Deputy Chief Midwifery Officer

This is an exciting opportunity to join the national team as Deputy Chief Midwifery Officer.

You will work with the Chief Midwifery Officer, her wider team, the Maternity and Neonatal programme team and Specialised Commissioning colleagues providing strategic leadership and professional guidance across all areas of maternity care and policy. Coupled with your clinical expertise and knowledge, you’ll use your experience and skills to build excellent relationships with stakeholders across the health system to develop midwifery leadership to support a culture of safety, compassion and equity in maternity services and to realise the ambitions outlined in the Three-Year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services.

We are focussed on collaborative, multi-disciplinary and compassionate working to deliver sustainable improvements across maternity and neonatal services.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing strategic professional midwifery leadership and expert guidance on the commissioning and provision of safer, personalised and more equitable maternity services.
• Clinical leadership of the strategy and delivery of the Maternity and Neonatal Programme (MNP), and long-term workforce plan.
• Supporting the development, growth and value of the midwifery and the support staff workforce, including leadership capacity and capability across the NHS in England.

The successful candidate will hold current midwifery registration and be able to demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of current maternity policy, NHS systems and political acumen. You will be able to demonstrate significant successful leadership at senior level with a proven track record of change leadership and delivery. You will have created a positive workplace culture, built relationships and worked with service users to improve services and tackled inequalities in maternity care.

About us

In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England.

The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care.
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.

Job responsibilities

You can find further details about the job in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

Person Specification

Values and behaviours

• Championing women and families at all times, particularly in relations to matters relating to equality, personalisation of care, and the importance of hearing service user voices in our work.

Skills

• Influencing and negotiating skills, across departmental and organisational boundaries.

Experience

• Operating at a senior level in a politically sensitive environment.
• Clinical leadership at system, Board and team levels.
• Delivery of large and/or high-profile programmes.

Qualifications

• Current UK NMC Midwifery qualification and registration without sanction.
• Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.

£113,557 to £129,443 a year (inclusive of London Weighting)

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