Maternity/Neonatal Lead

2 months ago


Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (468) Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and skilled Maternity/Neonatal Lead to join our team at NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB). The successful candidate will play a key role in driving transformation and quality improvement across maternity and neonatal services, ensuring that the voices of families are heard and their needs are met.

Key Responsibilities
  • Support the Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) and their Trust to ensure that their workstream of programmes are planned and managed effectively.
  • Act as a conduit linking the thoughts and feelings of service users to staff across the ICB, facilitating change and escalation of concerns to relevant organisations.
  • Deliver the agreed objectives of the Maternity and Neonatal Vulnerable Populations (MNVP) as set out in the annual workplan, using influence to drive highly effective and visible outcomes.
  • Represent the MNVP at local, regional, and national maternity and neonatal meetings and events, providing independent challenge and scrutiny based on evidence gathered from parents/carers and professionals.
  • Assist professionals in identifying and engaging with pregnant women/service users, parents, and their families at every level of change to enable authentic co-production.
  • Support the LMNS and their Trust to ensure that their workstream of programmes are planned and managed effectively, taking the lead in assisting in their successful delivery.
  • Be the main contact person for initial enquiries and delegation of work to the MNVP members, building strong influential relationships with providers, commissioners, and local system partners at all levels.
  • Seek to recognise, understand, and feedback the voices of families to influence quality, safety, and productivity of maternity and neonatal services, particularly those of marginalised and disadvantaged groups and communities.
  • Act as a leader for change and a critical friend to professionals, ensuring all activities and plans are effective, in line with current evidence and reflective of feedback gained through engagement with service users.
  • Recruit/induct volunteer service users and ensure they have access to appropriate training in order for the MNVP to deliver the agreed workplan.
  • Attend and chair formal MNVP meetings (no fewer than 4 a year), ensuring all stakeholders can contribute to this meeting.
  • To be aware of national reports, guidance, and policy to ensure work locally aligns and delivers the required outcomes.
About Us

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality.

The ICB's role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities for the million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex.

We are an exciting and vibrant organisation, and we're looking for people who share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services.



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