Job requirements
Essential
1 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Applicants must demonstrate current professional registration and senior clinical expertise in obstetrics or neonatal care, with consultant-level experience or equivalent senior clinical leadership experience.
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job overview
An exciting leadership opportunity in maternity transformation
Are you an experienced, dynamic, and enthusiastic clinical leader, who is passionate about driving safer, more personalised care for women and families? Do you have experience working at a system or regional level, with a proven ability to lead and give technical advice across all function of the ICB. Ensuring that strategic and operational decisions are underpinned by robust clinical evidence, governance and population health priorities. If so, we would love to hear from you.
We are seeking an obstetric and neonatal consultant to join our ICB, Senior Leadership Team on a fixed-term 18-months contract. This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly motivated individual to play a pivotal role in aligning clinical insight with system transformation, commissioning, quality improvement, and service delivery.
If you are passionate about perinatal safety and ready for a leadership challenge at system level, we invite you to apply and join us in transforming perinatal services for our local families.
Main duties of the job
About the role:
This role will support CE ICB to provide senior clinical leadership that supports quality, safety, and transformation across the perinatal pathway. Perinatal transformation will be led by the Quality Improvement & Patient Team. This role will include advising the ICB and supporting individual providers when appropriate. This role will play a pivotal role in supporting understanding of best practice, benchmarking current position and advising on change. This role offers the opportunity to champion the needs of families across central East community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role please see the job description and person specification attached
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
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This advert is for Clinical Lead - Neonatal Consultant with NHS Central East ICB in Shefford, United Kingdom. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Paediatrics role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is 18 months (Fixed Term). The application deadline is 22 Oct 2026.
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