Regional Chief Midwife

• Provide strategic and professional leadership for maternity and neonatal services across the South West region.
• Act as a regional ambassador and advocate for women, babies and families, promoting safe, personalised and equitable care.
• Lead the development and delivery of regional maternity and neonatal strategies, improvement programmes and delivery plans.
• Work collaboratively with Integrated Care Boards, provider organisations, Local Maternity and Neonatal Systems and wider partners to drive quality improvement and service transformation.
• Provide expert clinical and professional advice to senior leaders across the health and care system.
• Support delivery of national maternity and neonatal priorities, including safety, quality, workforce and health inequalities programmes.
• Lead regional oversight and assurance of maternity and neonatal services, identifying opportunities for improvement and sharing best practice.
• Build strong relationships with national, regional and local stakeholders to support innovation, collaboration and improvement.
• Represent the South West region at national and regional meetings, forums and professional networks.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning, safety, improvement and compassionate leadership across maternity and neonatal services.

Essential

• In depth additional expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time in Contemporary leadership and knowledge of clinical maternity services that has delivered clear and measurable improvements for service users and the teams that support them
• In-depth specialist knowledge and expertise acquired through significant experience in maternity services, with subject matter expertise across key areas of maternity care, including national policy, strategy, service transformation, quality improvement, safety and professional leadership.
• A senior midwife with expertise in driving maternity service quality improvement and transformation across both local trusts and the wider health economy
• Ability to influence senior leaders (e.g., LMS and ICS chairs, CEO's or other board-level colleagues. This may include, board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
• Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry

Essential

• Have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement with stakeholders
• Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England, CQC, NHSR, HEE, PHE and individual provider and commissioning organisations
• Commissioning expertise in commissioning of safe maternity services Extensive knowledge of quality assurance processes locally, regionally and nationally
• Extensive knowledge of clinical governance processes and how they contribute to safe maternity services
• Excellent professional strategic networks and an understanding of how these can be used to improve maternity care

Essential

• Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do. Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
• Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda
• Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation
• Knowledge of social inclusion & health inequalities and can articulate the benefits of the WRES standards
• Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness