Maternity Commissioner in Eastleigh

NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board is seeking an experienced and motivated Maternity Commissioner to join our Nursing, Quality and Improvement team. This is an exciting opportunity to influence the future of maternity and neonatal services across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, working within a complex and evolving healthcare system focused on improving outcomes, reducing inequalities, and delivering high‑quality care for women, babies and families. The role is offered on a 30‑hour basis and includes agile working, with a minimum expectation of regular office presence and system‑wide engagement across provider and partner organisations.

What We Offer

• Flexible and agile working arrangements
• Opportunity to influence maternity and neonatal transformation at system level
• A supportive and collaborative team environment
• NHS Pension Scheme and employee benefits package

Main duties of the job:

• The postholder will lead and support the commissioning of maternity and neonatal services across Hampshire and Isle of Wight.
• The role includes working closely with provider trusts, Local Maternity and Neonatal providers, NHS England, service users, primary care, public health and wider system stakeholders.
• You will play a key role in ensuring that maternity and neonatal services deliver the strategic objectives of Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB in the following areas:
• Improved personalised neighbourhood care
• Greater Prevention
• Smarter use of technology and data
• Thriving Workforce
• The role includes oversight of:
• Service transformation and improvement
• System governance and escalation processes
• Commissioning intentions and pathways
• Equity and personalised care initiatives
• Stakeholder and service‑user engagement
• Performance monitoring and contractual oversight

We are looking for someone with:

• Experience within maternity, neonatal, commissioning, and quality improvement environments.
• Understanding of NHS maternity and neonatal policy.
• Experience of working collaboratively across organisational boundaries.
• The ability to manage complex operational and strategic priorities.
• Excellent communication, influencing and relationship‑building skills.
• A compassionate, inclusive and improvement‑focused leadership style.
• Commissioning or operational leadership experience is welcomed.

About us:

We offer excellent employment opportunities to new and existing staff. We aim to be a model employer by embedding best HR practice and to support new ways of working. We pride ourselves on offering good working conditions, job security, lifelong learning, fair pay and benefits, staff involvement and a balance between work and personal life. We enjoy a forward‑thinking and innovative culture and our vision is to have healthy people, living healthy lives in healthy communities. We understand the only way to deliver this is to have the right people with the right skills.

We offer the following benefits and services to staff:

• 27 days paid minimum holiday and bank holiday entitlement
• Sick pay policy
• Occupational health services including staff counselling services
• Flexible working and family‑friendly policies
• Flexible retirement and retirement vouchers

Successful candidates will be subject to a six‑month probationary period.

Job responsibilities:

• Lead and support commissioning and service improvement across HIOW maternity and neonatal services.
• Drive local commissioning agendas to ensure services meet population needs, alongside improving health inequalities.
• System collaboration across the HIOW geography, including Hampshire, Southampton, Isle of Wight, and Portsmouth with clinicians, managers, public health, local authorities and voluntary sector partners.
• Champion engagement and co‑production to shape and deliver impactful safety, quality and improvement.
• Develop and implement commissioning strategies, ensuring alignment with national and local system priorities and goals.

Person Specification

Qualifications and/or experience:

• Highly developed specialist knowledge of commissioning and health service management, underpinned by theory and experience, acquired through a Master’s degree (or equivalent level experience).
• Commissioning qualification and/or specialist knowledge across range of procedures, underpinned by theory.
• Specialist knowledge of health service management, including organisational change, service redesign and workforce transformation, developed to Master’s level or equivalent through substantial experience.

Skills and abilities:

• Experience of supporting initiatives/service changes which cross organisational boundaries.
• Experience of managing own workload.
• Experience of setting up new systems and processes for organisations or functions.
• Effective team working.
• Financial systems (e.g., monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement).
• Demonstrated capability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
• Ability to work under pressure in a busy working environment and ability to multi‑task.
• Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.

Knowledge:

• Understanding of Confidentiality and Data Protection Act.
• Knowledge of NHS issues.

Communication and interpersonal skills:

• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
• Clear communicator with excellent writing, data entry and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear information/instructions to staff and service users.
• Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.

Analytical and problem‑solving skills:

• Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decisions.
• Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long‑term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.

IT and digital literacy:

• Ability to move between details and the bigger picture.
• Self‑motivated to embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop.
• Excellent knowledge of IT systems and software programmes such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.

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.

£57,528 to £64,750 a year, pro rata.