Director of Midwifery and Children's Services

• Provide strategic leadership for Midwifery, Neonatal, Children's, Public Health Nursing, Gynaecology and CAMHS services.
• Lead the development and implementation of long-term service strategies and transformation programmes.
• Ensure the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality patient care across all services within the portfolio.
• Provide professional leadership and assurance for nursing and midwifery standards across the Division.
• Lead quality governance, risk management, safeguarding, complaints and incident management processes.
• Develop and deliver workforce, recruitment and retention strategies to support sustainable services.
• Manage substantial budgets and resources, ensuring value for money and financial stewardship.
• Build effective partnerships with Health Boards, Local Authorities, Welsh Government, educational institutions and external stakeholders.
• Promote a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, research and learning.
• Represent the Health Board regionally and nationally on matters relating to nursing, midwifery and children's services.

Essential

• Educated to Masters' Degree Level or equivalent level of work experience
• Registered Midwife with current NMC Registration
• Highly specialised and in-depth professional knowledge and experience from a range of midwifery and nursing disciplines across the services of the Health Board
• Evidence of strong and recent Continuous Professional Development
• Highly relevant specialise clinical knowledge relating to sphere or responsibilities
• Clear understanding of the concept and working arrangements of diverse clinical areas
• Extensive in-depth knowledge and understanding of a range of issues across the NHS and NHS patient agenda
• High level knowledge of all current issues related to professional midwifery and nursing practice.
• Has a good understanding of research and can demonstrate how research has influenced their practice.
• Evidence of highly developed knowledge of professional nursing standards and the governance of nursing practice across children's, family, community or related services

Essential

• Significant post registration experience at a very senior midwifery level
• Significant senior operational management experience across healthcare sectors
• Experience of developing and implementing governance frameworks to support service delivery and service charge
• Demonstratable experience delivering positive service improvement at a senior level
• Extensive experience of leading and successfully implementing service improvement/design programme in a multidisciplinary environment/across a range of services
• Developing and delivering governance systems including management and mitigation of risk
• Extensive experience of effective patient/public/customer involvement
• Proven ability to work across organisational boundaries, develop networks and alliances, project a vision and obtain ownership and commitment from stakeholders.
• Experience of managing conduct/professional issues
• Complaints management and experience of the litigation process
• Significant experience of providing senior professional leadership and assurance across services, or deonstrable experience of working at executive or divisional level with responsibility for professional nursing standards, workforce and quality governance.

Essential

• Highly developed analytical and problem solving skills, capable of interpreting and evaluating comlex, multi-faceted information, ability to summarise complex information, ability to make judgements and advise on the best course of action
• Ability to present highly complex/controversial information to a wide range of audiences, with differing levels of understanding, in a suitable format an with appropriate explanation
• Ability to influence, persuade and motivate others
• Ability to collaborate constructively with all key stakeholders (internal and external) and to crate the conditions for successful partnership working
• Ability to provide a clear vision for change which is a source of inspiration and motivation for others. Skilled in all aspects of managing change, including supporting staff
• Ability to monitor and act to improve and deliver performance and establish high levels of quality and to hold others to account for delivery
• Highly skilled in identifying opportunities for partnership working. managing on going stakeholder relationships and proving support to others int his area
• Highly-developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams across the Health Board.
• Be able to articulate the evolving strategy and vision for the future of nursing and be able to demonstrate the opportunities this will provide
• Ability to analyse complex clinical issues/problems, identify necessary action and make recommendations and follow these through
• Ability to demonstrate emotional leadership skills and apply to appropriate situations
• High level of work organisation. self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement and flexibility in approach
• Highly developed communication skills to resolve complex, high-impact situations in highly complex environments
• Standard keyboard skills, with familiarity with the Microsoft Office Suite

Essential

• Ability to travel throughout the health Board locality and across Wales/UK as required
• Flexible to the needs of the service
• Able to participate in on-call rota