St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Epsom and St Helier NHS HospitalsWe are delighted to offer the opportunity fo.....
St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Epsom and St Helier NHS Hospitals
We are delighted to offer the opportunity for an ambitious, strong senior midwifery leader to join our Group corporate nursing team working across Epsom and St Helier Hospital NHS Trust and St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We are a large multi-site Group based in Southwest London. The Group Director of Midwifery will be a highly visible, authoritative individual, who provides assurance to the Group Chief Nurse and DIPC that systems are in place and correct policies and procedures adhered to across the organisations to ensure safe and effective maternity care.
We have a strong track record in education and research for midwives and nurses and you will be joining a team who are passionate about maternity services and who are keen to build on our success.
The Group Director of Midwifery is a key clinical leader who will be responsible for the strategic leadership of the maternity service and ensuring the Group is compliant with related national statutory responsibilities.
The post holder will work closely with the Group Chief Nursing Officer/DIPC, Site Maternity Leadership teams, Site Leadership teams to develop the Maternity strategy.
As the Group Director of Midwifery, you will be the most senior midwife within the Trusts and play a key role at divisional and executive level to take our maternity services forward
So, if you are an advocate for high-quality and safe maternity services and can work well in a team and lead work across the Trust, ICS and region, then this is the job for you.
Applicants should have significant experience at a senior nurse level in maternity working in both acute and community settings.
In addition to having excellent communications skills, the ability to respond to critical and immediate changes of work priorities and demands is crucial to this role.
After many years of collaboration and creating closer working ties, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust formed a hospital group and appointed a Group Chief Executive in August 2021 (following the appointment of a Chairman in Common in 2019) and a single executive team in January 2022.
Working as a Hospital Group allows for more joined up decision making for local people, a larger and more resilient clinical workforce, reduced variation in care and access to a wider range of services for our patients.
The Group Director of Midwifery (GDoM) role is the most senior midwife across the Group and reports directly to the Group Chief Nursing Officer (GNCO) and will be their nominated Deputy for midwifery related matters They will provide professional midwifery advice to the Group Board of Executives, GCNO, Hospital Leadership teams and are accountable for the quality standards within maternity alongside the (GNCO) and site Chief Nursing Officers, ensuring that the corporate nursing responsibility for women and new born is discharged and that high quality, flexible, responsive, compassionate and safe care is provided and that regulatory requirements are met.
The post holder, as professional midwifery lead on the following, will advise the GCNO and Chief Executive (CEO), Hospital Executive teams and the Trust Board on all Midwifery aspects including:
· Maternity vision and strategy – Quality Improvement and Transformational plans
· HR, workforce, equality, training and development
· Quality, safety and governance
· Patient experience – collaboration with Maternity Voices Partnership
· Midwifery and professional standards
· CQC regulation and compliance
· Adherence to national guidance
· Safeguarding
The post holder will work in collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure the delivery of key safety, quality, performance, and governance plans, demonstrating highly developed leadership and managerial skills.
The post holder will have responsibility for clear and accountable line management of midwives, and non-clinical support staff within the division, managing the resources in line with Trust business plans, objectives, strategy, and budget.
The postholder is expected to work in accordance with agreed site objectives and professionally to the GCNO. This will require the post-holder to promote professionalism among midwives and other regulated health care professionals, and play a full corporate role, leading on, Trust-wide midwifery initiatives requested by, or on behalf of, the GCNO.
The postholder will need to establish excellent relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the on-going development of high quality and effective services across all the Group.
The post-holder will participate in the Trust on-call senior manager Rota.
To represent and proactively contribute on behalf of the Group and midwifery in internal and external fora e,g NMAHP Board, Director of Public Health, regulator meetings and the Local Maternity and Neonatal System and work with partners (providers, commissioners and service users) to create a cohesive, responsive maternity service for our populations across SW London.
This advert closes on Friday 5 Jan 2024
