Other - On secondment from trust role - salary will remain the same
Contracted Hours: 0.4WTE for internal candidates (who are already carrying out clinical advisory duties) and 0.6 WTE for external candidates - 2 posts available
Contract Type: Secondment Opportunity for 23 months
Closing date: Thursday 6th March 2025 at 11.59pm
Interview date: Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th March 2025 at our Stratford office
This role is NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
Are you committed to helping us regulate health and social care within England?
When thinking about what drives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about your work what comes to mind? For 3000+ people at the CQC we end each day knowing that we have made a difference to the lives of those most in need in our communities. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. We are looking for people who are caring, demonstrate integrity and work well as part of a team to join with us and share in this sense of achievement. If you would like to help us make a positive impact to health and social care within England, then read on.
Why this could be a great role for you….
The Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigation programme is part of a national strategy to improve maternity care across the NHS in England.
The Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigation (MNSI) programme, formerly the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) maternity programme, moved to be hosted by the CQC on the 1 October 2023. The maternity programme commenced under HSIB in April 2018, following the request from the then Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. The programme is part of the overall national maternity ambition to improve maternity safety and reduce harm by 50% by 2025. The programme was fully rolled out across England by April 2019. In 2022, a commitment was made to continue the programme for a further 5 years.
What we can offer you...
- 27 days' annual leave, rising with service to 29-33 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays
- NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution
- Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day
- Discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics and fleet cars
- Discounted gym vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Internal reward scheme where you could win a voucher or two!
- Equipment for homeworking
We want to support you to succeed and be your very best, with opportunities for training and development along with the support of experienced managers and mentors.
We want to make working for MNSI a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.
What you will bring…
MNSI is seeking two experienced clinicians, at senior consultant level or equivalent, to support and deputise as required for the MNSI Clinical Director.
As one of two deputy clinical directors, the postholders will also act as clinical advisors for MNSI and provide expert clinical advice related to their clinical specialty to inform MNSI investigations. They will work as part of the programme leadership team within MNSI and support the wider MNSI team in all aspects of their involvement with trusts and families.
This is a unique and exciting opportunity for an established practitioner, with wide experience and a deep understanding of the operation of the NHS healthcare system as a whole.
The successful applicants will be experienced, knowledgeable and empathetic, being able to relate to staff at all levels as well as women, birthing people and their families. They will have evidence of patient safety, human factors, safety science and quality improvement experience, with knowledge and experience of the MNSI programme.
It is essential that each deputy clinical director maintains their registration with their professional regulator and holds a senior consultant level or equivalent clinical position, on aggregate two clinical days per week, within an NHS perinatal service concurrently with this post.
One of the two deputy clinical directors will co-lead the collaboration pillar of work (coding, thematic analysis and external facing learning); the other will co-lead the learning pillar of work (education and development of the MNSI team, including development of the MNSI investigation process).
To access the full job description, please click the link below:
Job Description - MNSI Deputy Clinical Director
How to apply…
To apply for this role, please submit a copy of your CV and Supporting Statement (no more than 750-words) via the Recruitment System. Your Supporting Statement should cover the following:
- How your previous experience makes you suitable for this role?
- What strengths will you bring to the role?
For an informal discussion or further information on the role, please contact Louise Page, Clinical Director at Louise.Page@mnsi.org.uk
Individual adjustments...
We are committed to being open and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. We seek to support candidates to identify potential challenges and work with them to identify and facilitate reasonable adjustments as appropriate. Should you require assistance and/or would like to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact a member of the team via email: recruitment@cqc.org.uk
Note for internal candidates: As this is a secondment/fixed term opportunity it is important that you read our recruitment and selection policy relating to secondments and you must discuss your application with your line manager before applying. Your line manager will need to consider the implications of the release, agree whether you can be released for a specific time and that the secondment represents a development opportunity/meets business needs.
Note for external candidates: CQC are currently working through an organisational transformation programme which includes the creation of a new target operating model. This role is offered as a fixed term contract as part of the transition process to that new model. For further information on this please visit this link.
CQC is committed to promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where all our people can flourish and reach their full potential. We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of: age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.
For this role, we are particularly encouraging people from ethnically diverse communities and people with a disability to apply, who are currently under-represented at this level in the organisation.
Candidates must ensure that all information provided in their application is detailed in their own words and is factually accurate. Any examples provided must be taken from personal experience. CQC abides by honesty and integrity as part of its core values, if evidence of plagiarism or generating answers from other sources is found, applications may be withdrawn.
Our Values
Excellence – Meeting our challenge to be a high-performing organisation
Caring – Treating everyone with dignity and respect
Integrity – Demonstrating our passion for ‘doing the right thing’
Teamwork – Enabling us to be the best we can
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