Director of Midwifery and Children's Services

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Other

  Ability to travel throughout the health Board locality and across Wales/UK as required

• Other

  Flexible to the needs of the service

• Other

  Able to participate in on-call rota

• Experience

  Significant post registration experience at a very senior midwifery level

• Experience

  Significant senior operational management experience across healthcare sectors

• Experience

  Experience of developing and implementing governance frameworks to support service delivery and service charge

• Experience

  Demonstratable experience delivering positive service improvement at a senior level

• Experience

  Extensive experience of leading and successfully implementing service improvement/design programme in a multidisciplinary environment/across a range of services

• Experience

  Developing and delivering governance systems including management and mitigation of risk

• Experience

  Extensive experience of effective patient/public/customer involvement

• Experience

  Proven ability to work across organisational boundaries, develop networks and alliances, project a vision and obtain ownership and commitment from stakeholders.

• Experience

  Experience of managing conduct/professional issues

• Experience

  Complaints management and experience of the litigation process

• Experience

  Significant experience of providing senior professional leadership and assurance across services, or deonstrable experience of working at executive or divisional level with responsibility for professional nursing standards, workforce and quality governance.

• Qualifications

  Educated to Masters’ Degree Level or equivalent level of work experience

• Qualifications

  Registered Midwife with current NMC Registration

• Qualifications

  Highly specialised and in-depth professional knowledge and experience from a range of midwifery and nursing disciplines across the services of the Health Board

• Qualifications

  Evidence of strong and recent Continuous Professional Development

• Qualifications

  Highly relevant specialise clinical knowledge relating to sphere or responsibilities

• Qualifications

  Clear understanding of the concept and working arrangements of diverse clinical areas

• Qualifications

  Extensive in-depth knowledge and understanding of a range of issues across the NHS and NHS patient agenda

• Qualifications

  High level knowledge of all current issues related to professional midwifery and nursing practice.

• Qualifications

  Has a good understanding of research and can demonstrate how research has influenced their practice.

• Qualifications

  Evidence of highly developed knowledge of professional nursing standards and the governance of nursing practice across children's, family, community or related services

• Skills and Atributes

  Highly developed analytical and problem solving skills, capable of interpreting and evaluating comlex, multi-faceted information, ability to summarise complex information, ability to make judgements and advise on the best course of action

• Skills and Atributes

  Ability to present highly complex/controversial information to a wide range of audiences, with differing levels of understanding, in a suitable format an with appropriate explanation

• Skills and Atributes

  Ability to influence, persuade and motivate others

• Skills and Atributes

  Ability to collaborate constructively with all key stakeholders (internal and external) and to crate the conditions for successful partnership working

• Skills and Atributes

  Ability to provide a clear vision for change which is a source of inspiration and motivation for others. Skilled in all aspects of managing change, including supporting staff

• Skills and Atributes

  Ability to monitor and act to improve and deliver performance and establish high levels of quality and to hold others to account for delivery

• Skills and Atributes

  Highly skilled in identifying opportunities for partnership working. managing on going stakeholder relationships and proving support to others int his area

• Skills and Atributes

  Highly-developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams across the Health Board.

• Skills and Atributes

  Be able to articulate the evolving strategy and vision for the future of nursing and be able to demonstrate the opportunities this will provide

• Skills and Atributes

  Ability to analyse complex clinical issues/problems, identify necessary action and make recommendations and follow these through

• Skills and Atributes

  Ability to demonstrate emotional leadership skills and apply to appropriate situations

• Skills and Atributes

  High level of work organisation. self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement and flexibility in approach

• Skills and Atributes

  Highly developed communication skills to resolve complex, high-impact situations in highly complex environments

• Skills and Atributes

  Standard keyboard skills, with familiarity with the Microsoft Office Suite