Clinical Practice Facilitator

Barts Health NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Clinical Placement Facilitator (CPF) to join their maternity education team at the Royal London Hospital. You will work collaboratively to enhance the clinical development of student midwives, ensuring they provide high-quality care. The position demands a strong clinical background, excellent communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple responsibilities effectively. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced midwife looking to progress and impact student learning positively.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with significant post-registration experience.
• Experience mentoring students in practice areas.
• Understanding of audit processes and presentation of findings.

Responsibilities

• Lead education and development of student midwives.
• Collaborate with senior midwifery teams and HEIs.
• Deliver lectures and presentations effectively.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Managerial skills

Organisational skills

Effective communication

Ability to prioritize

Suturing competence

Team collaboration

Education

Registered Midwife with current NMC registration

Educated to degree level

Holds PG cert in Practice education or similar qualification

Job description

We are looking for a committed and organised 8a Clinical Placement Facilitator (CPF) to join our maternity education team at the Royal London Hospital, working alongside an existing CPF colleague. Together, you will help shape and support the clinical development of student midwives, ensuring they are equipped to provide high-quality, compassionate care. This is a challenging and dynamic role that combines educational leadership with operational management responsibilities, including participation in the on-call rota. You will collaborate with midwives, senior midwifery teams, and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to coordinate placements, identify learning needs, and provide tailored support to students. Your role will be instrumental in ensuring students complete their training confident, competent, and prepared for practice.

A strong clinical background is essential, along with expertise in NICE guidance, fetal monitoring, and obstetric emergencies. The successful candidate should demonstrate excellent communication, coordination, and organisational skills, and can manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a midwife ready to take the next step in their career, combining clinical expertise, educational passion, and operational insight. If you're ready for a new challenge in a supportive and progressive environment, we welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

The role of midwifery Clinical Placement Facilitator is to lead the education and development of all student midwives within maternity services and other learning environments. The individual will work collaboratively and strategically with the Practice Development Midwife and the Royal London Education Team, maternity lecturers in linked HEI's, the Trust Education team and the senior midwifery team to ensure clinical teaching is of the highest standard.

The post holder must be an effective communicator able to confidently deliver lectures and presentations. They must have the skills to support midwives in facilitating student learning in practice. The post holder will need to have effective organisational and management skills to facilitate the needs of various student groups in practice.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Experience

• oPost registration experience and a Band 7 Midwife
• oExperience of mentoring students within the practice areas
• oUnderstanding of audit and how to present findings.
• oAbility to demonstrate significant experience in all midwifery practice
• oAbility to offer constructive suggestions for service improvement. Knowledge and understanding of information governance.
• oAbility to work within set timeframes working to priorities and deadlines, whilst monitoring the quality of own and others work.
• oAbility to use and maintain resources efficiently and effectively and encourage others to do so.
• oUnderstanding and application of human factors
• oSound knowledge of current issues in maternity
• oExperience of teaching in a classroom situation
• oTraining in unconscious bias or inclusive leadership

Skills

• oAbility to work as part of a multi- disciplinary team and under deadlines
• oExcellent interpersonal, managerial, and organisational skills.
• oGood written and verbal communication skills. Be motivated and exercise own initiative.
• oAbility to prioritise clinical work effectively Ability to record and report back accurately and
• oProven competency in suturing, cannulation, IV administration, epidurals, water birth, adult, and neonatal resuscitation.
• oAbility to work as part of a multi- disciplinary team.
• oAbility communicates effectively, both written and verbally.
• oAbility to self-reflect and identify learning needs to enhance performance

Qualifications

• oRegistered Midwife with current NMC registration
• oEvidence of continuing education
• oEducated to degree level
• oSSSA or equivalent
• oResearch skills & evidence of utilising evidence-based practice
• oA sound knowledge of current midwifery practice and contemporary professional issues
• oAdvanced clinical skills e.g. ALSO course, NALS course
• oExperience of teaching in higher education
• oHolds / is studying towards PG cert in Practice education or similar qualification

Knowledge

• oClear understanding and application of professional accountability, responsibility, and confidentiality.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.