About this role
Job summary
NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is seeking an exceptional and highly motivated individual to provide strategic leadership, expert professional advice and system-wide influence across West Yorkshire. The Associate Director of Midwifery & Quality provides senior system leadership across maternity and neonatal services within the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (WY ICB). They provide specialist expertise to the ICB, executive directors, commissioning manager, provider organisations, clinical leaders, and regional/national maternity programmes, ensuring policy, regulatory compliance, performance standards, and system wide improvement are achieved to ensure quality and safety are an integral part of all commissioning activities and service improvement initiatives.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for the on-going development, implementation and monitoring of plans and policies in relation to the quality assurance, clinical governance, service user experience agenda in relation to the duties of the ICB. Support the Executive Nurse Director and Deputy Directors of Nursing and Quality actively engaging with healthcare professionals across maternity and neonatal services to promote clinical engagement and involvement in commissioning and contracting for quality improvement. Inform the strategic direction for the ICB in respect of the systems and processes for Commissioning for Quality Outcomes and the management of clinical governance in line with national policy and local requirements, in relation to maternity and neonatal services.
Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the quality assurance agenda to enable sustained improvements to be made at the interface with partner organisations. Network effectively to ensure good practice, new ideas and lessons are learned and shared. Deal with conflict and disagreement as it arises with peers, contractors, clinicians and members of the public in a prompt and assertive way, ensuring that the ICB values and reputation are not compromised.
About us
We are proud of what we have achieved as a Health and Care Partnership since our establishment in 2016, and as an Integrated Care Board (ICB) within that Partnership since July 2022.
Our ICB has four core purposes
- Improving outcomes in peoples health and healthcare
- Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access
- Enhancing productivity and value for money
- Supporting broader social and economic development.
We aim to make a difference to peoples lives by supporting providers and local health systems to further improve the way they deliver care for people and communities. Our staff are highly professional with the expertise, skills and knowledge to make a lasting impact across the NHS, and they are vital to the ICBs success.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full list of duties and responsibilities for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications and experience
Essential
- Registered Midwife with current NMC registration
- Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent level of
- experience
- In depth knowledge of the maternity landscape including policy, reviews and scrutiny
- Management / leadership qualification or significant relevant equivalent experience.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Experience of working across systems with a knowledge of the relationship between NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- Experience of incident investigation and management
Skills and competences
Essential
- Professional credibility in field of previous practice
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills- ability to communicate highly complex, contentious and/or sensitive issues or information to senior managers, external agencies.
- Teaching and presentation skills
- Facilitation, motivational and negotiation skills
- Advanced problem solving and decision making skills with the use of analysis and interpretation of highly complex information to decide on the best way forward for the ICB
Knowledge and understanding
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience with experience of working in a variety of settings across the health economy with recent experience of working at a senior level within a healthcare environment
- Knowledge of the current NHS quality improvement and patient safety agenda
- A track record of leading change or taking a key role in service improvements within a clinical setting
- Recent experience of setting and monitoring quality standards and outcome measures to drive continuous quality improvement.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
Address
NHS West Yorkshire ICB
Scorex House West
1 Bolton Road
BRADFORD
West Yorkshire
BD1 4AS
United Kingdom
Employer's website
http://www.westyorkshire.icb.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)