Job summary
Strategic Nurse Advisor - MSSP
This is a very short-term position and therefore applicants must be available for an immediate start.
As a Strategic Nurse Adviser the post-holder will lead a time-limited project reviewing the Maternity Safety Support Programme (MSSP) and work as part of a dynamic team in delivering an effective service supporting managers and staff across the Nursing and Midwifery sector:
- providing strategic nursing/clinical recommendations to the Chief Midwifery Officer with the aim of improving the MSSP and related maternity safety workstreams
- have accountability and responsibility for the strategic and operational development of the assigned review
- design plans to achieve the strategy underpinned by the delivery of short to medium term objectives
Main duties of the job
- Deliver a full review of the MSSP including governance and assurance mechanisms.
- Make recommendations for future running of the programme, considering contemporaneous issues in maternity services.
- Proactively manage the key risks and issues associated with ensuring appropriate actions are taken to mitigate or respond.
- Monitoring and establishing accountability on the overall progress of the review to ensure completion within agreed timescales.
About us
NHS England leads the NHS in England to deliver high quality care for all. We support NHS organisations to deliver better outcomes for our patients and communities, work to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and drive improvement across the NHS.
Through our seven regional teams, NHS England supports localintegrated care systems, made up of public services that provide health and care - NHS organisations, primary care professionals, local councils, social care providers and the community, voluntary and social enterprise sector - to improve the health of the population, improve the quality of care, tackle inequalities and deliver care more efficiently.
From April 2023, NHS England, Health Education England and NHS Digital became one single organisation, putting workforce, data, digital and technology at the heart of our plans to transform the NHS.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main duties continued:
- Manage the whole budgetary implications of activity.
- Avoid the destabilisation of business as usual.
- Manage and actively promote the relationships with key stakeholders, particularly the Maternity and Neonatal Programme and Regional Midwifery teams.
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.If you like what you have read and think you have the skills and experience, we need then don't delay, apply today! We get lots of applications for our roles and so we sometimes have to close our posts early. Don't miss out!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main duties continued:
- Manage the whole budgetary implications of activity.
- Avoid the destabilisation of business as usual.
- Manage and actively promote the relationships with key stakeholders, particularly the Maternity and Neonatal Programme and Regional Midwifery teams.
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.If you like what you have read and think you have the skills and experience, we need then don't delay, apply today! We get lots of applications for our roles and so we sometimes have to close our posts early. Don't miss out!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
- Registered Nurse or Midwife with current NMC registration
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to nursing and midwifery policy, patient safety and quality improvement
- Proven and significant clinical leadership experience and/or formal management qualification.
- Significant evidence of continued professional development
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies or a Prince 2 or managing successful projects practitioner.
- Experience and/or understanding of the UK Health Economy
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
- Experience of leading major change initiatives with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment
- Significant experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid knowledge of financial process requirements
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
- Member of a relevant professional body
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential
- Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment with knowledge of and experience in handling media relations
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical).
- Demonstrable ability to act upon incomplete information, using experience gained to make inferences and decision making
- Significant ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives
- Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
- Demonstrable ability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management
- Demonstrable ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required
- Demonstrable ability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
- Registered Nurse or Midwife with current NMC registration
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to nursing and midwifery policy, patient safety and quality improvement
- Proven and significant clinical leadership experience and/or formal management qualification.
- Significant evidence of continued professional development
- Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
- Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies or a Prince 2 or managing successful projects practitioner.
- Experience and/or understanding of the UK Health Economy
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.
- Experience of leading major change initiatives with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment
- Significant experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid knowledge of financial process requirements
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
- Member of a relevant professional body
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential
- Ability to deal with challenging situations in a formal setting
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment with knowledge of and experience in handling media relations
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical).
- Demonstrable ability to act upon incomplete information, using experience gained to make inferences and decision making
- Significant ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives
- Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills
- Demonstrable ability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management
- Demonstrable ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required
- Demonstrable ability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
Additional information
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).
