A Vacancy at NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board.
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, women, 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.
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:
Engagement and communication, including developing communications and engagement plans and engaging with members of the public and/or the voluntary sector.
Strategic and operational planning responsibility including developing and delivering activity work plans and projects on time and within budget.
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.
Relationship management at a variety of levels including senior leaders, clinicians, and stakeholders.
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. The below measures help assess how effectively we foster a compassionate culture, communicate our optimism, engage with stakeholders to drive positive change, are transparent in decision making and ensure our efforts are aligned with the priorities of our communities to address health outcomes and inequalities.
Ambition
Our commitment to success is shown through supporting and trusting our people to tackle challenging tasks with integrity and creativity.
Compassion
Our shared purpose, supported by our empathetic, inclusive approach where the contributions of all are valued as we work together to reduce inequalities.
Optimism
Where our drive for improvement will be shared with clarity, enthusiasm, and openness.
Focus
Where our efforts are concentrated towards, to improve health and well being with the people of STW.
These values are measured by evidence of behaviours captured through performance appraisals, feedback from ICS partners and staff surveys and our lived experience groups. Additionally, we ensure transparency in decision-making and ethical considerations in our records, and we demonstrate the impact of lived experiences in developing and tracking plans.
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.
This advert closes on Sunday 10 Nov 2024