# Deputy Lead Nurse - WMPN (Quality, Safety and Improvement) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-lead-nurse-wmpn-quality-safety-and-improvement/d1da6515-f195-46ec-84ae-0c51d3ce83b1 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-lead-nurse-wmpn-quality-safety-and-improvement/d1da6515-f195-46ec-84ae-0c51d3ce83b1.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Birmingham Children's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed Term or Secondment) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (n/a) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-29T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-15T12:11:23.574Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Birmingham/Birmingham_Womens_Childrens_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Nursing/Nursing-v8265935 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8265935?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bwc.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Reporting to the Lead Nurse – ODNs the postholder will manage, support and develop the West Midlands Children’s Operational Delivery Networks (ODNs), particularly Neonatal ODN. The postholder will provide clinical expertise to support the overall programme of work to develop and strengthen networks together with building, managing and maintaining strong and collaborative working relationships with all the key stakeholders across the networks and their member organisations. The postholder will work closely with the Lead Nurse - ODNs and Associate Director of Operations - ODNs, the clinical and managerial leads of the network and all the relevant individual provider and commissioning organisations across the West Midlands region. The postholder will support the work of the Lead Nurse and act as a champion for patients and their interests, ensuring the patients’ voice is at the heart of clinical network activities and patients are at the centre of network models of care and underpinning pathways. Whilst the ODN team is employed by BWC, the ODNs act autonomously and are clinically led to support all of our member organisations. With this new group of ODNs we are aiming to build a collective which advocates for the needs of children and young people requiring NHS acute care (from birth to early adulthood). ### Main duties of the job The post holder will need to be proficient at building and maintaining excellent relationships and at fostering a culture of collaborative working. They will need to be structured in their thinking and able to organise, plan and execute a complex programme of quality and improvement (QI) that spans a wide range of provider, commissioner and patient organisations. They will need the experience, skills and personal credibility to facilitate the bringing together of different perspectives and partners from across the network and, when needed, to act as an ‘honest broker’ reconciling conflicting views and interests. Given that the role will support transformation of the provision of neonatal services across the West Midlands, they will possess the relevant experience and skills to be able to engage, design, facilitate and support the delivery of initiatives to improve services drive quality and Improvement Birmingham Women’s & Children’s NHSFT hosts five West Midlands Specialised Women’s and Children’s ODNs: - Perinatal – Neonatal, Fetal Medicine, Placenta Acreta Spectrum - Paediatric Critical Care - Surgery in Children - Congenital Heart Disease - Children & Young People’s/Teenage & Young Adults Cancer ODNs ODNs are commissioned to create connectivity across the providers of a service within a geography, facilitating consistency of care, equity of access, quality improvement and operational effectiveness. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable). Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - NMC Registration - Relevant post-registration qualification (QiS) - Degree in Nursing (or equivalent) - Evidence of relevant continued professional development - Teaching and Assessing Qualification **Desirable** - Master's level qualification in a healthcare related subject (or equivalent experience) - Quality Improvement Qualification e.g. QSIR, PRINCE II (or equivalent experience) ### Analytical and Judgment Skills **Essential** - Evidence of knowledge regarding clinical audit - Able to apply judgement to complex sets of facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options and enable making recommendations to Trusts across the region ### Knowledge & Nature of Experience **Essential** - Sound knowledge and experience in managing the care of the neonate - Working knowledge of neonatal operational nursing leadership - Evidence / experience in managing quality & improvement, including leadership of project work - Significant experience in supporting colleagues - Understanding of Local and National policy drivers - Experience of engaging or managing others to enable achievement of project/development aims and objectives **Desirable** - Experience of working within an ODN - Evidence / experience of service development / change management initiatives ### Personal Skills/ Abilities and Attributes **Essential** - Articulate in a professional and confident manor - Good communication and interpersonal skills - Ability to influence, motivate and engage others as well as lead teams / projects - Good analytical and problem-solving skills - Excellent organisational skills - Ability to identify and professionally manage situations of conflict - Ability to translate research and national Policy in service improvement - Ability to plan and deliver complex initiatives - Ability to adapt to ensure achievement of objectives within constantly changing landscapes and situations **Desirable** - Understanding of change management methodologies ### Professional/ Managerial / Specialist Knowledge **Essential** - Proactive, self-motivated with the ability to motivate others - Ability to work independently and demonstrate autonomous/decision making - Ability to manage own workload - Competence with Microsoft Office software including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Canva ## Documents - [jd/ps (pdf, 412.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10580302) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.