Deputy Director of Midwifery

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in York is seeking a midwifery leader to oversee maternity services. You will ensure quality governance and safety while leading a team through significant improvements. This role requires strong leadership skills and the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders to enhance service delivery. Competitive compensation and opportunities for professional development are provided.

Benefits

Access to NHS Pension Scheme

27 to 33 days holiday

Generous relocation package

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Significant midwifery leadership experience essential.
• Ability to oversee quality and safety in maternity services.
• Proven skills in communication and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the midwifery team to improve maternity services.
• Monitor quality performance metrics and ensure compliance.
• Develop partnerships with key stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership in midwifery

Quality governance

Communication skills

Education

Relevant midwifery qualification

Management experience

Job description

An exceptional and exciting opportunity has arisen at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for a strong and inspirational midwifery leader who can bring insight and skills related to working in challenged maternity services, on a journey of significant improvement.

Our maternity services are undergoing an extensive improvement journey and working with all key stakeholders including our Maternity and Neonatal Partnership to develop sustainable improvements across both sites, but also in partnership with the Integrated care Board and our regional Maternity team.

This post will provide a unique and significant opportunity for the successful applicant to develop in their operational and strategic midwifery leadership career, supported by the Director of Midwifery.

You will work with all members of the senior midwifery leadership team, and in partnership with the Clinical Director, and Care Group (CG) Senior Triumvirate. The post-holder will have full oversight and provide expert senior midwifery leadership for the quality, safety and governance agenda for maternity and neonatal services, supporting the safe delivery of the maternity services. You will monitor and provide assurance of all key quality performance metrics, and all action plans resulting from timely delivery and response to all elements of robust good governance whilst ensuring clinical practice is in line with national evidence best practice and national standards.

With the Director of Midwifery, you will provide professional leadership on all Midwifery matters and provide professional advice on the development of community and hospital based maternity services.

The post-holder will advise on quality and clinical governance and support specialist members of the team to develop and implement policies designed to achieve high quality and safe healthcare including infection control, safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and equality and diversity.

You will proactively involve and work with the Matrons and Midwifery senior leadership Team as well as the MNVP and ICB to ensure they are fully aware of current practice initiatives, priorities and challenges. Using effective communication mechanisms, you will ensure all staff are well informed of changes in practice and service provision resulting from good governance process that inform service improvement and development.

As part of seeking to become more inclusive, we will consider requests for flexible working from the start of your employment. It may not be suitable for every role, but we will try and be supportive where we can. We would encourage you to speak to the recruiting manager named within this advert to discuss any requirements you may have.

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Please note that Volunteers and Bank only staff will not be charged.

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Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Please note, the selection processes at York & Scarborough Teaching Hospitals are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn't accurately reflect their skills. You will be required to acknowledge that you are aware of this before submitting your application.

Agile and Flexible Working

We are committed to helping all staff balance their work with other commitments and have recently launched our new Agile and Flexible Working policy to support this, entitling all staff to request flexible working from day one - for all posts. We encourage you to speak to the recruiting manager named within this advert to discuss any requirements you may have.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants.
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service).
• A generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully. If you would like to discuss a potential relocation package, please speak to the recruiting department/manager.
• A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave.
• Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme.
• NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme.
• An extensive range of learning and development opportunities.
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers.

For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer, please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages. All our employees have access to a free, confidential counselling and wellbeing support service. Our EAP is available 24/7, 365 days a year.

Relocation Package

The Trust offers a generous relocation package of 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully. If you would like to discuss relocation further, please speak to the recruiting manager at interview.

About Us and the Surrounding Area

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated in a fantastic part of the country that is home to two national parks, a beautiful coastline, and the city of York - consistently voted one of the best places to live in the UK. We provide a comprehensive range of acute hospital and specialist healthcare services for approximately 800,000 people living in and around York, North Yorkshire, North East Yorkshire and Ryedale - an area covering 3,400 square miles.

Our annual turnover is approaching £0.5bn. We manage eight hospital sites and have a workforce of around 10,000 staff working across our hospitals and in the community.

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