Practice Development Midwife

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust; Guildford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Practice Development Midwife to enhance training and development within the midwifery team. This role focuses on supporting student midwives through their education, ensuring they achieve necessary competencies. You will work collaboratively across departments to deliver high-quality training programs and maintain excellence in patient care. Join a supportive and dynamic team in a Trust known for its outstanding care quality and commitment to colleague development.

Benefits

Comprehensive health and wellbeing program

Commitment to professional development

Investment in physical environment and equipment

Qualifications

• Experienced midwife with teaching competence.
• Ability to manage multi-professional training.
• In situ skills drills management.

Responsibilities

• Support student midwives through their training.
• Deliver maternity training programs collaboratively.
• Manage skills drills and training in the maternity department.

Skills

Teaching

Managing training programs

Clinical supervision

Perineal suturing

Neonatal resuscitation

Education

Registered Midwife qualification

Job description

Clinical Practice Development Midwife

Student Midwife Lead

The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic midwife to join our dynamic midwifery practice development team. The practice development midwife team work in close collaboration with the clinical governance midwife, maternity matrons and the wider obstetric, anaesthetic and neonatal training leads to deliver effective and creative training and practice development programmes to the full maternity team.

While working in all areas of maternity practice development, your work will focus on supporting all student midwives through their training liaising with key stakeholders at the relevant universities. You will take an active role in delivering the maternity training programme as well as supporting your CPD colleagues in the induction, orientation and ongoing training of newly qualified midwives.

You will be a highly skilled and compassionate midwife, competent and confident in teaching including perineal suturing, neonatal resuscitation and the first-line management of obstetric emergencies.

The Practice Development Midwife will provide evidence-based advice, and support to all maternity staff. The focus of this post is to support student midwives through their training programme ensuring they are provided with the training opportunities to achieve the competencies and objectives required. Close stakeholder involvement with the relevant universities will facilitate robust oversight of each student. The practice development midwife will be responsible for teaching, managing in situ skills drills and managing multi-professional training in the department, including PROMPT.

The post holder will work closely with the other members of the practice development team to manage in situ skills drills and managing multi-professional training in the department. The post holder will also support practice assessors and practice supervisors and midwives undertaking post registration courses. The post holder will also work with the practice development team in the development of midwifery practice and enhance the overall quality of patient care. It is expected that the post holder will work clinically, supporting students and staff as a requirement of the role.

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Clare Cardu Job title: Head of Midwifery Email address: [e-mail]

For an informal tour, or if you would like to learn more about the job, please speak to Anna Laban: [e-mail] 01483 571122 ext 2395.