Maternity Education & Practice Development Midwife

Hca Healthcare Uk; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Health cover

Flexible benefits

Career development

Holiday allowance

Private healthcare

Private pension

Season Ticket Loan

Cycle to Work

Group Life Assurance

Critical illness cover

Enhanced parental pay

Staff discounts

Job summary

The Portland Hospital for Women and Children in London is recruiting a Practice Development Midwife to lead professional development across Maternity Services. You will design and deliver education, assess competencies, and support clinical governance objectives to improve patient care.

Working with Clinical Practice Facilitators for Paediatrics and theatres, you will drive training strategies, build learning programmes for midwives and staff, and ensure high-quality antenatal, intrapartum and

Qualifications

• Must be an NMC registered midwife.
• Evidence of post-registration education.
• Up-to-date Obstetric Emergency Training.
• Mentorship qualification with Sign-Off Mentor status.
• Competent in cannulation, venepuncture and perineal suturing.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the development, coordination, and managing, facilitating, conducting, and evaluating competency in the clinical setting.
• In collaboration with the Deputy Chief Nurse for Women's Services, Consultant Midwife, Women's Services Manager and Maternity Matron produce a training needs analysis for the Maternity Services.
• Co-ordinate and manage in-service education programmes for midwives, healthcare assistants and nursery nurses including mandatory training on medical devices and the maternity training days (Skills and Drills, Fetal Monitoring).
• Facilitate midwives to develop their clinical skills and competencies including IV Cannulation, Suturing, IV drug administration, water birth and obstetric skills and drills.
• Organise and lead in situ skills and drills and other simulation training in the clinical setting.
• Ensure the maternity training programmes are updated to include learning from local and national incidents, and that they are benchmarked against national recommended training requirements.

Skills

NMC registered midwife

Post-registration education

Obstetric emergency training

Mentorship (Sign-Off)

Cannulation

Venepuncture

Perineal suturing

Job description

The Portland Hospital for Women and Children in London is recruiting a Practice Development Midwife to lead professional development across Maternity Services. You will design and deliver education, assess competencies, and support clinical governance objectives to improve patient care.

Working with Clinical Practice Facilitators for Paediatrics and theatres, you will drive training strategies, build learning programmes for midwives and staff, and ensure high-quality antenatal, intrapartum and