Deputy Chief Midwifery Officer

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Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the national team as Deputy Chief Midwifery Officer.

You will work with the Chief Midwifery Officer, her wider team, the Maternity and Neonatal programme team and Specialised Commissioning colleagues providing strategic leadership and professional guidance across all areas of maternity care and policy. Coupled with your clinical expertise and knowledge, you'll use your experience and skills to build excellent relationships with stakeholders across the health system to develop midwifery leadership to support a culture of safety, compassion and equity in maternity services and to realise the ambitions outlined in the Three-Year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services.

We are focussed on collaborative, multi-disciplinary and compassionate working to deliver sustainable improvements across maternity and neonatal services.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing strategic professional midwifery leadership and expert guidance on the commissioning and provision of safer, personalised and more equitable maternity services.
• Clinical leadership of the strategy and delivery of the Maternity and Neonatal Programme (MNP), and long-term workforce plan.
• Supporting the development, growth and value of the midwifery and support staff workforce, including leadership capacity and capability across the NHS in England.

The successful candidate will hold current midwifery registration and be able to demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of current maternity policy, NHS systems and political acumen. You will be able to demonstrate significant successful leadership at a senior level with a proven track record of change leadership and delivery. You will have created a positive workplace culture, built relationships and worked with service users to improve services and tackled inequalities in maternity care.

Person specification Values and behaviours

• Championing women and families at all times, particularly in relation to matters relating to equality, personalisation of care, and the importance of hearing service user voices in our work.

Skills

• Influencing and negotiating skills, across departmental and organisational boundaries.

Experience

• Operating at a senior level in a politically sensitive environment.
• Clinical leadership at system, Board and team levels.
• Delivery of large and/or high-profile programmes.

Qualifications

• Current UK NMC Midwifery qualification and registration without sanction.
• Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in a specialist area.

Our commitments to you

We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We strive to ensure our people feel trusted, valued and empowered. We're passionate about nurturing and developing people. When you join us, we want you to grow and excel, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that. We welcome your talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

We welcome applications from disabled candidates. If you meet all the essential criteria, you will be guaranteed an interview.

If applying for this role on a secondment basis, please make sure you have obtained prior agreement from your current line manager to apply for this position.

Please note that we currently do not accept applications via recruitment agencies.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.