Job overview

This is an opportunity for an experienced obstetric consultant with significant leadership experience and a special interest in maternal medicine to provide strategic clinical leadership across the Kent and Medway Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS). The postholder will work a wide range of local, regional and national stakeholders to support delivery of the ambition to make services safer, more personalised and more equitable.

The postholder will have responsibility and the opportunity to lead and influence quality improvement and transformation programmes in line with national policy and the 3 Year Delivery Plan for Maternity and Neonatal Services, across the four maternity provider Trusts within the LMNS. In addition, the post will take a strategic focus as the system lead obstetrician in the Kent and Medway Maternal Medicine Network (MMN), currently part of the South East London MMN. Working with the LMNS Consultant Obstetric Physician, the MMN Lead Midwife and the Trust site leads, where the aim is to ensure that women and birthing people with acute and chronic medical problems have timely access to specialist care.

Main duties of the job

• Work alongside and role model good multi professional behaviours working with obstetric colleagues and wider stakeholders across the LMNS to drive service change and transformation in maternity and neonatal services through effective clinical leadership and engagement across Kent & Medway.
• Focus on the quality of maternity services within the LMNS including sharing intelligence and working with other key partners and regulators across and outside the system to improve quality of care and outcomes.
• Be responsible for building partnerships and collaborating with provider Trusts, public health, local government, primary care, provider collaboratives, the SE London Maternal Medicine Centre and other partners, including local people to deliver better access, improvements in life outcomes and reductions in health inequity.
• Work with the SE London Maternal Medicine Network leads as a part of the MMN leadership team, and alongside the system Consultant Obstetric Physician and the MMN Lead Midwife as part of the system leadership team for the Kent and Medway MMN.
• Be a member of the LMNS executive board and system governance groups to provide clinical advice and leadership to inform decision making, and chair clinically focused programme and project groups where strong clinical leadership is key to achieving the outcomes required.

Working for our organisation

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.

We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.