Maternity Commissioner
Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB (104)
Eastleigh, SO50 5PB
Salary
£57,528 to £64,750
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
1 September 2026
1 days left
Job description
Please note this organisation does not hold a sponsorship licence, we regret to inform you that we are unable to consider applications from individual...
The postholder will lead and support the commissioning of maternity and neonatal services across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. The role includes working closely with provider trusts, Local Maternity and Neonatal providers, NHS England, service users, primary care, public health and wider system stakeholders.
You will play a key role in ensuring that maternity and neonatal services to deliver the strategic objectives of Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB in:
1. Improved personalised neighbourhood care
2. Greater Prevention
3. Smarter use of technology and data
4. Better value
5. Thriving Workforce
The role includes oversight of
Service transformation and improvement,
System governance and escalation processes,
Commissioning intentions and pathways,
Equity and personalised care initiatives,
Stakeholder and service-user engagement,
Performance monitoring and contractual oversight,
We are looking for someone with
Experience within maternity, neonatal, commissioning, and quality improvement environments.
Understanding of NHS maternity and neonatal policy.
Experience of working collaboratively across organisational boundaries.
The ability to manage complex operational and strategic priorities.
Excellent communication, influencing and relationship-building skills.
A compassionate, inclusive and improvement-focused leadership style.
Candidates with commissioning or operational leadership experience are welcomed.
Working closely with the Associate Director for Maternity and Neonatal, you will:
Lead and support commissioning and service improvement across HIOW maternity and neonatal services.
Drive local commissioning agendas to ensure services meet population needs, alongside improving health inequalities.
System collaboration across the HIOW geography including Hampshire, Southampton, Isle of Wight, and Portsmouth with clinicians, managers, public health, local authorities, and voluntary sector partners.
Champion engagement and co-production to shape and deliver impactful safety, quality and improvement.
You will play a key role in developing and implementing commissioning strategies, ensuring alignment with national and local system priorities and goals.
We offer excellent employment opportunities to new and existing staff. We aim to be a model employer by embedding best HR practice and to support new ways of working.
We pride ourselves on offering good working conditions, job security, lifelong learning, fair pay and benefits, staff involvement and a balance between work and personal life.
We enjoy a forward thinking and innovative culture and our vision is to have healthy people, living healthy lives in healthy communities. We understand the only way to deliver this is to have the right people with the right skills.
Here is a summary of some of the benefits and services which are on offer to staff:
27 days paid minimum holiday and bank holiday entitlement
NHS pension scheme
Sick pay policy
Occupational health services including staff counselling services
Flexible working and family friendly policies
Flexible retirement and retirement vouchers
Health Service Discounts - offers for stores, travel, equipment etc.
Successful candidates will be subject to a six-month probationary period.
Qualifications and/ or experience
Essential
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of commissioning and health service management, underpinned by theory and experience, acquired through a Master's degree (or equivalent level experience).
- Commissioning qualification and/or specialist knowledge across range of procedures, underpinned by theory.
- Specialist knowledge of health service management, including organisational change, service redesign and workforce transformation, developed to Master's level or equivalent through substantial experience.
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Experience of supporting initiatives/service changes which cross organisational boundaries.
- Experience of managing own workload.
- Experience of setting up new systems and processes for organisations or functions.
- Effective team working.
- Financial Systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement.
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Ability to work under pressure in a busy working environment and able to multi-task.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of Confidentiality and Data Protection Act.
- Knowledge of NHS issues.
Communication and interpersonal skills
Essential
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Clear communicator with excellent writing, data entry and presentation skills: capable of constructing and delivering clear information/ instructions to staff and service users.
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
Analytical and problem-solving skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
IT and digital literacy
Essential
- Ability to move between details and the bigger picture.
- Self-motivated to embrace change, viewing it an opportunity to learn and develop.
- Excellent knowledge of IT systems and software programmes such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
18 August 2026
Last checked
20 August 2026
Salary, closing date and description are taken from the employer's advert. The original advert always takes precedence.
About the employer
NHS organisation
This listing was structured from NHS Jobs. Vacancy details and the application process remain the responsibility of the original source.
Similar roles
Explore related