Maternity Commissioner

Job overview

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NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board is seeking an experienced and motivated Maternity Commissioner to join our Nursing, Quality and Improvement team.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence the future of maternity and neonatal services across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, working within a complex and evolving healthcare system focused on improving outcomes, reducing inequalities, and delivering high-quality care for women, babies and families.

The role is offered on a 30-hour basis and includes agile working, with a minimum expectation of regular office presence and system-wide engagement across provider and partner organisations.

What We Offer:

Flexible and agile working arrangements

Opportunity to influence maternity and neonatal transformation at system level

A supportive and collaborative team environment

Professional development opportunities

NHS Pension Scheme and employee benefits package

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact: Margaret Beattie Associate Director for Maternity and Neonatal at margaret.beattie6@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

The postholder will lead and support the commissioning of maternity and neonatal services across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. The role includes working closely with provider trusts, Local Maternity and Neonatal providers, NHS England, service users, primary care, public health and wider system stakeholders.

You will play a key role in ensuring that maternity and neonatal services to deliver the strategic objectives of Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICB in:

• Improved personalised neighbourhood care
• Greater Prevention
• Smarter use of technology and data
• Better value
• Thriving Workforce

The role includes oversight of:

Service transformation and improvement,

System governance and escalation processes,

Commissioning intentions and pathways,

Equity and personalised care initiatives,

Stakeholder and service-user engagement,

Performance monitoring and contractual oversight,

We are looking for someone with:

Experience within maternity, neonatal, commissioning, and quality improvement environments.

Understanding of NHS maternity and neonatal policy.

Experience of working collaboratively across organisational boundaries.

The ability to manage complex operational and strategic priorities.

Excellent communication, influencing and relationship-building skills.

A compassionate, inclusive and improvement-focused leadership style.

Candidates with commissioning or operational leadership experience are welcomed.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Working closely with the Associate Director for Maternity and Neonatal, you will:

• Lead and support commissioning and service improvement across HIOW maternity and neonatal services.
• Drive local commissioning agendas to ensure services meet population needs, alongside improving health inequalities.
• System collaboration across the HIOW geography — including Hampshire, Southampton, Isle of Wight, and Portsmouth with clinicians, managers, public health, local authorities, and voluntary sector partners.
• Champion engagement and co-production to shape and deliver impactful safety, quality and improvement.

You will play a key role in developing and implementing commissioning strategies, ensuring alignment with national and local system priorities and goals.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.