Clinical Lead - Obstetric Consultant

Central East Integrated Care Board; Shefford; On-site; GBP 114,000 - 151,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Carer friendly environment

Disability Confident Employer

Job summary

Central East Integrated Care Board is seeking an obstetric and neonatal consultant to join the Senior Leadership Team on a fixed-term 18-month contract. The role focuses on leadership for maternity transformation, quality improvement and service redesign across the perinatal pathway.

The post involves aligning clinical insight with system transformation, commissioning and governance to improve outcomes for families across Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and

Qualifications

• Current professional registration with GMC or equivalent.
• Senior clinical expertise in obstetrics or neonatal care.
• Experience leading complex, system-wide quality improvement or service redesign.
• Ability to interpret clinical, performance and population health data for strategic decisions.
• Strong communication and influencing skills across diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and operational oversight to deliver high-quality, safe, equitable and sustainable perinatal services.
• Lead system integration and collaborate across organisations to improve pathways and population health.
• Drive quality improvement, reduce unwarranted variation and ensure alignment with national and local priorities.
• Support place-based delivery and effective use of resources, including workforce and finances.
• Champion the needs of families across the Central East community.

Skills

Senior clinical leadership

Quality improvement

System-wide transformation

Data interpretation

Communication

Partnership working

Strategy development

Inclusive leadership

Health inequalities focus

Job description

Main area Obstetric Consultant Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract 18 months (Fixed term) Hours Part time - 0.1 sessions per week (1PA = 4 hours per week) Job ref 644-CE101-A

Employer Central East Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site Priory House Town Shefford Salary £113,565 - £150,569 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 22/11/2026 23:59

Clinical Lead - Obstetric Consultant

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

We are Central East ICB, the new organisationentrusted with serving more than 3.5 million people across Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and Hertfordshire.

We are responsible for making sure that the NHS can continue to support our community – now, and in the future. Everything we do will be guided by our core purpose: to do what best serves the population of this area.

We promise to focus on what makes the biggest difference to people’s lives – acting earlier to help prevent illness and detect disease and making it easier for our community to get the health care they need, closer to home, whenever that’s possible.

Read about our priorities in our strategy document, Our Way .

Job overview

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. If so, we would love to hear from you.

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will provide strategic leadership and operational oversight to deliver high-quality, safe, equitable and sustainable services across the system. They will lead system integration, fostering collaboration across organisations to improve pathways, outcomes and population health. The role is responsible for driving quality improvement, reducing unwarranted variation and ensuring services meet national and local priorities. They will act as a steward of resources, ensuring effective use of workforce and financial investment, while supporting place-based delivery that addresses local needs and inequalities. The post holder will maintain robust governance, accountability and performance management arrangements, ensuring delivery of agreed objectives, assurance requirements and system outcomes

Person specification

• 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.
• evidence of leading complex, system-wide quality improvement, transformation or service redesign with measurable impact strong knowledge of maternity or neonatal quality, safety, clinical governance, risk and relevant national standards
• experience of interpreting complex clinical, performance and population health data to inform strategic decisions
• communication and influencing skills, with the ability to convey complex issues clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences
• evidence of effective partnership working and influencing across providers, commissioners, regional or national bodies and wider system partners
• experience of developing or implementing strategy, policy, commissioning priorities or business plans
• and evidence of values-led, inclusive leadership, political awareness and sound judgement in complex or sensitive situations
• demonstrable commitment to reducing health inequalities, improving outcomes and incorporating service‑user voice
• Proven ability to create environments where people from all backgrounds feel respected, valued, and able to contribute fully

Please Note:

• Successfully shortlisted applicants will be contacted by email with an invitation to interview.
• Please note that we do not pay interview expenses, all costs are incurred by the candidate.

Notes on completion of applications:

• All reference requests will be made to your employer/previous employers' HR Department, covering the previous 3 years of activity.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.
• All eligible staff will need to have gained clearance through a standard/enhanced DBS check prior to working.
• All posts are subject to a probationary period.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.