NHS AfC: Band 8c

Main area Maternity Services Grade NHS AfC: Band 8c Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 349-SMH-7042092*

Site Saint Mary's MCS Town Manchester Salary £74,290 - £85,601 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 27/03/2025 23:59

Job Overview

Shape a bright future for midwifery at a great hospital in a unique Trust.

This extremely exciting and challenging period in the delivery of health care in Greater Manchester provides a wealth of career opportunities for great people. Right now, we are seeking an innovative practitioner to join us as Head of Midwifery across Saint Mary’s MCS

You will bring to the role a proven commitment to improving the experience of women and families. Providing visible and inspiring leadership, you’ll forge strong relationships not only across the Midwifery community of Saint Mary’s but also with the specialty teams throughout the MFT. Supporting clear expectations, and actively developing education and practice, you will be instrumental in driving up standards of care along with reducing variation in outcomes for families.

Main duties of the job

Taking the lead on safety quality and the patient experience, you’ll make the best possible use of midwifery metrics, quality campaigns and accreditation processes.

An NMC registered Midwife with a significant clinical track record, you’ll bring to the role extensive operational management experience gained through holding a senior midwifery role. Your experience spans a range of midwifery settings and models of care, with knowledge of budget management, financial planning and strategic development. We’ll expect you to be adept leading on clinical innovation, and support in shaping new roles and services. It’s your passion for the women and their families, collaborative spirit and excellent communication skills that really set you apart.

The Head of Midwifery is the professional lead for midwifery providing visible leadership across a site within the Saint Mary’s Managed Clinical Service (SM MCS) setting, monitoring and maintaining professional high standards. S/he is an innovative practitioner committed to improving the experience of women / families and driving up standards of care and will command the confidence of colleagues within the MCS and other specialty teams across the Trust.

You will set clear expectations and lead the delivery of midwifery objectives set by the Trust and the Hospital/MCS. While having a strong commitment to delivering a world-class service for mothers, babies and families.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Registered Midwife on NMC register
A relevant Masters degree or equivalent post graduate qualification/ working towards a Masters degree/ equivalent experience.
Significant operational management experience at DHOM level or above.
Post registration leadership development

Desirable criteria

Teaching qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

Significant clinical experience at DHOM level within a complex organisation.
Experienced in a range of midwifery settings and models of care
Knowledge and understanding of NHSE Policy and regulatory policy, demonstrating ability to interpret these and implement changes where appropriate.
Experience in managing an operational service including budget management/financial planning and strategic development
Experience in developing and presenting business cases, developing new roles and services.
Experience of managing complex situations i.e. restructuring, reorganisation of services.
On-going recent evidence of leading clinical innovation or leading change within clinical practice.
Evidence of working with agencies and voluntary groups re consultation around provision of services, service developments
Experience of reviewing skill mix and introduction of new roles.
The post holder must have regular access to transport to meet the demands of the role.

Desirable criteria

Experience of research activities.
Involvement with external bodies i.e. contribute to NMC panel assessments, CQC inspections
Chair or member of external groups e.g. Safeguarding; professional bodies
Evidence of involvement in local & national networks

Training Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

Evidence of experience in management of change.
Evidence of collaborative working and learning.
Evidence of experience of clinical governance
Knowledge of clinical audit
Evidence of strong leadership skills.
Strategic thinker
Ability to make decisions in a pressured environment.
Analytical skills, able to analyse complex data/charts.
Able to articulate with advanced verbal and written skills with evidence of report writing and presentation skills.
Excellent interpersonal skills and experience in interdisciplinary working/communication.
Initiative, planning and finishing skills evidence.
Ability to produce reports, action plans, both written and verbal.
Ability to speak/present in external forums in respect to reconfiguration of services.
Project Management Skills.
Ability to work at a strategic level representing the trust to external stakeholders

Desirable criteria

Further evidence of continued leadership development
Evidence of leading major organisational change
Evidence of leading governance /clinical effectiveness agenda in complex service

Attributes

Essential criteria

Honest.
Open minded, treats colleagues with dignity and respect.
Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour.
Inspires others and leads by example

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

Job description (PDF, 280.4KB)
Person specification (PDF, 48.5KB)
Functional requirements (PDF, 920.2KB)
Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 1.3MB)

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name Beverley O'Connor Job title Head of Midwifery, Saint Mary's Oxford Road Email address beverley.o'connor@mft.nhs.uk Telephone number 0161 276 6523

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