Practice Development Midwife

Job overview

Working Full time: 37.5 hours per week

We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Practice Development Midwife to lead the education, training and professional development agenda within our maternity service. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated midwife with a passion for learning, quality improvement and patient safety to influence and support the development of a highly skilled maternity workforce.

The successful candidate will work closely with the multidisciplinary team to design, deliver and evaluate education programmes, ensuring staff maintain the skills, knowledge and competencies required to provide safe, effective and evidence-based care. You will play a key role in supporting mandatory training, induction, preceptorship, clinical competency assessment, implementation of national guidance and learning from incidents, complaints and audits.

This role offers the opportunity to drive innovation, support workforce development and contribute to service improvements that positively impact women, babies and families.

If you are an experienced midwife with excellent communication, teaching and leadership skills and are passionate about developing others, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Lead the planning, delivery and evaluation of mandatory and specialist maternity education programmes.

Develop and maintain clinical competencies and skills assessments for maternity staff.

Support staff induction, preceptorship and ongoing professional development.

Monitor and improve compliance with mandatory training and professional requirements.

Facilitate training needs analyses and develop annual education plans aligned to service priorities.

Design and deliver teaching programmes, study days and simulation training.

Support implementation of national maternity safety initiatives, guidelines and best practice.

Lead educational responses to incidents, complaints, audits and quality improvement programmes.

Work collaboratively with ward managers and clinical leaders to improve standards of care.

Support policy, guideline and pathway development across maternity services.

Promote evidence-based practice, research, audit and service improvement activities.

Provide expert advice and professional leadership on workforce development issues.

Evaluate education programmes and produce reports demonstrating outcomes and impact.

Support workforce planning and contribute to maternity service objectives and business planning.

Ensure compliance with NMC standards, CQC requirements and Trust policies

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values. An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’

Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post.

If a DBS is required for your role, you are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee applies which is payable to the DBS Service. Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs will be deducted from their salary over the first three months of employment.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

The Trust will not sponsor where the starting salary does not meet immigration rules

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.