Clinical Educator Midwife

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Womens CSU at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. We are looking for a passionate, enthusiastic, and experienced midwife with a specialist interest in education and staff development to join the Clinical Education Team on a fixed term contract for 7 months.

You must have a broad range of knowledge and experience within maternity services and be innovative, proactive and compassionate and be able to disseminate innovation and learning in a supportive way.

You need to have a sound understanding of the evidence base and be able to translate this into practice. As a visible and approachable role model you will provide specialist advice to support a broad range of colleagues, working alongside them in clinical areas to develop a skilled, compassionate and resilient workforce. You will mostly be working in the hospital setting with a particular focus on supporting the delivery of clinical skills, emergency and simulation training.

If you would like more information about this role please contact Catherine Buckroyd, Clinical Education Lead who will be happy to discuss this further on 0113 2064981 or email c.buckroyd@nhs.net.

If you are applying for this role on a secondment you must have spoken and got line manager approval before proceeding with an application.

Job Responsibilities

The Jobholder will play an essential role supporting the Lead Clinical Educator (Band 7), Team Leaders, Matrons and Head of Midwifery, by facilitating midwifery education, training and practice development within the Women CSU.

The job holder is responsible for assessing the quality of clinical and other practice learning environments, and proposing interventions within midwifery for improvement.

The job holder will facilitate the development of clinical practice mentors/key trainers, providing supervision through bedside clinical support, and continuous professional development activities.

The job holder will support the development of interdisciplinary and whole service working to ensure the sharing of good practice and delivery of high quality, effective and efficient care.

The job holder will work alongside and support clinical staff to deliver care to the agreed standards.

Support new starters (registered and non-registered) through a formalised and structured induction and preceptorship programme. Provide formal and informal education and training to registered and non-registered staff.

Identify learning and development opportunities for staff and promote continuous quality improvement.

About Us

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

1. Patient-centred
2. Collaborative
3. Fair
4. Accountable
5. Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values.

Essential Core Values Include

• The post-holder is expected to be honest, fair and consistent in their approach and to accept responsibility for ones own achievements, acts and omissions.
• Respect confidentiality in line with National, Trust and local policies and guidelines.
• A positive and professional attitude.
• Committed to providing the highest quality of administrative support.
• To promote, support and work towards the delivery and achievement of the Trusts and departments objectives.
• Maintain and improve quality of service.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

7 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

C9298-WOM-139

Job locations

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

• Capable of lateral thinking.
• Teaching and assessment skills.
• Communication skills.
• Preceptorship skills.
• Organisational & Time Management skills.
• Uses initiative to resolve issues within own control.
• Team player.
• Ability to act professionally at all times.

Desirable

• Audit / benchmarking skills.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife
• Recognised teaching/ assessing qualification.
• Degree level education

Desirable

• Working towards a post graduate Teaching Qualification (PG DIP/PG CERT ED)

Experience

Essential

• Significant relevant post registration experience.