Job description

Job responsibilities

Introduction

The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System comprises the Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the statutory body for the NHS, and the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), which is a committee of the ICB, and brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations across the area. The ICS has a bold ambition to deliver improved outcomes for our 1.2m population through our four Alliances, and we are placing clinical and professional leadership and the voice of our residents at the heart of realising this ambition.

ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY

The Mid & South Essex Local Maternity & Neonatal System (LMNS) is a group of local system leaders that include provider, commissioner, and other local organisations, with the active involvement of service user representatives. The purpose of this role will be to lead the development and implementation of commissioning strategies for maternity and neonatal services aligned with the priorities and deliverables of the NHS Maternity Transformation programme (MTP) and the NHS Long Term Plan. The LMNS Programme and Commissioning Manager will work closely with the LMNS team to ensure maternity and neonatal services are safer, more personalised, more equitable, and meet the needs of the local population.

The post holder will provide strategic leadership to deliver the NHS England Three- Year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services. They will be responsible for providing programme management and commissioning expertise and for ensuring programmes and projects are delivered on time and within budget through the use of best practice methods and high-quality outputs. They will also recognise the importance of evaluation, to enable opportunities to demonstrate the impact of the quality improvement and transformation at local, regional, and national levels.

COMPETENCY BASED KEY DELIVERABLES

• Provide programme management leadership to deliver NHS Englands Three-Year Delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services, as part of the MTP, working with a range of internal and external stakeholders at both local, regional, and national levels.

• Be responsible for the commissioning of safe, personalised, and equitable maternity and neonatal services across Mid and South Essex, ensuring processes are in place to continuously monitor and evaluate their effectiveness.

• Lead on the development of the maternity service specification to ensure that service providers meet the appropriate compliance standards.

• Ensure that the voices of service users are central to decision making, as active members in the co-production of maternity and neonatal services. As part of this, support the continuous function of the Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP), ensuring they are commissioned in line with national guidance.

• Develop and lead non-clinical improvement or transformation projects to support the LMNS programme and hold responsibility for managing and monitoring the transformation funding resource.

• Provide programme and project management leadership and expertise to the LMNS, including wider stakeholders, to ensure implementation of the Three-Year Delivery Plan for maternity and neonatal services.

• Ensure robust LMNS/ICB governance processes are in place to meet regional and national NHSE reporting requirements.
• Support robust governance and assurance processes to facilitate the effective delivery of the LMNS programme, and its associated projects, including tracking actions and monitoring progress/performance, escalation of issues and demonstrating the successes and benefits delivered from individual programmes of work.

• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and provide highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Build and sustain effective working relationships throughout the local health and social care economy and within the wider public and voluntary sector community.

• Contribute to the MSE LMNS clinical governance agenda by setting, implementing, and evaluating best practice in maternity and neonatal care.
• Contribute to setting long term strategy ensuring the aims and objectives of the organisation/system are embedded and progressively built upon, as well as taking responsibility for the implementation of one or more plans which align with it.

• Responsible for one or more budgets.

• Can demonstrate and deliver acute business acumen in their area of responsibility ensuring value for money, understanding the business of partners and the driving factors for delivery in multiple sectors.

• Support other LMNS leads to identify the scope, objectives and outputs of projects and prepare associated project documentation e.g., Business cases, project initiation documents, project implementation plans, benefits realisation and risk analysis plans.

• Ensuring change and programmes of work are fully aligned with the requirements of the NHS Joint Forward Plan, ICS Strategy and NHS England policy requirements. Line management of staff members within the LMNS team.

Job responsibilities

Introduction

The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System comprises the Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the statutory body for the NHS, and the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), which is a committee of the ICB, and brings together key health, care, community, and voluntary sector organisations across the area. The ICS has a bold ambition to deliver improved outcomes for our 1.2m population through our four Alliances, and we are placing clinical and professional leadership and the voice of our residents at the heart of realising this ambition.

ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY

The Mid & South Essex Local Maternity & Neonatal System (LMNS) is a group of local system leaders that include provider, commissioner, and other local organisations, with the active involvement of service user representatives. The purpose of this role will be to lead the development and implementation of commissioning strategies for maternity and neonatal services aligned with the priorities and deliverables of the NHS Maternity Transformation programme (MTP) and the NHS Long Term Plan. The LMNS Programme and Commissioning Manager will work closely with the LMNS team to ensure maternity and neonatal services are safer, more personalised, more equitable, and meet the needs of the local population.

The post holder will provide strategic leadership to deliver the NHS England Three- Year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services. They will be responsible for providing programme management and commissioning expertise and for ensuring programmes and projects are delivered on time and within budget through the use of best practice methods and high-quality outputs. They will also recognise the importance of evaluation, to enable opportunities to demonstrate the impact of the quality improvement and transformation at local, regional, and national levels.

COMPETENCY BASED KEY DELIVERABLES

• Provide programme management leadership to deliver NHS Englands Three-Year Delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services, as part of the MTP, working with a range of internal and external stakeholders at both local, regional, and national levels.

• Be responsible for the commissioning of safe, personalised, and equitable maternity and neonatal services across Mid and South Essex, ensuring processes are in place to continuously monitor and evaluate their effectiveness.

• Lead on the development of the maternity service specification to ensure that service providers meet the appropriate compliance standards.

• Ensure that the voices of service users are central to decision making, as active members in the co-production of maternity and neonatal services. As part of this, support the continuous function of the Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP), ensuring they are commissioned in line with national guidance.

• Develop and lead non-clinical improvement or transformation projects to support the LMNS programme and hold responsibility for managing and monitoring the transformation funding resource.

• Provide programme and project management leadership and expertise to the LMNS, including wider stakeholders, to ensure implementation of the Three-Year Delivery Plan for maternity and neonatal services.

• Ensure robust LMNS/ICB governance processes are in place to meet regional and national NHSE reporting requirements.
• Support robust governance and assurance processes to facilitate the effective delivery of the LMNS programme, and its associated projects, including tracking actions and monitoring progress/performance, escalation of issues and demonstrating the successes and benefits delivered from individual programmes of work.

• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and provide highly complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Build and sustain effective working relationships throughout the local health and social care economy and within the wider public and voluntary sector community.

• Contribute to the MSE LMNS clinical governance agenda by setting, implementing, and evaluating best practice in maternity and neonatal care.
• Contribute to setting long term strategy ensuring the aims and objectives of the organisation/system are embedded and progressively built upon, as well as taking responsibility for the implementation of one or more plans which align with it.

• Responsible for one or more budgets.

• Can demonstrate and deliver acute business acumen in their area of responsibility ensuring value for money, understanding the business of partners and the driving factors for delivery in multiple sectors.

• Support other LMNS leads to identify the scope, objectives and outputs of projects and prepare associated project documentation e.g., Business cases, project initiation documents, project implementation plans, benefits realisation and risk analysis plans.

• Ensuring change and programmes of work are fully aligned with the requirements of the NHS Joint Forward Plan, ICS Strategy and NHS England policy requirements. Line management of staff members within the LMNS team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant Masters degree or extensive knowledge, skills and experience to equivalent level, or Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience
• Programme Management Qualification or equivalent level of experience or Management qualification or equivalent level of on-the-job experience.
• Evidence of continuing personal development.

Experience

Essential

• Substantial experience of working at a senior level in the specialism.
• Experience of leading, managing and delivering significant change management and change programmes/projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Experience of working at strategic level, able to recognise direction and implications of policy and the potentially competing priorities/interests.

Partnership Working / Leadership Management

Essential

• Can demonstrate partnership working and the understanding of how and when partnerships should be built, navigating, and understanding local, regional and national political positions in order to solutions that span across multiple stakeholders.
• Provide effective, inclusive, and compassionate leadership across own areas of responsibility, ensuring all voices are heard and creating and nurturing a culture where staff feel safe to speak up.
• Role model core behaviours including equity and diversity and maintaining a professional image at all times.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to share complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Takes personal responsibility for actions and their impact.
• Ability to work in a collaborative way across organisational/sector boundaries in order to achieve the highest quality outcomes for patients.

Knowledge / understanding

Essential

• In depth understanding of policies and practices within required field of work.
• An in-depth understanding of health care provision and awareness of current NHS policies and priorities.
• Advanced knowledge of relevant systems and procedures.

Skills

Essential

• Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills with staff at all levels using from the full range of methods as appropriate.
• High level of attention to detail.
• Prioritisation and organisation skills.
• Able to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues and often to changing timescales.
• Ability to prioritise own work and teams workload considering conflicting priorities and tight deadlines.
• Demonstrates ability to use sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate.

Other

Essential

• Personal qualities of honesty and integrity.
• Possess a confident and positive attitude and be self-motivated.
• Personal attributes include emotional intelligence, resilience, agility and flexibility, able to respond to competing demands as they arise.
• Ability to travel to attend meetings and attend for work at several locations, including home, for the purpose of hybrid working.

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant Masters degree or extensive knowledge, skills and experience to equivalent level, or Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience
• Programme Management Qualification or equivalent level of experience or Management qualification or equivalent level of on-the-job experience.
• Evidence of continuing personal development.

Experience

Essential

• Substantial experience of working at a senior level in the specialism.
• Experience of leading, managing and delivering significant change management and change programmes/projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Experience of working at strategic level, able to recognise direction and implications of policy and the potentially competing priorities/interests.

Partnership Working / Leadership Management

Essential

• Can demonstrate partnership working and the understanding of how and when partnerships should be built, navigating, and understanding local, regional and national political positions in order to solutions that span across multiple stakeholders.
• Provide effective, inclusive, and compassionate leadership across own areas of responsibility, ensuring all voices are heard and creating and nurturing a culture where staff feel safe to speak up.
• Role model core behaviours including equity and diversity and maintaining a professional image at all times.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to share complex information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Takes personal responsibility for actions and their impact.
• Ability to work in a collaborative way across organisational/sector boundaries in order to achieve the highest quality outcomes for patients.

Knowledge / understanding

Essential

• In depth understanding of policies and practices within required field of work.
• An in-depth understanding of health care provision and awareness of current NHS policies and priorities.
• Advanced knowledge of relevant systems and procedures.

Skills

Essential

• Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills with staff at all levels using from the full range of methods as appropriate.
• High level of attention to detail.
• Prioritisation and organisation skills.
• Able to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues and often to changing timescales.
• Ability to prioritise own work and teams workload considering conflicting priorities and tight deadlines.
• Demonstrates ability to use sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate.

Other

Essential

• Personal qualities of honesty and integrity.
• Possess a confident and positive attitude and be self-motivated.
• Personal attributes include emotional intelligence, resilience, agility and flexibility, able to respond to competing demands as they arise.
• Ability to travel to attend meetings and attend for work at several locations, including home, for the purpose of hybrid working.

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board

Address

Phoenix House

Christopher Martin Road

Basildon

Essex

SS14 3HG

Employer's website

https://www.midandsouthessex.ics.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)