NHS England

Regional Chief Midwife

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Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Midlands Nursing Directorate and Perinatal Team as the Regional Chief Midwife. This substantive post is 1.0 WTE and at a band 9.

The postholder will lead the strategic development of the regional perinatal strategy, improvement and delivery plans. Acting as a regional champion for maternity services. Working closely with the Chief Midwifery Officer, the NHS England National team and key stakeholders across the health system to ensure the commissioning and provision of safe, personalised maternity services.

The seven integrated regions across England work with local systems to support and improve how care is provided to women, families and our communities. The Midlands region has 11 Integrated care Systems, the priority of the role will be to lead and manage the delivery of perinatal services through these 11 local integrated health systems and partnerships, with providers to ensure that organisations are improving maternity and neonatal services to reduce unwarranted variation; deliver the national safety ambition and delivery of the 3 year delivery plan

Main duties of the job

This role is an integral part of the regional nursing and midwifery management and leadership team at NHSE working with the regional Chief Nurse, RLT, statutory partners and the local health economy.

The postholder will act as a regional champion for maternity services. Working closely with the Chief Midwifery Officer, the NHS England National team and key stakeholders across the health system to ensure the commissioning and provision of safe, personalised maternity services. Key duties include:

Provide specialist maternity and midwifery advice to the regional: Chief Nurse, Medical Director, Executive Team, local maternity providers and other key stakeholders.
Develop and implement an effective strategy for maternity transformation in line with national, regional and local priorities and in doing so ensure alignment across the system.

Act as a champion for women and babies. Involve the public and users in the policy development and decision-making of NHSE; support user representation at regional and local level (through Maternity & Neonatal Voices Partnerships)

Represent the region at national and public events, acting independently, decisively and effectively. This may involve delivering difficult messages and contentious information to high level audiences.

Work in partnership with Local Maternity & Neonatal Systems, ICSs, provider organisations to shape local transformation plans in line with the three year delivery plan and the NHS Long Term Plan

About us

In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.

The new 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 agreat 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.

Date posted

29 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 9

Salary

£99,891 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

990-S3-MID2080

Job locations

Cardinal Square (Midlands Flexible across the region)

Derby

DE1 3QT

Job description

Job responsibilities

You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

For further details / informal visits contact: Nina Morgan, Nina.morgan6@nhs.net

Job description

Job responsibilities

You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

For further details / informal visits contact: Nina Morgan, Nina.morgan6@nhs.net

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

Essential

Educated to master's level or equivalent academic level and experience of project and programme management techniques and tools including for example, Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects.
In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time. Subject matter expertise across key areas relating to maternity services, including national policy.
Contemporary leadership and knowledge of clinical maternity services that has delivered clear and measurable improvements for service users and the teams that support them.
Have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement with stakeholders.
Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public. 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.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

Essential

Educated to master's level or equivalent academic level and experience of project and programme management techniques and tools including for example, Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects.
In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time. Subject matter expertise across key areas relating to maternity services, including national policy.
Contemporary leadership and knowledge of clinical maternity services that has delivered clear and measurable improvements for service users and the teams that support them.
Have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement with stakeholders.
Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public. 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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Additional information

Certificate of Sponsorship

Employer details

Employer name

NHS England

Address

Cardinal Square (Midlands Flexible across the region)

Derby

DE1 3QT

Employer's website

https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

NHS England

Address

Cardinal Square (Midlands Flexible across the region)

Derby

DE1 3QT

Employer's website

https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ (Opens in a new tab)