# Lead Midwifery Clinical Educator > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-midwifery-clinical-educator/08519afd-772d-49f3-8441-f791610cda53 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-midwifery-clinical-educator/08519afd-772d-49f3-8441-f791610cda53.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Preston - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 Per Annum, Pro Rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-29T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-15T14:12:55.635Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Preston/Lancashire_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Education/Education-v8001883 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8001883?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you passionate about education? Do you want to make a difference to patient care and staff development? Hi there, my name is Kirstie and I am the Lead for Clinical Educator Services , here at  Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. I am recruiting a Lead Midwifery  Clinical Educator posts to join our team of passionate educators who are committed to making a difference every day. We are seeking one highly motivated registered Midwife to support education and workforce development across the service. ### Main duties of the job Our Lead Midwifery Clinical Educator will work collaboratively across maternity services to support a positive learning culture, promote evidence-based practice, and contribute to the delivery of safe, high-quality maternity care. You will lead on monitoring and reporting training compliance across all maternity clinical staff groups and will coordinate the planning, implementation, and delivery of internal education programmes, including skills drills, simulation training, and competency-based learning identified through training needs analysis, governance themes, and service priorities. In this role, you will lead and support maternity education and workforce development across the service, working closely with the Matron for Maternity Safety and Quality and the wider multidisciplinary team. You will coordinate and deliver maternity education programmes including emergency skills training, simulation, skills drills, competency support, and clinical development aligned to national standards and CNST requirements. The role will provide leadership and support to midwives, students, internationally educated midwives, newly recruited staff, and maternity support workers, helping to create a positive learning culture across maternity services. You will also contribute to workforce development, preceptorship, quality improvement, governance, and compliance monitoring, supporting safe, evidence-based maternity care and continuous professional development across the workforce. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - Lead and support delivery of maternity education and training programmes aligned to CNST Maternity Incentive Scheme requirements, national standards, and local service priorities. - Coordinate and deliver clinical skills training, emergency skills drills, simulation, competency development, and practical learning opportunities for maternity staff and students. - Provide professional leadership, clinical expertise, and support to midwives, internationally educated midwives, newly recruited staff, students, and maternity support workers. - Work collaboratively with the Matron for Maternity Safety and Quality, matrons, governance teams, obstetric and neonatal services, Higher Education Institutions, and the wider multidisciplinary team to support safe and effective maternity care. - Lead on the development, implementation, and evaluation of maternity education programmes, competency frameworks, and learning resources. - Support workforce development, preceptorship, succession planning, induction, orientation, and career development across maternity services. - Lead and support quality assurance processes relating to maternity education, competency compliance, professional development, and training governance. - Participate in audit, governance, and quality improvement activity to support learning from incidents, complaints, and national maternity safety priorities. - Monitor and report maternity training compliance data and support action planning where required. - Promote reflective practice, restorative clinical supervision, and continuous professional development within maternity services. - Maintain professional registration, mandatory training, and ongoing professional development in line with Nursing and Midwifery Council requirements. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge & Experience **Essential** - Significant post registration experience at senior band 6/7 with excellent clinical skills - Proficiency/competency in a wide range of clinical and enhanced skills relevant to area of experience - Formulation, delivery and evaluation of teaching/training programmes - Experience of competency assessment - Experience of design, planning, implementation of evaluation of training programmes - Experience of implementing changes to benefit patients and improve nursing practice. - Evidence of management skills and ability to lead a team - Knowledge of Clinical Governance and safeguarding and the relevance to practice - Evidence of actions taken to optimise learning outcome and experience in the clinical environment - Current cascade trainer / key mover **Desirable** - Experience in national audit processes/ peer review - Recent evidence of teaching on nationally accredited courses - Experience in participating in or leading service improvement projects, audits, or research activities. - Contribution to development of policies and competencies ### Qualifications & Education **Essential** - Professional Clinical Qualification with current NMC/HCPC registration - Current professional body registration - Leadership/Management qualification/modules - Possesses specialist clinical competencies relevant to their area of professional field with the ability to support others in developing and maintaining these skills. - Practice Assessor qualification **Desirable** - Masters degree in a relevant subject ## Documents - [what we can offer you (pdf, 6.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2464) - [lead clinical educator jd (pdf, 920.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10287039) - [lead clinical educator ps (pdf, 168.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10287040) - [creating your best application (pdf, 6.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2433) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.