Job summary
- Main area
- Quality Improvement
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 990-NEY-EC6292-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellington Place
- Town
- Leeds
- Salary
- £66,582 - £77,368 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Quality Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Our Organisation
We share the core values set out in the NHS Constitution, which all colleagues are expected to demonstrate.
We support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you and your colleagues. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement, whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern.
As part of our commitment to improving patient safety and maintaining safe and trusted services, all successful candidates will be subject to Baseline Personnel Security Screening (BPSS), which includes a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. By submitting your application, you are confirming your agreement to these checks being undertaken as part of the recruitment process.
Anyone who has received a voluntary or compulsory redundancy payment from NHS England since the start of the 2026/27 financial year is not eligible to apply.
Job overview
Are you an experienced senior midwifery leader with a passion for improving quality, safety and outcomes for women, babies and families?
We are seeking two exceptional Senior Clinical Quality Managers to join the Regional Nursing and Quality Team within the North East and Yorkshire Region. This is an exciting opportunity for a registered midwife to influence quality improvement at a strategic level and contribute to the delivery of safer, more equitable maternity and neonatal services across the region.
Working alongside the Regional Chief Midwife and Deputy Regional Chief Midwife, you will play a key role in delivering the regional perinatal quality portfolio, providing expert leadership, assurance and support to providers and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs). You will help identify emerging quality risks, support challenged organisations, oversee improvement activity and ensure that women, babies and families receive high-quality, safe care.
Main duties of the job
What you'll be doing
- Leading quality surveillance and assurance activities across maternity and perinatal services.
- Supporting quality improvement programmes and targeted interventions within providers and ICBs.
- Identifying early indicators of quality concerns and supporting organisations to implement sustainable improvement plans.
- Analysing and interpreting complex quality data and intelligence to inform decision-making.
- Preparing strategic briefings and reports for senior leaders and stakeholders.
- Working collaboratively across NHS England, Integrated Care Systems, providers and wider partners.
- Deputising for the Regional Chief Midwife or Deputy Regional Chief Midwife when required.
Working for our organisation
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
About you
We are looking for a compassionate and credible leader who can operate effectively in complex and politically sensitive environments.
You will be:
- A Registered Midwife with current NMC registration.
- Educated to degree level, with a master's degree or equivalent senior leadership experience.
- Experienced in senior leadership within the NHS or a healthcare-related environment.
- Knowledgeable in quality improvement methodologies and clinical quality assurance.
- Skilled at interpreting complex information, analysing data and presenting clear recommendations.
- An excellent communicator with strong influencing and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Passionate about improving outcomes, reducing inequalities and supporting innovation across maternity services.
This is an opportunity to influence maternity and neonatal care across one of England's largest regions at a time of significant transformation. You will work with highly experienced clinical and operational leaders, contribute to regional and national priorities, and help shape the future of services for women, babies and families.
At NHS England, we are committed to creating an inclusive, supportive and high-performing organisation where everyone can thrive. We value diversity, collaboration, compassion and continuous improvement, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.
Location
Base location flexible within the North East and Yorkshire Region, with the expectation of consistent onsite support in providers and regular regional travel required.
If you are an experienced senior midwife who wants to make a difference beyond a single organisation and drive quality improvement at scale, we would love to hear from you.
Apply today and help shape safer, better care for women, babies and families across North East and Yorkshire.
This influential role will involve identifying emerging quality risks, supporting challenged organisations, analysing complex intelligence, and driving improvement programmes across the region. You will work closely with system partners and senior leaders to improve outcomes and reduce inequalities for women, babies and families.
We are looking for someone who:
- Is a Registered Midwife with current NMC registration.
- Has significant senior leadership experience within the NHS or a healthcare setting.
- Has expertise in quality improvement, quality assurance and clinical governance.
- Can analyse complex information and translate it into meaningful action.
- Has excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Is committed to delivering high-quality, equitable care and driving continuous improvement.
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife with NMC
- Degree level qualification or equivalent in relevant discipline
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience at a senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
- Experience of budgetary responsibility, including budget setting with evidence of working knowledge of financial processes
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- bility to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery
- Strong internal and external communication skills in a politically sensitive environment Highly developed communication skills with the capability to analyse, review and make sense of complex, sensitive or contentious information
- Demonstrable experience developing, managing and motivating teams/individuals to ensure succes
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tracey Cooper
- Job title
- Chief Midwife
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07783815748
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