Director of Midwifery and Maternity Services

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust; St Leonards; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a Director of Midwifery and Maternity Services to provide professional leadership across maternity services. The role involves ensuring high-quality care and improving outcomes for women, babies, and families. The successful candidate will lead workforce planning and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to transform services. Competitive benefits include NHS pension scheme and support programs.

Benefits

NHS pension scheme

Onsite support services

Onsite nurseries

Qualifications

• Accountable for ensuring high-quality maternity care and improving outcomes.
• Expert advice to the Executive Team on maternity safety and performance.
• Lead workforce planning and promote psychological safety in the workplace.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership across maternity services to ensure safety and quality.
• Collaborate with obstetric and neonatal teams for service transformation.
• Monitor performance data to drive necessary improvements.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Clinical governance

Workforce planning

Compassionate leadership

Financial stewardship

Quality improvement

Job description

The Director of Midwifery and Maternity Services is the Trust's most senior midwifery professional, providing strategic, professional and operational leadership across all maternity services.

The postholder is accountable for ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, compassionate and equitable maternity care, with a strong focus on improving outcomes, experience and safety for women, babies and their families. This includes leadership of national maternity safety programmes, continuous improvement and assurance against regulatory and statutory requirements.

Working as a key member of the senior leadership team, the Director of Midwifery and Maternity Services will collaborate closely with obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, anaesthetic and corporate colleagues, as well as system partners, to lead service transformation and workforce sustainability across the maternity pathways.

• Act as the Trust's professional lead for Midwifery, setting and upholding standards of practice, education and professional development.
• Develop and deliver a clear strategic vision for maternity services aligned with Trust, ICB and national priorities.
• Provide expert advice to the Executive Team and Trust Board on maternity safety, quality and performance.
• Be accountable for the quality, safety, outcomes and experience of maternity services.
• Lead delivery and assurance of national maternity programmes.
• Ensure robust clinical governance systems, including incident management, learning reviews, audit, risk management and quality improvement.
• Promote a strong culture of openness, learning and psychological safety.
• Provide senior oversight of maternity services delivery, ensuring services are safe, effective and resilient.
• Lead workforce planning, recruitment and retention strategies.
• Champion compassionate leadership, staff wellbeing and inclusive working practices.
• Financial stewardship of maternity budgets and ensure delivery of financial plans.
• Monitor and respond to performance, quality and workforce data to drive improvements.
• Champion personalised, equitable and culturally competent care, addressing inequalities in outcomes and experience.
• Work in partnership with women, families, MNVP, LMNS and wider system partners, ensuring co-production is embedded in service design and improvement.
• Represent the Trust at regional and national forums as required.

A wide range of staff benefits are available to our staff including staff development, enrolment in the NHS pension scheme, auto-enrolment to our Temporary Workforce Service, access to onsite nurseries, staff restaurants and accommodation.

In addition to an internal Occupational Health department, all staff also have access to free psychological support through our confidential Employee Assistance Programme. Onsite parking is available from only £50 a year.

There has never been a better time to join East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, submit your application today.

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Contacts

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kaia Vitler Job title: Divisional Director of Operations Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07779528184

Matthew Clark: Chief of Division

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