Job Summary
This is an opportunity for an experienced obstetric consultant with significant leadership experience and a special interest in maternal medicine to provide strategic clinical leadership across the Kent and Medway Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS). The postholder will work with a wide range of local, regional, and national stakeholders to support the delivery of the ambition to make services safer, more personalised, and more equitable.
The postholder will have responsibility and the opportunity to lead and influence quality improvement and transformation programmes in line with national policy and the 3 Year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services, across the four maternity provider Trusts within the LMNS. In addition, the post will take a strategic focus as the system lead obstetrician in the Kent and Medway Maternal Medicine Network (MMN), currently part of the South East London MMN. Working with the LMNS Consultant Obstetric Physician, the MMN Lead Midwife, and the Trust site leads, the aim is to ensure that women and birthing people with acute and chronic medical problems have timely access to specialist care.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Work alongside and role model good multi-professional behaviours with obstetric colleagues and wider stakeholders across the LMNS to drive service change and transformation in maternity and neonatal services through effective clinical leadership and engagement across Kent & Medway.
2. Focus on the quality of maternity services within the LMNS, including sharing intelligence and working with other key partners and regulators across and outside the system to improve quality of care and outcomes.
3. Be responsible for building partnerships and collaborating with provider Trusts, public health, local government, primary care, provider collaboratives, the SE London Maternal Medicine Centre, and other partners, including local people, to deliver better access, improvements in life outcomes, and reductions in health inequity.
4. Work with the SE London Maternal Medicine Network leads as part of the MMN leadership team, alongside the system Consultant Obstetric Physician and the MMN Lead Midwife as part of the system leadership team for the Kent and Medway MMN.
5. Be a member of the LMNS executive board and system governance groups to provide clinical advice and leadership to inform decision making, and chair clinically focused programme and project groups where strong clinical leadership is key to achieving the required outcomes.
About Us
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement that will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. To reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation.
Date Posted: 19 February 2025
Pay Scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Consultant
Salary: £105,504 to £139,882 a year per session
Contract: Secondment
Working Pattern: Part-time
Reference Number: 095-6963441-TS
Job Locations:
Gail House, Maidstone, ME15 6NB
Person Specification - Experience and Qualifications (Essential)
1. A practising consultant obstetrician working a minimum of two NHS clinical sessions per week, ideally within Kent and Medway. Fully qualified in respective profession - in possession of a GMC Licence to Practice and on the specialist register. Special interest in Maternal Medicine.
2. Experience of senior clinical leadership in the NHS, beyond the boundaries of a single practice or profession, able to represent the broad clinical views of their colleagues.
3. Demonstrable understanding and continuous achievement of good clinical governance, evidenced through appropriate appraisal and assurance. A track record in securing or supporting improvements for service users.
4. Sound understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and experience of setting strategic direction through effective clinical leadership by contributing to the development of clinical strategies.
5. Experience of sound stakeholder engagement through effective communication and interactions with wider clinical colleagues, patients, members of the public, and leaders of other organisations.
Core Competencies (Essential)
1. Excellent interpersonal skills, able to demonstrate personal qualities of drawing upon their values, strengths, and abilities to commission high standards of service.
2. Confident to critically challenge information and explanations supplied by others, who may be experts in their field. But also, be willing to listen to others who may not be experts but have an important contribution to make.
3. Able to articulate and influence clinical considerations from the perspective of primary care, community care, and acute care including when these differ from personal preferences.
4. Capable of understanding and analysing complex issues, drawing on the breadth of data that needs to inform ICB and LMNS deliberations and decision making, and as part of this, ensuring that it is used ethically to balance competing priorities.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.
Employer Details
Employer Name: NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board
Address: Gail House, Maidstone, ME15 6NB
Employer's Website: NHS Kent and Medway ICB
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