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Job summary

Main area
Midwifery
Grade
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
Contract
1 year (fixed term - 12 months)
Hours
4 sessions per week (Flexible working)
Job ref
409-7309006
Employer
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Whiston Hospital
Town
Prescot
Salary
sessional pay; 4-10 sessions per month
Closing
18/08/2025 23:59

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Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust logo

Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP) Chair

Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM

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Job overview

The Maternity and Neonatal Voices partnership (MNVP) are an independently led group who work together to review and support local maternity and Neonatal services, listen to the voices of service users, co produce the design and implementation of services and support the LMNS to provide quality assurance and surveillance across maternity services.

It is important to have an active MNVP which represents and supports those using the Maternity/ Neonatal Services and enable the services to improve.

Interview Date will be week commencing 25th August 2025

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for a driven and enthusiastic person to be the Lead for Maternity and Neonatal Voice partnership, in which you will be the main contact for all enquiries, leading on engagement with people who are using the Maternity and Neonatal services within the boroughs of Sefton, West Lancs, St Helens, Knowsley and Halton. The role has a strategic level responsibility with engagement with key stakeholders including the LMNS and commissioners.

We are looking for individuals who are compassionate and driven to advocate for women and their families and be a conduit to the improvement and advancement of our Maternity and Neonatal services.

This role will be a flexible role, working at home, within the community and with the ability to travel across the MWL hospital footprint

The role is proposed for 2 years and remunerated on a sessional basis up to £9,000 per year

Working for our organisation

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our services:

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

  • Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
  • Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
  • National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be considered for this role you must reside in the Sefton, West Lancs, St Helens, Knowsley or Halton area, as this is due to the nature of the duties as detailed in the job description and person specification. You  must be a service user member, current or previous  as this is the area that the MNVP will be working as an advocate for people using the Maternity/ Neonatal services.

Person specification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant administrative knowledge
  • Knowledge and good use of IT systems and software programs such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
  • Understanding of Confidentiality and Data Protection Act.
  • Knowledge of NHS Maternity and Neonatal care and passionate about developing the quality of care
  • Demonstrable experience of maternity services as a service user within the past 3 years.

Communication skills

Essential criteria
  • Clear communicator with writing and presentation skills.
  • Capable of constructing and delivering clear information/ instructions to service users/providers
  • The ability to listen and keep meetings on track
  • Minute/note taking
  • Ability to share information and communicate digitally.
  • Ability to listen to others and express own view clearly and succinctly
  • Empathy for others.
  • Ability to articulate a patient experience beyond personal experience where necessary

Safeguarding

Essential criteria
  • Safeguarding Commitment and understanding of safeguarding principles

Equality and Diversity

Essential criteria
  • Commitment to (and understanding of) equality and diversity related to opportunities and good relationships

Autonomy

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work without supervision.
  • Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others workloads/ contributions
  • Ability to meet deadlines

Other

Essential criteria
  • Have an approachable, measured, calm and efficient manner
  • Positive and flexible approach to work

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Nursing TimesApprenticeships logoDisability confident leaderArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardNavajo - Merseyside and CheshireCare quality commission - OutstandingDying to Work CharterStep into healthHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingNHS Rainbow Badge - BronzeDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldPeople Promise

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people 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
Alison Murray
Job title
Deputy Director of Midwifery
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0151 6765268
Additional information

Alison Murray

Deputy Director of Midwifery- Whiston Site

[email protected]

 

Dawn Meredith 

Deputy Director of Midwifery- Ormskirk site

[email protected]

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