About this role
Job summary
Provide senior operational leadership for the Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS), supporting the Clinical leaders and Senior Responsible Officer in delivering system objectives. Lead the day-to-day management of the LMNS, ensuring effective delivery of agreed priorities, work programmes and transformation initiatives across maternity and neonatal services. Oversee the development, delivery and monitoring of the LMNS annual operational plan, ensuring alignment with national maternity and neonatal policy, local priorities and system strategy. Be accountable for financial management of the LMNS, including budget setting, financial planning, monitoring expenditure, securing value for money and ensuring compliance with financial governance requirements.
Main duties of the job
Provide senior operational leadership for the LMNS, supporting Clinical Leaders and the SRO to deliver system objectives. Lead day-to-day management of the LMNS, ensuring effective delivery of agreed priorities, work programmes and transformation initiatives across perinatal services.
Oversee development, delivery and monitoring of LMNS annual operational plan, ensuring alignment with national policy, system strategy and local priorities. Be accountable for LMNS financial management, including budget setting, financial planning, monitoring expenditure and ensuring value for money and compliance with governance requirements. Chair the relevant LMNS operational committee, providing assurance on quality, workforce, finance and delivery risks.
Lead and develop the LMNS programme team, including supervision, appraisal, workforce planning and wellbeing. Manage delivery of complex system-wide programmes and projects, ensuring robust governance, risk management and reporting.
Build effective relationships with provider trusts, the ICB, commissioners, local authorities, third-sector partners and regional and national bodies. Ensure appropriate governance and reporting, including preparation of papers for Boards and assurance forums.
Represent the LMNS at senior system, regional and national meetings as required. Ensure equality, diversity, inclusion and population health principles are embedded across LMNS activity, upholding NHS and host organisation values and policies.
About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Parkview Clinic is a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service Mental Health (CAMHS) facility in Moseley, for young people aged 11-18 years who require admission due to significant psychiatric difficulties.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Job description Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Education to Masters level or equivalent experience. Leadership or Management qualification. Evidence of personal and professional development.
Knowledge & Nature of Experience Essential
Demonstrable extensive experience and achievement as a senior manager within an NHS organisation managing services or specialities Understanding of relevant healthcare and perinatal agenda and national direction of travel Experience of leading cross site internal and external incidents Experience of effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholders An excellent understanding of effective systems of governance and the management of clinical and non-clinical risks. Significant experience of managing NHS Targets and performance Experience of the management of complex projects. Experience of successfully leading and developing teams.
Analytical and Judgement Skills Essential
Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change Demonstrates professional and personal credibility and integrity and is a respected leader. Able to take difficult and challenging decisions that support strategic aims and long term vision. Skilled in negotiation and influencing techniques including the ability to challenge and reality test others' positions constructively Ability to interpret national and local guidelines and to interpret and act upon guidance from NHS or Professional bodies. Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of flexible and creative options to address them
Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge Essential
Highly developed problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands Lead a diverse and multi-function/ multi professional team of successfully. Bring a fresh perspective. Ability to motivate people to transform health outcomes and service improvement. Strong interpersonal, communication and facilitation skills. Experience of building staff capacity and capability. Experience of working across partnerships. Ability to use IT in all aspects of the role. Ability to prioritise, delegate and meet challenging deadlines. Demonstrate the ability to create constructive and customer focused teams across the organisation. Ability to hold others to account Experience of implementing a range of people management processes including attendance, grievance, conduct and performance management Experience of leading and managing cost efficiency schemes
Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes Essential
Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales with competing demands Flexible across the various Trust locations Strong team working with collaborative leadership style. Team working and personal integrity. Team player with 'can do' attitude. Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required
Other Requirements Essential
Ability to have frequent involvement (both direct and indirect) in emotionally distressing process such as managing significant change performance management, complex disciplinary, grievance and appeal procedures as well as responding to complaints Ability to understand, challenge and prioritise complex and often competing IT Projects or Service developments.
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.
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Employer details Employer name Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address Vincent Drive, Birmingham Women's Hospital
Vincent Drive
Edgbaston
B15 2TG
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://bwc.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)