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Job summary

Main area
Midwifery Management - WXH
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
259-7279849WXH
Employer
Barts Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Whipps Cross Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£59,490 - £66,239 Per annum inc (Pay Award Pending)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/06/2025 23:59

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Barts Health NHS Trust logo

Maternity and Neonatal Quality & Compliance Lead

Band 8a

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

Job overview

Are you a motivated individual with strong skills in data quality and compliance and have project management skills? Ready to lead, oversee, and coordinate a range of quality and compliance initiatives across Maternity services? This role offers you the opportunity to collaborate with clinical, operational, and governance colleagues, as well as the broader health system, to drive positive change for women and birthing people at Whipps Cross Hospital. Your focus will be the collection and coordination of evidence to assure us and our regulators that we are meeting the quality standards expected for the long term.

 

For further information on the role, please contact Taylor Cornwell PA ([email protected]) to arrange a meeting with Sujatha Thamban, Divisional Director or Anna Jones, Divisional Manager, Women's and Children's Division

Main duties of the job

The post holders' primary responsibility will be to oversee the effective and timely delivery of a number of Maternity safety and improvement programmes;  

  • Maternity Incentive Scheme safety standards (CNST)
  • Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulation, compliance and action plans
  • NHSE Maternity and Neonatal Three Year Plan 
  • MSSP Recommended actions 
  • Ockenden recommendations
  • Quality peer review visits and action plans
  • Audits and corrective actions plans
  • Manage staff

This includes supervising project workstreams, gathering and quality checking evidence submitted, analysing and presenting data, writing reports and ensuring deadlines are met.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers. 

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients. 

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together. 

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment. 

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to Master’s level or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
  • Project & Programme management and Change Management qualifications (e.g. Prince 2, MSP, Agile, APMP)

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in Maternity services at band 7 or above.
  • Experience of analysing and interpreting information from multiple sources to manage variances in performance and identify solutions to deliver improvement.
  • Demonstrable understanding of the NHS Quality agenda.
  • Proven track record of success in managing change
  • Experience of developing and implementing service wide strategies, policies and procedures.
  • Working knowledge of current NHS quality/compliance agenda
  • Experience of dealing with complaints
  • Experience of managing a project using project management methodology.
  • Experience of managing staff
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in working in NHS regulatory compliance.
  • Experience in leadership/management role in a large/complex healthcare organisation
  • Experience of chairing multidisciplinary meetings.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Broad understanding of the NHS and key policy issues that affect business performance and the policy framework within which NHS services operate.
  • Substantial knowledge of CQC compliance.
  • Demonstrable understanding of quality improvement and benchmarking and implementing improvements in practice.
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience of delivering elements of CNST

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Highly developed communication skills in a range of media, written, oral, presentation, electronic.
  • Political awareness – ability to perceive impact of compliance requirements on the decisions and activities of others.
  • Ability to analyse and interpret data and statistics and present complex information in an easy-to-understand way.
  • Ability to prioritise effectively in the face of competing demands, and work under pressure to strict deadlines.
  • Strong leadership, negotiation and influencing skills with the ability to motivate and engage individuals and teams to deliver compliance objectives in the context of organisational operational goals and strategic objectives.
  • Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively and to prioritise work programs.

Other

Essential criteria
  • Highly self-motivated, conscientious and pays attention to detail.
  • Flexibility in approach and attitude.
  • Works at optimum level in a complex, pressurised environment and is motivated by achieving continuous improvement.
  • Committed to living the Trust’s values, willing to inspire others to act in accordance with those values
  • Evidence of personal development.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Green@Barts HealthNHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyLondon Living Wage is a voluntary commitment made by employers, who can become accredited with the Living Wage FoundationPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Pregnancy Loss PledgeDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Happy to Talk Flexible Working

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lynn Maycroft
Job title
Deputy Head of Midwifery
Email address
[email protected]
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