• Job Description

  Req#: C9259-25-1384?language=en&page=902&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  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 (taylor.cornwell@nhs.net) to arrange a meeting with Rumbi Mutema, Interim Associate Director of Midwifery or Lynn Maycroft, Deputy Head of Midwifery

  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 Schemesafety 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.

  About us

  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.

  Details

  Date posted

  16 June 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 8a

  Salary

  £59,490 to £66,239 a year Per annum inc (Pay Award Pending)

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  259-7279849WXH

  Job locations

  Whipps Cross Hospital

  London

  E11 1NR

  
  

  Job description

  Job 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.

  Job description

  Job 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

  • Educated to Master's level or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development.

  Desirable

  • Project & Programme management and Change Management qualifications (e.g. Prince 2, MSP, Agile, APMP)

  Experience

  Essential

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Previous experience of delivering elements of CNST

  Skills

  Essential

  • 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

  • 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.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Educated to Master's level or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development.

  Desirable

  • Project & Programme management and Change Management qualifications (e.g. Prince 2, MSP, Agile, APMP)

  Experience

  Essential

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Previous experience of delivering elements of CNST

  Skills

  Essential

  • 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

  • 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.

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Barts Health NHS Trust

  Address

  Whipps Cross Hospital

  London

  E11 1NR

  
  

  Employer's website

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

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Barts Health NHS Trust

  Address

  Whipps Cross Hospital

  London

  E11 1NR

  
  

  Employer's website

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

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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