Job summary
- Main area
- Service Users for Epsom and St Helier Maternity Services
- Grade
- Self Employed
- Contract
- 6 months (Approx. 6 months fixed term)
- Hours
- Flexible working - 7 hours per week (Monday- Friday)
- Job ref
- 343-7466172-RB-UB-R
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Epsom Hospital
- Town
- Epsom
- Salary
- £18.78 £18.75 per hour incl HCAS Outer pro rata
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 02/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Self -Employed-Epsom Maternity Chair for the MNVP
Self Employed
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
Job overview
Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (‘MNVP’) - Self Employed Opportunity this is not a direct report to ESTH
£18.75 per hour incl HCAS Outer pro rata, with reimbursement of childcare and travel expenses
Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (‘MNVP’) listens to the experiences of women, birthing people and families, and brings together service users, staff and other stakeholders to plan, review and improve maternity and neonatal care.
MNVPs ensure that service users’ voices are at the heart of decision-making in maternity and neonatal services by being embedded within the leadership of provider Trusts and feeding into the Local Maternity and Neonatal System and Integrated Care Board. This influences improvements in the safety, quality, and experience of maternity and neonatal care.
We work to ensure that every woman and birthing person on the maternity and neonatal pathway has a chance to have their voice heard. We do not speak for them.
Main duties of the job
The role of MNVP Maternity Lead is key to providing inclusive and collaborative leadership and ways of working, ensuring that all women and birthing people and their families’ views are heard and acted on. This is an exciting opportunity to review, shape and improve services and make a real difference to women, birthing people and their families.
There is an expectation to attend regular Trust meetings. However, the role is largely flexible, working 7 hours per week, the successful candidate will be remunerated for their time. The role of MNVP Maternity Lead provides an opportunity to become part of a vibrant team, improving care for our service users and enabling voices and engagement with our community.
Working for our organisation
Epsom and St Helier Hospital (‘ESTH’) provides maternity and neonatal care for approx. 3200 women and birthing people and their babies each year, providing all aspects of obstetric and midwifery care in our labour ward, midwife-led birth centre and home birthing service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role of the MNVP Maternity Lead is key to ensuring women and birthing people’s voices are heard and acted upon, bringing service users and their families’ voices to the centre of service development and improvement. Supported by South West London and Surrey Heartlands Local Maternity & Neonatal System1 (LMNS) they work alongside the MNVP Maternity Leads for St Helier and maternity and neonatal management teams to ensure service user voices shape maternity and neonatal care, using co-production methods and values. They will champion seldom listened-to voices and address inequalities across all work undertaken.
Person specification
Lived Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent lived experience of using maternity services at Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust
Desirable criteria
- Lived experience of using maternity services at Epsom and St Helier within the last ten years
IT and social media skills
Essential criteria
- Basic understanding of Microsoft Office.
- Understanding of, and competence in using social media.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in using Microsoft Teams.
Knowledge/experience
Essential criteria
- Having a good understanding of national and local maternity issues.
- Having experience with patient/family advocacy
Desirable criteria
- Being up to date with current NHS plans.
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Elizabeth Cullen
- Job title
- Head of Midwifery and Gynaecology Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07775646825
- Additional information
Diane Weir- Service Improvement and Transformation Lead Midwife ( 07824 408301) [email protected]
Sophie Clougher -Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership Chair for St Helier [email protected]
To apply, please submit a 500-word expression of interest outlining why you’re a strong fit for this role.
Please email to Elizabeth Cullen. [email protected]
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