This fixed-term senior leadership post for 12 months sits within maternity and neonatal services at George Eliot Hospital, an acute trust. The postholder shapes service strategy, governance and partnerships across the local maternity and neonatal system, and supports workforce development and national policy implementation. The role is 37.5 hours a week and includes a place on the senior midwifery on-call rota for out-of-hours cover. Candidates must be registered midwives holding a Master's-level qualification.
What the job involves
- Lead maternity and neonatal services, championing safety, quality and personalised care
- Contribute to strategic priorities for maternity and neonatal services
- Strengthen partnerships across the local maternity and neonatal system
- Help transform services to meet the needs of diverse communities
- Lead workforce development, fostering learning, inclusion and collaboration
- Drive innovation and continuous improvement
- Build a culture where colleagues feel valued, empowered and supported
- Ensure robust governance, embedding learning from incidents and complaints
- Build internal and external relationships with public health, health visiting, safeguarding, social care, mental health services and service users
- Assist the DoM in interpreting national policy and supporting the trust's response to maternity transformation initiatives
- Take part in the senior midwifery on-call rota out of hours
- Keep the voices of women, babies and families at the heart of decisions
What’s required
Qualifications
- Master's degree or equivalent
- Further academic or personal development, and formal management or leadership training
Registration & licences
- NMC registration as a midwife, with evidence of CPD in line with revalidation
Experience
- Senior-level leadership of change initiatives
- Senior operational service management in an acute hospital, including staff management, financial management and business planning
- Recruitment, retention, workforce planning and capacity management
- Managing and developing teams effectively
- Involvement in child safeguarding cases and difficult pre- and post-antenatal care issues
Skills & knowledge
- Understanding of integrated governance and how to implement it in practice
- Knowledge of neonatal services, and of education and research in an acute trust
- Up-to-date clinical expertise and current maternity and neonatal policy and practice
- Clear, accurate written and verbal reporting, with well-developed presentation skills
- Leadership, interpersonal and networking skills; able to motivate other, chair meetings and influence senior clinicians and managers; team player
- Critical analysis, problem-solving and political astuteness; patient focus; assertive, tenacious and flexible in a busy environment with tight deadlines
Checks & eligibility
- Satisfactory enhanced DBS check
Other
- Takes part in the senior midwifery on-call rota out of hours
Nice to have
- Experience of working strategically at regional and national level
What’s offered
- 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, with buying and selling of annual leave
- On-site nursery
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexible working
- In-house training and development
- Subsidised restaurant
- Tranquillity garden
- Subsidised on-site parking
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
