Project / Neonatal Manager

TheMaternity and Neonatal Programme Team leads and co-ordinates implementation ofthe findings of the National Maternity Review Better Births, the Neonatal Critical Care Review (NCCR) and more recently the Maternity and Neonatal three year delivery plan (which includes recommendations from the East Kent Review and Ockenden reports)

In a matrix setting, the post holder will support delivery of:

-recommendation 1 from the East Kent Review, which comprises a number of complex projects focusing on implementing more timely data and signal systems to improve safety monitoring, as well as key roles in the commissioning of the annual CQC Maternity Survey and a new neonatal experience survey. Further responsibilities will involve implementation of the maternity and neonatal recommendations within the Maternity and Neonatal Three-Year Delivery Plan.

-support to regions and Integrated Care Systems to deliver the Maternity and Neonatal Three Year Delivery plan. This will include support for regions, Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) learning and sharing events, support for the delivery and implementation of the Perinatal Quality Surveillance Model (PQSM) and supporting oversight of national objectives.

The post holder will work with key partner organizations including Integrated Care Systems, the Department of Health and Social Care, the Care Quality Commission, Royal Colleges, the National Clinical Director for Maternity and Chief Midwifery Officer.

Main duties of the job

This is a specialist role working across different portfolios in the Maternity and Neonatal Programme. Chiefly, this will requires subject matter expertise in both running projects that develop tools for maternity and neonatal services which track trends in clinical outcomes and critical safety data, as well as expertise in developing processes that enable effective oversight for maternity and neonatal services in Integrated Care Systems under the NHS England Operating Framework (2022). The framework describes the roles that NHS England, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and NHS providers have in the wider health and care system and shows how accountabilities and responsibilities will be allocated to improve local health and care outcomes in a way that maximises taxpayer value for money.

A foundational knowledge of maternity and neonatal data sources and experience of the challenges of establishing high quality, timely and complete data and maternity and neonatal indicators is required. Similarly, experience of engagement with Integrated Care System colleagues and frontline clinicians to embed transformative action is also required.

This role will involve providing effective governance, secretariat, project, business and stakeholder management, as well as more specialist functions (see job description for full details).

The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.


• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.


• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care


• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation


• Delivering value for money.