Associate Director of Midwifery & Quality

Job summary

NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is seeking an exceptional and highly motivated individual to provide strategic leadership, expert professional advice and system-wide influence across West Yorkshire. The Associate Director of Midwifery & Quality provides senior system leadership across maternity and neonatal services within the West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (WY ICB). They provide specialist expertise to the ICB, executive directors, commissioning manager, provider organisations, clinical leaders, and regional/national maternity programmes, ensuring policy, regulatory compliance, performance standards, and system wide improvement are achieved to ensure quality and safety are an integral part of all commissioning activities and service improvement initiatives.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the on-going development, implementation and monitoring of plans and policies in relation to the quality assurance, clinical governance, service user experience agenda in relation to the duties of the ICB. Support the Executive Nurse Director and Deputy Directors of Nursing and Quality actively engaging with healthcare professionals across maternity and neonatal services to promote clinical engagement and involvement in commissioning and contracting for quality improvement. Inform the strategic direction for the ICB in respect of the systems and processes for Commissioning for Quality Outcomes and the management of clinical governance in line with national policy and local requirements, in relation to maternity and neonatal services. Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the quality assurance agenda to enable sustained improvements to be made at the interface with partner organisations. Network effectively to ensure good practice, new ideas and lessons are learned and shared. Deal with conflict and disagreement as it arises with peers, contractors, clinicians and members of the public in a prompt and assertive way, ensuring that the ICB values and reputation are not compromised.

About us

We are proud of what we have achieved as a Health and Care Partnership since our establishment in 2016, and as an Integrated Care Board (ICB) within that Partnership since July 2022.

Our ICB has four core purposes:

• Improving outcomes in peoples health and healthcare

• Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access

• Enhancing productivity and value for money

• Supporting broader social and economic development.

We aim to make a difference to peoples lives by supporting providers and local health systems to further improve the way they deliver care for people and communities. Our staff are highly professional with the expertise, skills and knowledge to make a lasting impact across the NHS, and they are vital to the ICBs success.