Deputy Lead Nurse - WMPN (Quality, Safety and Improvement)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves managing, supporting, and developing the West Midlands Children's Operational Delivery Networks (ODNs), with a particular focus on the Neonatal ODN. The postholder will provide clinical expertise to support quality and improvement initiatives, build collaborative relationships with stakeholders, and ensure the patient's voice is central to network activities. It requires strong relationship-building skills and the ability to lead complex quality improvement programmes across various organisations.
Essential criteria
- NMC Registration
- Relevant post-registration qualification (QiS)
- Degree in Nursing (or equivalent)
- Evidence of relevant continued professional development
- Teaching and Assessing Qualification
Desirable criteria
- Master's level qualification in a healthcare related subject (or equivalent experience)
- Quality Improvement Qualification e.g. QSIR, PRINCE II (or equivalent experience)
- Knowledge & Nature of Experience
- Sound knowledge and experience in managing the care of the neonate
- Working knowledge of neonatal operational nursing leadership
- Evidence / experience in managing quality & improvement, including leadership of project work
- Significant experience in supporting colleagues
- Understanding of Local and National policy drivers
- Experience of engaging or managing others to enable achievement of project/development aims and objectives
- Experience of working within an ODN
- Evidence / experience of service development / change management initiatives
- Analytical and Judgment Skills
- Evidence of knowledge regarding clinical audit
- Able to apply judgement to complex sets of facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options and enable making recommendations to Trusts across the region
- Professional/ Managerial / Specialist Knowledge
- Proactive, self-motivated with the ability to motivate others
- Ability to work independently and demonstrate autonomous/decision making
- Ability to manage own workload
- Competence with Microsoft Office software including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Canva
- Personal Skills/ Abilities and Attributes
- Articulate in a professional and confident manor
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to influence, motivate and engage others as well as lead teams / projects
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to identify and professionally manage situations of conflict
- Ability to translate research and national Policy in service improvement
- Ability to plan and deliver complex initiatives
- Ability to adapt to ensure achievement of objectives within constantly changing landscapes and situations
- Understanding of change management methodologies
- NMC Registration
- Relevant post-registration qualification (QiS)
- Degree in Nursing (or equivalent)
- Evidence of relevant continued professional development
- Teaching and Assessing Qualification
- Master's level qualification in a healthcare related subject (or equivalent experience)
- Quality Improvement Qualification e.g. QSIR, PRINCE II (or equivalent experience)
- Knowledge & Nature of Experience
- Sound knowledge and experience in managing the care of the neonate
- Working knowledge of neonatal operational nursing leadership
- Evidence / experience in managing quality & improvement, including leadership of project work
- Significant experience in supporting colleagues
- Understanding of Local and National policy drivers
- Experience of engaging or managing others to enable achievement of project/development aims and objectives
- Experience of working within an ODN
- Evidence / experience of service development / change management initiatives
- Analytical and Judgment Skills
- Evidence of knowledge regarding clinical audit
- Able to apply judgement to complex sets of facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options and enable making recommendations to Trusts across the region
- Professional/ Managerial / Specialist Knowledge
- Proactive, self-motivated with the ability to motivate others
- Ability to work independently and demonstrate autonomous/decision making
- Ability to manage own workload
- Competence with Microsoft Office software including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Canva
- Personal Skills/ Abilities and Attributes
- Articulate in a professional and confident manor
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to influence, motivate and engage others as well as lead teams / projects
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to identify and professionally manage situations of conflict
- Ability to translate
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Deputy Lead Nurse - WMPN (Quality, Safety and Improvement)
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
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.
The postholder will 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. The postholder will 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.
Whilst the ODN team is employed by BWC, the ODNs act autonomously and are clinically led to support all of our member organisations. With this new group of ODNs we are aiming to build a collective which advocates
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