Job summary
This post will be integral to supporting the Regional Chief Midwife and Regional Quality Lead in driving quality improvement and safe outcomes of maternity services. Delivered through a supportive, hands-on approach - reinforcing sustainable initiatives to units on the ground in working through their challenges, whilst also continuing to support the embedding of system and regional oversight through the Regional Perinatal Quality Oversight Group.
To ensure all public, women and birthing people contact is of the highest professional standard and embed user involvement and co design within the NHS England/NHS Improvement at all levels of decision-making.
Please note that the reason for the fixed term of your contract is fixed term funding.
Main duties of the job
Key aspects of the role
This will include delivery of work to support:
- Full implementation of Saving babies Lives Care Bundle V2
- Compliance with NHS Resolution Maternity Incentive Scheme (CNST) 10 safety actions
- Implementation of safety recommendations from national reports.
- The East of England smoke free pregnancy project
- Address variation and quality improvement within local maternity and neonates especially within high areas of need and deprivation to ensure equality of access to maternity services across the system.
- Act as a champion for women, pregnant people and their interests and involve women, pregnant people, user representatives and Maternity Voice Partnerships in qualityimprovement projects
- Better outcomes for women, families, and local populations utilising evidence-based approaches that enable both improvement and sustainability in maternity services
- This list is not exhaustive and may include other projects
- Sharing of learning regionally in relation to the initiatives, through a variety of platforms
- Participate with planning and facilitating regional forums, webinars and shared learning events
- Support the implementation of perinatal initiatives relating to the NHS Long Term plan and Maternity services planning guidance
About us
The maternity clinical network works in close partnership with local maternity and neonatal systems and is their primary source of support, it provides clinical input and expertise, supports local maternity and neonatal systems to establish themselves, and draws up and implements local maternity transformation plans. It helps local maternity and neonatal systems understand and interpret national policy for local implementation. It supports benchmarking of the quality of services and spreads good practice from across the country and brings in different parts of the system as appropriate to support individual local maternity and neonatal systems resolve particular local issues and challenges.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Operational
- To support the delivery of day-to-day activities, projects and programmes
- To support 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 and NHS Improvement that often require adjustments specifically in relation to the complex corporate business agenda, strategic objectives and the business planning process
- To develop business plans and provide expert strategic and policy advice and guidance on all areas of the National Directors portfolio
Project Management
- Supporting 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
- Maintain the project initiation document and associated plans with regular team meetings to monitor progress and
- Demonstrate effective stakeholder
- Support other project managers as and when
- 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
Financial and Physical Resources
- Act in a way that is compliant with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions in the discharge of budget management responsibilities, monitor expenditure on a regular
- Responsible for ongoing monitoring of expenditure against budget and ensuring the appropriate documentation is available for scrutiny.
- Identify products, equipment, services and facilities for assigned activities, achieving stakeholder buy-in as required. Placing orders and signing invoices.
- Responsible for making recommendations, providing advice and able to prepare strategic reports/briefings for the Head of Department, and relevant
People Management
- Forge close positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives.
- To support, motivate and develop people within the
- Managing third parties (such as consultants/interims) to ensure deliverables are met in a timely manner and within
Information Management
- Drafting detailed reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for the Head of
- Collate as required, a range of information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and contribute to project
- Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision
Policy and Service Development
- Responsible for proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to policies, guidelines and service level agreements (SLAs) which may impact service.
- Proposes changes to own function making recommendations for other service
- The post holder will need to maintain a good knowledge of emerging policies from government departments for example pensions, change management,
Research and Development
- Plan, develop and evaluate methods and processes for gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting data and information
- Co-ordinating Research & Development initiatives, delegating as
Planning and Organisation
- Contribute to the strategic planning of team projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on the wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
- Contribute to short, medium- and long-term business plans, achieving quality
Job description
Job responsibilities
Operational
- To support the delivery of day-to-day activities, projects and programmes
- To support 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 and NHS Improvement that often require adjustments specifically in relation to the complex corporate business agenda, strategic objectives and the business planning process
- To develop business plans and provide expert strategic and policy advice and guidance on all areas of the National Directors portfolio
Project Management
- Supporting 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
- Maintain the project initiation document and associated plans with regular team meetings to monitor progress and
- Demonstrate effective stakeholder
- Support other project managers as and when
- 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
Financial and Physical Resources
- Act in a way that is compliant with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions in the discharge of budget management responsibilities, monitor expenditure on a regular
- Responsible for ongoing monitoring of expenditure against budget and ensuring the appropriate documentation is available for scrutiny.
- Identify products, equipment, services and facilities for assigned activities, achieving stakeholder buy-in as required. Placing orders and signing invoices.
- Responsible for making recommendations, providing advice and able to prepare strategic reports/briefings for the Head of Department, and relevant
People Management
- Forge close positive working relationships, in order to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS objectives.
- To support, motivate and develop people within the
- Managing third parties (such as consultants/interims) to ensure deliverables are met in a timely manner and within
Information Management
- Drafting detailed reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for the Head of
- Collate as required, a range of information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and contribute to project
- Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision
Policy and Service Development
- Responsible for proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to policies, guidelines and service level agreements (SLAs) which may impact service.
- Proposes changes to own function making recommendations for other service
- The post holder will need to maintain a good knowledge of emerging policies from government departments for example pensions, change management,
Research and Development
- Plan, develop and evaluate methods and processes for gathering, analysing, interpreting and presenting data and information
- Co-ordinating Research & Development initiatives, delegating as
Planning and Organisation
- Contribute to the strategic planning of team projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on the wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
- Contribute to short, medium- and long-term business plans, achieving quality
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Business Management/administrative/programme management qualification/ Masters level or equivalent level of working at a senior level in specialist area
- Have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Business Management/administrative/programme management qualification/ Masters level or equivalent level of working at a senior level in specialist area
- Have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
