Director of MidwiferyinStevenageinStevenagePUBLISHED FRI 7 MAR 2025
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As a strategic thinker with senior-level experience, you’ll influence change within our organisation and beyond, helping shape the future of women’s health services. You will partner with key stakeholders to deliver high-quality, sustainable maternity care, ensuring we meet national standards and organisational goals. If you’re ready to champion quality and lead transformational improvements in midwifery services, we would love to hear from you. Embrace this chance to contribute to a compassionate healthcare environment where excellence and respect for all are at the heart of what we do.
We are seeking aninspiring and forward-thinking Director of Midwifery to lead our teams in delivering exceptional care and achieving our strategic ambitions.
This is a unique opportunity for an innovative and collaborative leader who is passionate about making a difference. You will bring the drive, energy, compassion, and resilience needed to shape a culture where women and families receive outstanding care and where our teams are empowered to thrive, grow and care together.
With proven experience operating at a senior strategic level, you will use your exceptional leadership skills to influence and drive improvements both within our organisation and across wider system and national networks.
If you're ready to play a key role in leading transformational change and delivering excellence in midwifery care, we would love to hear from you.
Above all else, the Director of Midwifery will embody our values - focused on patients, continuously improving, and innovating through collaboration and teamwork, striving for excellence, and being respectful of others and the role that they play in delivering and receiving healthcare across the county.
The Director of Midwifery & Women's Services is a key position, professionally accountable to the Chief Nurse with a prime focus on the strategic delivery of high standards of women's care across integrated care pathways and services.
The role involves working in partnership with other organisations in the provision and planning of universal health services, taking forward national polices for maternity services to develop a long-term strategic vision that enables high quality and sustainable services.
The role involves working across the ICS and to develop and maintain a network of mutually beneficial relationships with Maternity providers, Public Health England, Heath Education England, Care Quality Commission, Royal Colleges, and other key stakeholders. You will have overall responsibility for the strategic and operational clinical safety standards.
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