Clinical Lead - Neonatal Consultant

Nhs Central East Icb; Shefford; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Job summary

NHS Central East ICB is recruiting an obstetric and neonatal consultant to join the Senior Leadership Team on an 18-month fixed-term contract. The role focuses on leading safety, quality, and transformation across the perinatal pathway, providing expert clinical advice to the ICB and providers.

The post requires consultant-level obstetric or neonatal leadership, current UK registration, and the ability to align clinical insight with system-wide commissioning and service delivery.

Qualifications

• Current professional registration and senior clinical expertise in obstetrics or neonatal care.
• Consultant-level experience or equivalent senior clinical leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior clinical leadership across the perinatal pathway.
• Advise the ICB and support providers on best practice and service change.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Obstetrics expertise

Neonatal expertise

UK registration

Job description

Job summary

An exciting leadership opportunity in maternity transformation

Are you an experienced, dynamic, and enthusiastic clinical leader, who is passionate about driving safer, more personalised care for women and families? Do you have experience working at a system or regional level, with a proven ability to lead and give technical advice across all function of the ICB. Ensuring that strategic and operational decisions are underpinned by robust clinical evidence, governance and population health priorities.

We are seeking an obstetric and neonatal consultant to join our ICB, Senior Leadership Team on a fixed-term 18-months contract. This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly motivated individual to play a pivotal role in aligning clinical insight with system transformation, commissioning, quality improvement, and service delivery.

Main duties of the job

About the role:

This role will support CE ICB to provide senior clinical leadership that supports quality, safety, and transformation across the perinatal pathway. Perinatal transformation will be led by the Quality Improvement & Patient Team. This role will include advising the ICB and supporting individual providers when appropriate. This role will play a pivotal role in supporting understanding of best practice, benchmarking current position and advising on change. This role offers the opportunity to champion the needs of families across central East community.

About us

We are committed to promoting equal opportunities to achieve equity of access, experience and outcomes and to recognising and valuing people's differences. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity; we see this as a strength and part of our founding mission, values and behaviours. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers patient outcomes.

We are committed to creating the best place to work, where your contribution is valued, your wellbeing is supported and all our colleagues can reach their full potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of their protected characteristic. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone, including making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition and support with the recruitment process for people with lived experience.

We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles.

We operate a Carer friendly working environment that is supportive and inclusive. We actively encourage Carers to self-identify themselves.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and commit to shortlisting suitable applicants who meet the essential criteria for an interview. Please inform us of any adjustments you may require.

Job responsibilities

For further information on this role please see the job description and person specification attached

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Applicants must demonstrate current professional registration and senior clinical expertise in obstetrics or neonatal care, with consultant-level experience or equivalent senior clinical leadership experience.

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name: NHS Central East ICB

Address: Priory House, Monks Walk, Shefford, SG17 5TQ, United Kingdom

Employer's website: https://www.centraleast.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Clinical lead - Perinatal

Felitta Burney-Nicol

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