Deputy Lead Nurse - WMPN; Quality, Safety and Improvement

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Main area Nursing Grade 7 Contract 12 months (Fixed Term or Secondment) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (n/a) Job --COCM

Site Vincent Drive Town Birmingham Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 29/09/2026 23:59 Interview date 05/10/2026

Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.

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 for the needs of children and young people requiring NHS acute care (from birth to early adulthood).

The post holder will need to be proficient at building and maintaining excellent relationships and at fostering a culture of collaborative working. They will need to be structured in their 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. They will need the experience, skills and personal credibility to facilitate the bringing together of different perspectives and partners from across the network and, when needed, to act as an ‘honest broker’ reconciling conflicting views and interests.

Given that the role will support transformation of the provision of neonatal services across the West Midlands, they will possess the relevant experience and skills to be able to engage, design, facilitate and…