Job overview
OUH maternity is a tertiary level service with a workforce of over staff, including consultants, midwives, and nurses. The key responsibilities for this role include overall operational leadership for the service, working as part of the triumvirate team alongside the Clinical Director and the Director of Midwifery. The emphasis is on strategic direction, improvement, and development for maternity services, ensuring alignment with significant national guidance, regulation, and recommendations.
Main duties of the job
The postholder is a key member of the senior Clinical Directorate leadership team and will develop and implement Directorate plans to secure the agreed objectives for the Clinical Directorate and make a positive contribution to delivery of health care across the local health community.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view
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