Employer: NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Wellington Civic Offices
Town: Wellington
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 Pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/11/2024 23:59
Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP) Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
The Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP) is a partnership that works to review and contribute to the development of maternity and neonatal services within Shropshire Telford and Wrekin. It brings together the staff who pay for (commission) services with the women, providers, birthing people, and families who use those services. One of the main functions of the MNVP is to engage with and listen to families in our community about their experiences of maternity and neonatal care.
Shrewsbury Telford and Wrekin ICB are seeking a highly motivated individual to lead our MNVP to deliver its objectives. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and utilise your excellent communication and leadership skills along with your passion to drive improvements in maternity and neonatal services, making sure service user voice is at the heart of decision making.
The ideal candidate will have lived experience of maternity and/or neonatal services, understand the voluntary sector and be confident working at a senior level and managing relationships.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will ensure that the MNVP effectively engages with and listens to families in our community about their experiences of maternity and neonatal care. This will include identifying and engaging with seldom heard groups, including those that are most at risk of experiencing health inequalities. They will ensure the MNVP provides meaningful contribution to the systems quality and safety and transformation agenda and puts the service user voice at the heart of decision making. They will maintain strong influential relationships with local system partners at all levels to ensure the voices of families are heard and the programme priorities reflect the views of the community.
The ideal candidate will have a dynamic and collaborative approach with demonstrable experience in the following areas:
1. Engagement and communication, including developing communications and engagement plans and engaging with members of the public and/or the voluntary sector.
2. Strategic and operational planning responsibility including developing and delivering activity work plans and projects on time and within budget.
3. Service improvement and transformation including delivery of highly effective and visible outcomes using quantitative and qualitative data to influence decision making and putting service user voice at the heart of decision making.
4. Relationship management at a variety of levels including senior leaders, clinicians, and stakeholders.
Working for our organisation
Our Values & Behaviours
We embody compassion, respect, drive, and integrity in our unique role within the STW health and care system. We value diverse contributions, drawing on the expertise and experience of local people, staff and partners, alongside high-quality intelligence to serve our communities effectively.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for more detailed information. This will give you a better overview of the job role requirements.
Person specification
Knowledge, training and experience
* Educated to master’s level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
* Extensive knowledge and maternity and/or Neonatal services, planning and project management functions.
* Lived experience of maternity and/or neonatal services.
* Experience of leading on the development and delivery of strategies and project plans.
* Experience of effective planning and managing project resources, people, and performance.
* Experience of working with the voluntary sector.
* Demonstrable experience of influencing and negotiating with key stakeholders.
* Experience of preparing briefing papers and correspondence at board level.
* Proven and significant leadership experience.
* Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
* Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
* Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
Analytical
* Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
* Able to draw qualitative and quantitative information from a range of sources and present it concisely.
* Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
* Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
* Ability to effectively plan and think strategically and analyse and resolve problems in a multidisciplinary environment.
* Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium, and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
* Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
Autonomy
* Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
* Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Physical skills
* Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
Equity and diversity
* Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems in the area.
Please Note
In event of exceptionally high levels of response, we reserve the right to close the post before the date stated above in order to prevent the number of applications received being unmanageable. You are advised to submit your completed application form as soon as possible to have the best chance of being considered.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Name: Sue Bull
Job title: Local Maternity and Neonatal System Programme Lead
Email address: sue.bull4@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07773008535
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