Group Director of Midwifery | Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust
Location
Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire | United Kingdom
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join an ambitious and newly formed NHS Group, the 12th largest acute and community provider in the NHS.
Our maternity and obstetric services provide care for women, birthing people and their babies and families in Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire and are based on three acute hospital sites: Hull Royal Infirmary, Diana Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby, and Scunthorpe General Hospital. Along with extensive community maternity services, we have an alongside midwife-led birth centre at Hull Royal Infirmary and a Home for Home Midwifery-Led Unit at Goole Hospital.
The services provide a comprehensive range of maternal, fetal and mental health services for the populations we serve. We are linked to the Humber and North Yorkshire Local Maternity and Neonatal System and work closely with our partners locally and regionally and are proud to have a strong connection to the Local Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership.
Maternity and Obstetric care is part of the Family Services Healthcare Group. The Group Director of Midwifery is the professional and strategic lead for Maternity services and provides professional advice and support to the Group Chief Nurse, corporate nursing team and the Group Board on relevant matters.
The role offers Board level exposure and development for aspiring executive applicants, you will bring the voice of midwifery, birthing people and families to the Board.
The Group Director of Midwifery is accountable jointly with the Chief of Service, Operations Director and Nurse Director for ensuring that the safety and care of patients and service users is their primary concern. They are also responsible for the group’s overall efficient leadership, management, performance, and the delivery of high-quality patient care.
If successful you will be central to leading and shaping maternity and neonatal service strategy at a time when maternity services, and the improvements we need to make, are in the forefront of national and local focus.
This is a senior leadership position, and you'll need to work within the Healthcare Group quadrumvirate leadership team driving positive change as well as being a strong, clear, and positive advocate for the services we provide. You will contribute actively to strategic discussions, Board assurance processes via its committees, corporate reports, Group performance and Board intelligence, and will develop excellent working relationships with all Board members.
The role will be accountable for overseeing the implementation of systems for assuring and monitoring the quality and safety of patient care and experience, including patient throughput.
We are committed to providing personalised, kind, compassionate, safe maternity, and neonatal care in the region.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLaG) comprise a highly ambitious, newly formed NHS Group, the 12th largest acute and community provider in the NHS.
With an NHS budget of over £1.3 billion, HUTH & NLaG are united by the purpose to ensure better care is provided to a population of over 1.5 million people. To ensure progressive and effective collaboration across the two Trusts, a Group Chair and Group Chief Executive have recently been appointed, enabling an effective transition into a Group Operating Model, with a single harmonised Executive Team and leadership structure.
As part of this transition, we are now seeing to appoint a Group Director of Midwifery. This is a great opportunity for a dynamic, energetic and compassionate leader to support the development of services, in an environment of fast-paced change and transformation.
There has never been a better time to join our Group in this senior clinical leadership position. We seek a credible, dynamic and innovative leader who will lead with excellence and confidence. As the Group Director of Midwifery, you'll be fundamental in shaping our services for women, birthing people, babies, and families and supporting our colleagues who deliver these services.
We are seeking an exceptional individual who, as an experienced leader in maternity services, has a pedigree for service delivery in this challenging but massively exciting service. You'll need to understand and be able to evidence the power of multidisciplinary and service user collaborative working and ensure that the safety of the patients is at the heart of your decision making.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
This advert closes on Monday 19 Feb 2024
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