Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital and Charity
Deputy Lead Nurse - WMPN (Quality, Safety and Improvement)
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Role Overview
Reporting to the Lead Nurse – ODNs, the postholder will manage, support, and develop the West Midlands Children’s Operational Delivery Networks (ODNs), particularly Neonatal ODN. The postholder will provide clinical expertise to support the overall programme of work to develop and strengthen networks together with building, managing, and maintaining strong and collaborative working relationships with all the key stakeholders across the networks and their member organisations.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Lead Nurse - ODNs and Associate Director of Operations - ODNs, the clinical and managerial leads of the network, and all the relevant individual provider and commissioning organisations across the West Midlands region.
- Support the work of the Lead Nurse and act as a champion for patients and their interests, ensuring the patients’ voice is at the heart of clinical network activities and patients are at the centre of network models of care and underpinning pathways.
- Build and maintain excellent relationships and foster a culture of collaborative working.
- Be structured in thinking and able to organise, plan, and execute a complex programme of quality and improvement (QI) that spans a wide range of provider, commissioner, and patient organisations.
- Facilitate the bringing together of different perspectives and partners from across the network and, when needed, act as an ‘honest broker’ reconciling conflicting views and interests.
- Engage, design, facilitate, and support the delivery of initiatives to improve services, drive quality, and improvement.
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ODNs Overview
Birmingham Women’s & Children’s NHSFT hosts five West Midlands Specialised Women’s and Children’s ODNs:
- Perinatal – Neonatal, Fetal Medicine, Placenta Acreta Spectrum
- Paediatric Critical Care
- Surgery in Children
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Children & Young People’s/Teenage & Young Adults Cancer ODNs
Trust Overview
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children, and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
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Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity, and neonatal care.
Equality and Inclusion
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity, and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Fiona Terry
- Job title: Lead Nurse - Quality, Safety and Improvement
- Email address: fiona.terry2@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07554928584
Note: The mobile number is available 9am-5pm or please leave a message.
Duration
The post is a secondment for 12 months.
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