National Maternity Lead for Equality | NHS England
| Posting date: | 30 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £70,417 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE1 8UG |
| Company: | Health Education England |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6271471/990-S3-COR-S-1012-A |
Summary
The National Maternity Lead for Equality will use their midwifery registration, experience, knowledge, and skills to work collaboratively across the NHSE Maternity Neonatal programme team and with the Chief Midwifery officer to deliver the objective of the ‘Three year delivery plan’ to improve equity for mothers and babies. This will be done by working with a range of key stakeholders and staff working across maternity services to design clinical improvement programmes of work related to the outcomes and experiences of Black, Asian and other Minority ethnicities within the population of women and their families who are receiving Maternity care; and to improve equality, equity and accessibility for staff working across Maternity services.
Working with the Maternity Neonatal programme team and the Chief Midwifery Officer to deliver the objectives of the ‘Three year delivery plan’ to improve equity for mothers and babies and to devise, and to work closely with key stakeholders to ensure diversity within the workforce and ensure that opportunities within the workforce are equitable, inclusive and accessible.
• Develop and implement qualitative and quantitative measures to determine performance against the Chief Midwifery Officer’s strategic objectives. Report progress against the strategy through personal representation at senior management forums and by written reports. Tailoring delivery to meet the needs of the audience.
• Ensure that best practice is developed and delivered at organisational and departmental levels. Challenge ways of working and persuade, motivate and influence others to realign their practice where necessary.
• Ensure that appropriate equality strategies are employed in line with business objectives and that these are fully cascaded.
• Personally lead, support and contribute to formal negotiations with senior level internal and external stakeholders, providing a high level of negotiating expertise to secure the most advantageous arrangements.
• Advise on innovative opportunities and support all departments in their strategies relating to Equality and the programmes that maximise service benefits
In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visithttps://www.england.nhs.uk/ .
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Main duties of the job continued:
• Oversee the tracking of progress against plans and transition milestones, ensuring appropriate processes are in place to flag issues, risks and concerns with the relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure the securing of value for money, assuring relevant factors such as quality and governance.
• To monitor, interpret and quality assure progress against deliverables. Quality assurance and progress of deliverables to the NHSCB that often Developing an excellent organisation · To ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of all staff within the department
• To ensure compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements within the department
• To adhere to the NHS Managers Code of Conduct and any other relevant professional codes of conduct at all times require adjustments specifically in relation to the complex corporate business agenda, strategic objectives and the business planning process
• Devise, manage and update policies and procedures, ensuring the adoption of best practice methodology, rules, standards and thresholds.
• Support the creation and locally implement the Three year delivery plan for maternity services, clearly identifying links to national, regional and local priorities and policy objectives.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of general policy and service development.
• Develop and implement strategies for improving performance and processes, ensuring stakeholders representation.
• Drive and lead development and improvement of processes.
• Drives process efficiency in the continuous development of the end-to end cycle and its associated performance metrics.
• Accountable for short, medium and long-term strategic business plans, achieving quality outcomes.
• Responsible for linking people, resource and strategy to organisational strategy.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
This advert closes on Monday 13 May 2024