Maternity Clinical Project Lead

Job overview

Sarah Latham, our Director of Midwifery of the Homerton Healthcare is establishing a team of midwifery leaders and we are looking for an exceptional midwife for the Clinical Project Manager role to join the team on our journey of excellence!

This position is fixed term project lead, whose main role is to identify, initiate and manage the various projects within the division and act as provider level leadership to the maternity transformation programme within the Trust and LMNS level.

The post holder will work with clinical and managerial colleagues across the maternity services and wider health systems, they will lead on scoping current practices including but not exclusively, staffing establishments, community estates and maternity care pathways. They will ensure the service is fully functional to support transformational change and a safe service that is aligned to the Better births and national agenda.

This position requires a highly motivated individual with leadership and problem-solving skills; closely working with the Senior Midwifery, neonatal and Obstetric teams to ensure the development of robust project delivery of the work streams.

The post holder will facilitate the Maternity Incentive Scheme (MIS/CNST), Service Transformation Programmes and responses to national reports such as CQC, Ockenden and will be willing to unblock barriers; problem solve emerging issues and prioritise areas for focused service improvement.

Main duties of the job

Some of the main duties are as follows:

• Have a leading role in leading on the maternity programme work stream especially MIS/CNST and objectives within the Trust. Plan and provide training on the Maternity Incentive Scheme standards.
• Scope and implement the maternity programmes and lead on new initiatives for service improvement.
• Be the main point of contact and conduit between the identified work streams for internal and care system wide teams. Support the monitoring and reporting on the programmes progress and outcomes, including checking, challenging, gathering data and completing reporting and assurance templates.
• Disseminate good practice prospectively as they are captured from work stream.
• Work with finance staff to provide assurance over financial elements of work streams. Support work streams by providing assistance in the development of financial phasing of work streams and tracking the delivery of cost savings.
• Apply strong analytical skills, analysing complex issues where material is drawn from multiple sources might be incomplete or conflicting.
• Responsibility for planning and organisation of allocated projects and tasks with advice and guidance from the Maternity Programme Managers, within agreed objectives and manage the benefits, risks, and dependencies of key issues specific to the work streams.
• Oversight of the project budget, specifically the maternity transformation funding provided.

Detailed job description and main 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 on this page.

The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.