Senior Clinical Quality Manager
NHS England
Leeds, LS1 4APView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£66,582 to £77,368
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
4 November 2026
14 days leftJob description
Are you an experienced senior midwifery leader with a passion for improving quality, safety and outcomes for women, babies and families? We are seekin...
What you'll be doing
- Leading quality surveillance and assurance activities across maternity and perinatal services.
- Supporting quality improvement programmes and targeted interventions within providers and ICBs.
- Identifying early indicators of quality concerns and supporting organisations to implement sustainable improvement plans.
- Analysing and interpreting complex quality data and intelligence to inform decision-making.
- Preparing strategic briefings and reports for senior leaders and stakeholders.
- Working collaboratively across NHS England, Integrated Care Systems, providers and wider partners.
- Deputising for the Regional Chief Midwife or Deputy Regional Chief Midwife when required.
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife with NMC
- Degree level qualification or equivalent in relevant discipline
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Experience
Essential
- Experience at a senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
- Experience of budgetary responsibility, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment
Skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- bility to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery
- Strong internal and external communication skills in a politically sensitive environment Highly developed communication skills with the capability to analyse, review and make sense of complex, sensitive or contentious information
- Demonstrable experience developing, managing and motivating teams/individuals to ensure succes
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
21 October 2026
Last checked
21 October 2026
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