Professional Development Midwife

Job description

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

We are seeking an exceptionally motivated and forward-thinking midwife to join the Education Team at QCCH. This Practice Development Midwife position presents an excellent opportunity for an experienced and dedicated professional with a strong commitment to staff development, the enhancement of clinical practice, and the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based maternity care.

This role is central to fostering a positive learning culture across our maternity service. It involves leading and implementing education training and development strategies for the maternity service and will provide you with the opportunity to use your specialist skills to support clinical staff both working clinically and by more formal training.

It also involves being involved in new educational initiatives, professional & clinical development and managing projects.

If you have a passion for teaching and enabling others to meet their full potential this role is perfect for you. Support will be provided to you to develop personally and professionally to ensure that you are equipped with the necessary skills to meet the needs of this role.

Main duties of the job

• To work with the midwifery education lead to co-ordinate and facilitate the educational activities of individual pre and post registration students and return to practice (RTP) midwives, by working in partnership with the Approved Education Institutions (AEI's) to promote evidenced based learning in the development of midwifery practice, encompassing local and national service drivers.
• To provide and assure a safe and effective clinical placement for midwifery students, by ensuring that practice supervisors (PS's) and assessors (PA's) are appropriately allocated and supported to maximise learning opportunities Provide practice based continuing professional development for PS's and PA's including education provision in teaching and assessing in clinical practice
• Work with the midwifery education lead to co-ordinate and support midwives' attendance at SSSA (standards for student supervision and assessment) courses and updates. Collaborate with link lecturers to provide opportunities for midwives to achieve practice assessor status and maintain a local database of PA's
• With the midwifery education lead, work collaboratively to ensure that students achieve the NMC requirements for clinical proficiencies and practice assessments and manipulate student learning experiences where necessary to meet this need, troubleshooting when issues arise

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Environmental sustainability
Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people's health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environme