Self -Employed-Epsom Maternity Chair for the MNVP

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Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP) - Self Employed Opportunity. This is not a direct report to ESTH. Closing date: 02 November 2025. Remuneration: £18.75 per hour incl HCAS outer pro rata, with reimbursement of childcare and travel expenses.

Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP) listens to the experiences of women, birthing people and families, and brings together service users, staff and other stakeholders to plan, review and improve maternity and neonatal care. MNVPs ensure that service users' voices are at the heart of decision-making in maternity and neonatal services by being embedded within the leadership of provider Trusts and feeding into the Local Maternity and Neonatal System and Integrated Care Board. This influences improvements in the safety, quality, and experience of maternity and neonatal care. We work to ensure that every woman and birthing person on the maternity and neonatal pathway has a chance to have their voice heard. We do not speak for them.

The role of MNVP Maternity Lead is key to providing inclusive and collaborative leadership and ways of working, ensuring that all women and birthing people and their families' views are heard and acted on. This is an exciting opportunity to review, shape and improve services and make a real difference to women, birthing people and their families.

There is an expectation to attend regular Trust meetings. However, the role is largely flexible, working 7 hours per week. The successful candidate will be remunerated for their time. The role of MNVP Maternity Lead provides an opportunity to become part of a vibrant team, improving care for our service users and enabling voices and engagement with our community.

Epsom and St Helier Hospital (ESTH) provides maternity and neonatal care for approximately 3,200 women and birthing people and their babies each year, providing all aspects of obstetric and midwifery care in our labour ward, midwife-led birth centre and home birthing service.

The role of the MNVP Maternity Lead is key to ensuring women and birthing peoples' voices are heard and acted upon, bringing service users and their families' voices to the centre of service development and improvement. Supported by South West London and Surrey Heartlands Local Maternity & Neonatal System (LMNS), they work alongside the MNVP Maternity Leads for St Helier and maternity and neonatal management teams to ensure service user voices shape maternity and neonatal care, using co-production methods and values. They will champion seldom listened-to voices and address inequalities across all work undertaken.

• Recent lived experience of using maternity services at Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust
• Lived experience of using maternity services at Epsom and St Helier within the last ten years

• Basic understanding of Microsoft Office.
• Understanding of, and competence in using social media.
• Experience in using Microsoft Teams.

• Having a good understanding of national and local maternity issues.
• Having experience with patient/family advocacy
• Being up to date with current NHS plans.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust