Senior Professional Advisor - Maternity and Neonatal @ Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (857)

Job summary

This is a brand new exciting post working across the whole of Humber and North Yorkshire ICB as part of the wider Nursing and Quality Team. We are looking for a highly experienced and inspirational leader to be the Senior Professional Advisor Maternity and Neonatal, working within the Clinical Leadership Business Unit, who holds responsibility for enhancing quality, safety and patient outcomes with maternity services. The role is a specialised healthcare professional who provides expert advice and guidance to improve patient care and outcomes across various healthcare settings by strong clinical commissioning input.

This is a strategic and enabling maternity leadership role which requires a honed skillset for systems leadership & systems transformation through strong clinical commissioning, learning, developing, and improving across the system.

The postholder will take a lead on being the Senior Maternity Professional Advisor for the health and care sector as it relates to ICB maternity and neonatal commissioned services, work collaboratively with the Directors of Nursing & Deputy Medical Directors on transforming clinical pathways for patient & service users leading to improved clinical commissioning which ultimately drives improvement.

The postholder brings a very high level of clinical Maternity expertise to the development of commissioning maternity services which are wrapped round neighbourhood teams and communities leading to improved outcomes and reduced inequalities.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will bring their unique professional maternity perspective, informed by their expertise and experience in health and social care to underpin the work of the ICB. The postholder will work collaboratively locally, regionally, and nationally on the issues relating to those in receipt of care in commissioned services, developing a deep understanding of the communities we serve.

The post holder will work autonomously, leading on the development, delivery, evaluation and oversight of the Maternity services within the ICB.

The post holder will firmly establish values-based professional practice across pathways, services, organisations, and systems, working with people and populations

and act as a system leader for the specialist area, directly influencing and shaping future provision of the ICB contracted services.

The post holder will work with the wider Maternity system networks and the business units of the ICB, Local Authority colleagues and clinical leaders from across the wider system, in developing the way that services and pathways are transformed and improved to enable better outcomes for those in receipt of care, address health inequalities and support market sustainability and growth of services.

The post holder will be part of a small team of other Senior Nursing Professional Advisors (for adults and children and young people) working very closely with the maternity commissioner and the Family Health Program of Care.

About us

NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the strategic commissioner of NHS services for a population of 1.7 million people. We plan and arrange services to meet our populations diverse health needs, focusing on improving health outcomes, reducing inequalities and making the best use of available resources. Our area reaches over 1,500 square miles and includes the cities of Hull and York and large rural areas across East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire.

Our role is to make sure health services work well and are of high quality. We also work to join up health and care services, improve the health and wellbeing of local people and reduce health inequalities across our area.

The ICB adopts a Purposeful Presence model as the default way of working. Subject to any reasonable adjustments that may be required, this means:

• Individual work is undertaken remotely and digitally in almost all Circumstances.
• Collaborative work is predominantly delivered through digital platforms.
• In-person working is reserved for situations where outcomes cannot be achieved effectively through digital means.

Contractual bases are determined by post category. This post is designated as: Agile Post

This means the appointed postholder may choose either Health House, Willerby or home as their contractual base (please note that the Purposeful Presence principles still apply if Health House is chosen)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Long-term strategic clinical leadership and work plan management of the Health & Care portfolio for Maternity services.

• 2. Providing highly specialist clinical and professional Maternity input into commissioning decisions to ensure integrated, joined up approach for the local populations recognising health and care needs.
• 3. Developing and overseeing delivery of quality improvement projects and training to support commissioned care providers across the geography
• 4. Proactively seek opportunities to influence and advocate integrated health and care solutions across the ICB and localities.
• 5. Working with academic partners and stakeholders to develop links with undergraduate programmes to develop Maternity workforce and other care development opportunities.
• 6. Work with universities and ICB research networks to embed research and participate in relevant research activity.
• 7. Explore opportunities for system investment and quality improvement in health and care to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for the population we serve
• 8. Identifying and seeking to address gaps in data that will impact on strategic and operational projects
• 9. Ensuring accurate and timely information is provided to relevant governance boards to ensure strategic aims can be recognised and met
• 10. To develop and contribute towards business plans and provide expert clinical Maternity advice and guidance
• 11. Maintain working relationships with providers and other stakeholders particularly including the Regional Neonatal ODN and Maternity Clinical Network.
• 12. Support quality improvement in Maternity services by working in partnership with stakeholders across the system.
• 13. To advise the HNY maternity services stakeholders on perceived areas of good practice relating to maternity and neonatal safety activities inside and outside HNY.
• 14. The post will be required to update and undertake multi organisational self-assessment audits for HNY maternity services and support maternity site visits.

Person Specification

Skills and Attributes

Essential

• Communication skills
• Strong leadership skills.
• Excellent communicator with exemplary writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences.
• Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks across the system.
• Ability to influence and persuade senior leaders and elected representatives with matters relating to health and care.
• Skills for communication with complex matters and difficult situations, requiring persuasion and influence.
• Conscientious and proven team worker with the ability to engage with people at all levels.
• Ability to adapt to change
• Analytical skills
• Ability to manage uncertainty and problem solve.
• Ability to analyse complex information and situations and develop a range of options.
• Planning skills
• Ability to work under pressure in a busy working environment and ability to multi-task.
• Plans and organizes a broad range of complex work, while adapting to changing circumstances.
• Autonomy/freedom to act
• Works independently. Self-prioritises conflicting demands, reviewing and adjusting priorities.
• Excellent team working skills.
• Ability to act as a strategic leader.
• Ability to use evidence base to develop and communicate policy positions.
• Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy.
• Ability to make decisions autonomously on difficult issues.
• General
• Commitment to equality and diversity
• Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation).
• Current experience of working in complex settings across multiple stakeholders.
• Experience of training staff, undertaking presentations.
• Able to build and sustain relationships at all levels, actively involving and engaging stakeholders at all levels.
• Knowledge of incident reporting / PSIRF and management /complaints processes.
• Excellent report writing skills Competent IT skills in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of Healthcare / Research Governance.
• Evidence of a commitment to own personal and professional development including maintaining professional registration.
• Capacity to reflect and learn from experience.
• Ability to travel to various sites within the local, regional economy and nationally as appropriate.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife
• Expert professional nursing and clinical knowledge and experience acquired through degree supplemented by specialist knowledge across maternity services, governance, strategic planning, patient safety and service improvement. The additional knowledge can be gained through additional qualifications, training, experience, short courses, to doctorate level or equivalent
• Masters' level or equivalent experience of working at a similar level in specialist health related area.
• Comprehensive knowledge of project management and understanding and application of Quality Improvement.
• Comprehensive understanding of the health & care environment and agenda Including the relationship between NHS, local authorities, government departments and the third sector.
• Knowledge of planning and strategic clinical commissioning in integrated care systems.
• Knowledge of financial budget setting and financial processes.
• Understanding of Confidentiality and Data Protection Act
• Member of relevant professional body

Desirable

• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
• Project management qualifications
• Continuous/Quality Improvement qualification

Experience

Essential

• Current experience at a senior level in a clinical facing role in either a commissioning or provider setting.
• Comprehensive experience in a quality / safety related role.
• Ability to analyse highly complex data, facts and situations and develop a range of options in relation to quality improvement.
• Previous experience of undertaking clinical audit and experience of data analysis and outcome management.
• Experience in research or evaluation or engagement with academics in public health research.
• Experience of patient safety programmes, root cause analysis and the participation in incident investigation / PSIRF.
• Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools.
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
• Ability to take decisions on difficult and contentious issues
• where there may be a number of courses of action.
• Ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
• Experience of writing reports and presenting at both committees and at Board level.
• Senior leadership experience
• Evidence of having successfully delivered programs in a social care setting.
• Experience of developing or delivering quality assurance and improvement within health & social care environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience in disseminating and summarising information with demonstrable impact.

Desirable

• Experience of working collaboratively with stakeholders on health & care programmes
• Experience of commissioning in the public sector.
• Experience of supporting service improvement, working in multi-agency health and social care system.
• Presentation at national/ regional events of work.

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

Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (857)

Address

Humber and North Yorkshire ICB

Health House

Grange Park Lane

Willerby

HU10 6DT

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://humberandnorthyorkshire.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)