Job summary
The postholder will support the North Bristol Trust counterpart and Programme Manager providing a clinical input into the following workstreams as required:
- Service user involvement and co-production with the BNSSG MVP
- Digital roadmap for maternity services including digital provision due to impact of Covid
- Local workforce strategy
- Promotion of good health pre-conception and during pregnancy
The postholder will ensure that information is provided for highlight and progress reports.
The postholder will attend national and regional events to share good practice and report on progress against the BNSSG maternity transformation plan.
Have the ability to communicate highly complex sensitive or contentious information at a high level, with colleagues across the BNSSG health community. This will include interpreting and analysing highly complex clinical and non-clinical information in order to provide a specialist opinion as to how to ensure the highest quality of care is delivered across BNSSG ICB.
Main duties of the job
Provide clinical leadership for the Local Maternity System, working jointly with the Clinical Lead and North Bristol Trust counterpart to drive transformational change across all relevant services.
Ensure that workstreams for which the post-holder is responsible are developed with full engagement from service users, staff and other stakeholders and reflect the needs of the whole BNSSG ICB area.
Provide clinical leadership to ensure that the workstreams for which the post-holder is responsible achieve their objectives within the timescale for the Programme.
Provide strong leadership to ensure consistency of service across the BNSSG ICB area and all relevant service providers. The postholder will need to work closely with clinical and managerial leads for obstetric and neonatal services to ensure that changes to policy
Work with Trust clinical and managerial leads to support workforce redesign initiatives in order to ensure delivery of the transformation agenda. Lead on setting up evaluation of initiatives to ensure that evidence of effectiveness and outcomes are collected to inform ongoing service improvement.
Work effectively as part of a small team comprising Clinical Lead, Midwifery Clinical Lead, North Bristol Trust counterpart and Programme Manager.
Represent the LMS at the ICB and member organisation Board or Governing Body level where required.
About us
Our maternity services provide a full range of maternity care. Our dedicated midwives, doctors, maternity care support workers (MCSW's) and support staff are committed to providing personalised care to the highest standards.
The service at North Bristol Trust is based at Southmead Hospital and provides a full range of obstetric services for those who live in the catchment of North Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. The maternity department is one of the largest in the country, was awarded 'Good' by the CQC has more than 5200 births each year offering women the choice of 4 places of birth.
Staff working in Maternity at NBT describe the kindness and care that is demonstrated to each other. Great importance is placed on civility and a team ethos of going the extra mile together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide expert clinical leadership to the BNSSG Maternity Transformation team, working closely with clinicians in all relevant disciplines to promote the highest standards of maternity care
To ensure that information on performance and quality outcomes is made available for reports to the LMS Strategic Group, the Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) and member organisation governing bodies as required.
The post holder will engage with a wide variety of staff and respond to queries from senior officers, non-executive directors, cabinet members and report to health scrutiny committee and other external bodies as required.
To ensure that evaluation is a core part of the transformation plan and that evaluation is constantly utilised within the commissioning cycle.
Develop and maintain close and effective working relationships with Clinical and Managerial leads for maternity and neonatal services in the provider Trusts.
Ensure that service models are cost effective and advise on cost improvement and effective use of resources across the Local Maternity System
Job description
Job responsibilities
Provide expert clinical leadership to the BNSSG Maternity Transformation team, working closely with clinicians in all relevant disciplines to promote the highest standards of maternity care
To ensure that information on performance and quality outcomes is made available for reports to the LMS Strategic Group, the Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) and member organisation governing bodies as required.
The post holder will engage with a wide variety of staff and respond to queries from senior officers, non-executive directors, cabinet members and report to health scrutiny committee and other external bodies as required.
To ensure that evaluation is a core part of the transformation plan and that evaluation is constantly utilised within the commissioning cycle.
Develop and maintain close and effective working relationships with Clinical and Managerial leads for maternity and neonatal services in the provider Trusts.
Ensure that service models are cost effective and advise on cost improvement and effective use of resources across the Local Maternity System
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Registered Professional Clinician with confirmed entry on specialist register eg: NMC, GMC etc
- First level degree or equivalent experience and/or working towards a Masters degree
- Professional clinical experience at a senior level in maternity services and/or neonatology
- Experience of leading on patient safety issues and achieving change in practice
- Advanced and in depth knowledge of current developments / Issues in obstetrics and gynaecology which may influence the service.
Desirable
- Demonstrate capability to plan over short, medium and long term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Knowledge of governance and decision making structures and processes in provider and commissioner organisations
- Completion of leadership development programme/ course/ module
- Demonstratable experience of service improvement and transformation, achieving cultural change to improve service quality.
- Commitment to Trust values and Behaviours
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Registered Professional Clinician with confirmed entry on specialist register eg: NMC, GMC etc
- First level degree or equivalent experience and/or working towards a Masters degree
- Professional clinical experience at a senior level in maternity services and/or neonatology
- Experience of leading on patient safety issues and achieving change in practice
- Advanced and in depth knowledge of current developments / Issues in obstetrics and gynaecology which may influence the service.
Desirable
- Demonstrate capability to plan over short, medium and long term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
- Knowledge of governance and decision making structures and processes in provider and commissioner organisations
- Completion of leadership development programme/ course/ module
- Demonstratable experience of service improvement and transformation, achieving cultural change to improve service quality.
- Commitment to Trust values and Behaviours
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
