220119 Clinical Service Manager Maternity Services (EG)

NHS National Services Scotland; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join NHS Scotland and help lead Maternity Services within the Women & Children's Directorate. This management role requires a dynamic leader with extensive experience in operational clinical services, ensuring the delivery of safe and patient-centred care. You'll work closely with senior management to foster service improvement and quality management.

Qualifications

• Experience managing operational clinical services.
• Extensive staff and financial management experience.
• Experience in service improvement and quality improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead portfolio of work in Maternity Services.
• Ensure safe and effective patient-centred care.
• Manage performance of Maternity Services.

Skills

Leadership

Interpersonal Skills

Analytical Thinking

Negotiation

Change Management

Job description

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

This post has been created following a recent management re-structure to provide additional management roles and the development of new service area portfolios across Women’s Services.

Reporting to the General Manager and working closely with the Clinical Director and Clinical Midwifery Managers, the post holder will lead a portfolio of work in support of acute and community-based scheduled and unscheduled care, ensuring Maternity Services continues to deliver safe, effective, and patient-centred care.

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated, and forward-thinking individual to join our team.

As a member of the Women & Children's Directorate leadership team, reporting directly to the General Manager, you will be responsible for the management, leadership, and performance management of Maternity Services.

NHS Lothian Women’s Services provide secondary and tertiary services, supporting the delivery of local, regional, and national patient care.

You will have experience managing and delivering operational clinical services, service improvement, and quality improvement, including extensive staff and financial management experience.

Leadership skills are essential, as are excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to think analytically, good influencing and negotiation skills, and the ability to deliver change.

Hours of work are: 37 hours, Monday to Friday.

Informal enquiries should be directed to Sam Thomson, PA to Anne Milburn, General Manager, at 0131 312 0747 or [e-mail].

Interviews will be held in person on TBA.