform you that we are unable to consider applications from individuals who require sponsorship.
NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board is seeking an experienced and motivated Maternity Commissioner to join our Nursing, Quality and Improvement team.
This is an exciting opportunity to influence the future of maternity and neonatal services across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, working within a complex and evolving healthcare system focused on improving outcomes, reducing inequalities, and delivering high-quality care for women, babies and families.
The role is offered on a 30-hour basis and includes agile working, with a minimum expectation of regular office presence and system-wide engagement across provider and partner organisations.
What We Offer:
Flexible and agile working arrangements
Opportunity to influence maternity and neonatal transformation at system level
A supportive and collaborative team environment
Professional development opportunities
NHS Pension Scheme and employee benefits package
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact: Margaret Beattie Associate Director for Maternity and Neonatal at [email protected]
Advert
The postholder will lead and support the commissioning of maternity and neonatal services across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. The role includes working closely with provider trusts, Local Maternity and Neonatal providers, NHS England, service users, primary care, public health and wider system stakeholders.
You will play a key role in ensuring that maternity and neonatal services to deliver the strategic objectives of Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB in:
1. Improved personalised neighbourhood care
2. Greater Prevention
3. Smarter use of technology and data
4. Better value
5. Thriving Workforce
The role includes oversight of:
Service transformation and improvement,
System governance and escalation processes,
Commissioning intentions and pathways,
Equity and personalised care initiatives,
Stakeholder and service-user engagement,
Performance monitoring and contractual oversight,
We are looking for someone with:
Experience within maternity, neonatal, commissioning, and quality improvement environments.
Understanding of NHS maternity and neonatal policy.
Experience of working collaboratively across organisational boundaries.
The ability to manage complex operational and strategic priorities.
Excellent communication, influencing and relationship-building skills.
A compassionate, inclusive and improvement-focused leadership style.
Candidates with commissioning or operational leadership experience are welcomed.
Working for our organisation
We offer excellent employment opportunities to new and existing staff. We aim to be a model employer by embedding best HR practice and to support new ways of working.
We pride ourselves on offering good working conditions, job security, lifelong learning, fair pay and benefits, staff involvement and a balance between work and personal life.
We enjoy a forward thinking and innovative culture and our vision is to have healthy people, living healthy lives in healthy communities. We understand the only way to deliver this is to have the right people with the right skills.
Here is a summary of some of the benefits and services which are on offer to staff:
· 27 days paid minimum holiday and bank holiday entitlement
· NHS pension scheme
· Sick pay policy
· Occupational health services including staff counselling services
· Flexible working and family friendly policies
· Flexible retirement and retirement vouchers
· Health Service Discounts – offers for stores, travel, equipment etc.
Successful candidates will be subject to a six-month probationary period.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Working closely with the Associate Director for Maternity and Neonatal, you will:
· Lead and support commissioning and service improvement across HIOW maternity and neonatal services.
· Drive local commissioning agendas to ensure services meet population needs, alongside improving health inequalities.
· System collaboration across the HIOW geography — including Hampshire, Southampton, Isle of Wight, and Portsmouth with clinicians, managers, public health, local authorities, and voluntary sector partners.
· Champion engagement and co-production to shape and deliver impactful safety, quality and improvement.
You will play a key role in developing and implementing commissioning strategies, ensuring alignment with national and local system priorities and goals.
Please note the following before applying:
1. We reserve the right to amend the closing date based on the volume of applications received. Vacancies attracting a high volume of applications may therefore close earlier than advertised.
2. In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
3. As a Disability Confident Employer we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. As an ICB, we value diversity and are committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.
4. If you are successful and are joining from a non-NHS background, there will be an expectation that you will be engaged from the bottom of the pay band. If you would like to review the Agenda for Change pay scales in more detail and to view other benefits of working in the NHS, please visit the Agenda for Change website for further details.
5. New employees to the ICB will be subject to a probationary period of six months (some exemptions apply, please refer to the ICBs policy for full details).
We encourage and support our staff to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as this remains the best way to protect ourselves, our families, our colleagues, and patients from the virus.
We recognise that some candidates for accessibility reasons may use software to support their application. At our Organisation, our selection process ensures we recruit candidates with the right skills and values. We monitor applications and remain alert to misuse that misrepresents abilities including the inappropriate use of AI.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications and/ or experience
Essential criteria
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of commissioning and health service management, underpinned by theory and experience, acquired through a Master’s degree (or equivalent level experience).
- Commissioning qualification and/or specialist knowledge across range of procedures, underpinned by theory.
- Specialist knowledge of health service management, including organisational change, service redesign and workforce transformation, developed to Master’s level or equivalent through substantial experience.
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Experience of supporting initiatives/service changes which cross organisational boundaries.
- Experience of managing own workload.
- Experience of setting up new systems and processes for organisations or functions.
- Effective team working.
- Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Ability to work under pressure in a busy working environment and able to multi-task.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of Confidentiality and Data Protection Act.
- Knowledge of NHS issues.
Communication and interpersonal skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Clear communicator with excellent writing, data entry and presentation skills: capable of constructing and delivering clear information/ instructions to staff and service users.
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
Analytical and problem-solving skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
IT and digital literacy
Essential criteria
- Ability to move between details and the bigger picture.
- Self-motivated to embrace change, viewing it an opportunity to learn and develop.
- Excellent knowledge of IT systems and software programmes such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.
Documents
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Margaret Beattie
- Job title
- Associate Director of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
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