Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Project Lead

Overview

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 26 February 2026

We are looking for an exceptional midwife to join the senior leadership team as Maternity & Neonatal Clinical Project Manager as we work towards our journey of excellence!

The person will support both the neonatal and maternity teams by coordinating, identifying, initiating and managing projects within the division and act as provider level leadership to the maternity transformation programme within the Trust and the LMNS.

The post holder will work with clinical and managerial colleagues across the maternity services and wider health systems, they will lead on scoping current practices including but not exclusively, staffing establishments, community estates and maternity care pathways. They will ensure the service is fully functional to support transformational change and a safe service that is aligned to the national Q&S agenda.

This position requires a highly motivated individual with leadership and problem-solving skills; closely working with the Senior Midwifery, neonatal and Obstetric teams to ensure the development of robust project delivery of the work streams.

The post holder will support the Maternity Incentive Scheme , Service Transformation Programmes and responses to national reports such as CQC, Ockenden, SDP, MOSS and help navigate and unblock barriers; problem solve emerging issues and prioritise areas for focused service improvement.

Some of the main duties are as follows:

• Have a leading role in leading on the maternity programme work stream especially MIS/CNST and objectives within the Trust. Plan and provide training on the Maternity Incentive Scheme standards.
• Scope and implement the maternity programmes and lead on new initiatives for service improvement.
• Be the main point of contact and conduit between the identified work streams for internal and care system wide teams. Support the monitoring and reporting on the programmes progress and outcomes, including checking, challenging, gathering data and completing reporting and assurance templates.
• Disseminate good practice prospectively as they are captured from work stream.
• Work with finance staff to provide assurance over financial elements of work streams. Support work streams by providing assistance in the development of financial phasing of work streams and tracking the delivery of cost savings.
• Apply strong analytical skills, analysing complex issues where material is drawn from multiple sources might be incomplete or conflicting.
• Responsibility for planning and organisation of allocated projects and tasks with advice and guidance from the Maternity Programme Managers, within agreed objectives and manage the benefits, risks, and dependencies of key issues specific to the work streams.
• Oversight of the project budget, specifically the maternity transformation funding provided.
• Provide on call support to the on call rota

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are immensely proud that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to…