Detailed job description and main responsibilities

-       As a senior leader across the LMNS, create a positive and respectful leadership relationships that commit to delivering wide scale system change, ensuring the LMNS acts as an enabler to improve the safety of maternity services and population health of BLMK.

-       Support the BLMK LMNS team to develop and enhance strong working relationships with partners and key stakeholders to ensure the effective delivery of the LMNS ambitions, strategies, and plans.

-       As a system leader and role model, provide leadership across organisational and professional boundaries to facilitate shared learning, risk identification and support transformation change for the maternity population.

-       Influence and work collaboratively as part of a wider system to create opportunities to make sustainable long-term quality improvements to maternity care achieving the opportunities for efficiencies of working at scale that the LMNS represents.

-       Ensure continued effective relationships with multiple key stakeholders including NHS providers, local authorities, Health Watch and other patient groups and the voluntary sector which will be required to support the partnership and ICP vision and strategy.

-       Pro-actively manage stakeholders, respond to, and resolve conflict between different stakeholders.

-       Work with providers to improve adverse performance where necessary.

-       Through effective leadership of the transformational programmes, support and enable an approach with co-production at the centre ensuring the voices of our partners, local communities and population are heard and remain at the heart of all decisions.

-       Establish behaviours of an effective and compassionate patient safety reporting, learning and improvement system including openness, a just culture, continuous learning, and improvement.

-       Support and promote a culture of inclusive leadership.

-       Be visible as a collaborative senior leader and role model, across the whole system in the development and delivery of the LMNS plan.

-       Share responsibility as part of the BLMK LMNS to ensure the LMNS exercises its functions at system and place effectively, efficiently, economically, with good governance.

-       Be responsible for leading, influencing and contributing to the ICB plans, wider system strategies and policies of the ICB, with the aim of driving innovation, the reduction of health inequalities and achieving better life outcomes across the system.

-       Contribute to programmes and developments on a regional and/or national basis as required as this relates to the delivery of ICS, ICB and LMNS objectives and ensures the promotion of the reputation of our system and BLMK.

-       Develop/build upon sound relationships and links with a wide range of stakeholders related to Maternity and neonatal services and their interdependencies. Including service users, Hospital Trusts, ICB, Mental Health Trusts, Directors and Heads of Midwifery, Community and Acute maternity teams, Obstetricians, GPs and primary care, voluntary organisations, the independent sector, Local Authorities, ODN’s and NHSE Network leads.

-       Have experience of wider safety agenda, experience at a regional level sighted on safety threats nationally to be able to take a proactive approach by interpreting and presenting National policy details and recommendations to a range of audiences. Lead on behalf of the LMNS/ICB the work with other senior leaders across health and social care to ensure an integrated approach to strategic planning, development and service and system transformation on behalf of the LMNS, ensuring alignment with local priorities, national guidance.

-       To make formal and informal presentations to large groups (e.g. ICB and LMNS), on specific projects, project plans and related progress. Develop status reports and proposals for improvement and transformation, and using highly effective presentation skills, deliver proposals for change to senior executives/clinical colleagues.

- To complete reporting to the LMNS team, East of England Regional team, ICB and NHS England and other formal bodies as required.