Practice Development Midwife (Band 7) - Midwife - Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust; Guildford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Practice Development Midwife to enhance maternity training and support student midwives. This role involves teaching critical skills, collaborating with various stakeholders, and delivering evidence-based training programs that focus on improving the quality of care.

Benefits

Comprehensive health and wellbeing program

Commitment to professional development

Outstanding rating from CQC

Qualifications

• Significant experience in midwifery practice.
• Evidence of post-registration education.
• Proven ability to communicate within the MDT.

Responsibilities

• Support student midwives through their training programme.
• Manage in situ skills drills and multi-professional training.
• Provide evidence-based advice and support to maternity staff.

Skills

Teaching skills

Communication

Clinical audit participation

Education

NMC Registered Midwife

Degree in Nursing or Midwifery

Teaching and assessing qualifications

Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics

Neonatal Life Support

Job description

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The maternity department at the Royal Surrey is highly successful; it is rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, has achieved Gold Accreditation under the Unicef Baby Friendly Initiative and has achieved all 10 safety actions as a part of NHS Resolution’s CNST scheme. The maternity department prides itself on the high quality care it provides to women and families; this is achieved by focusing on innovation, quality improvement and staff health and wellbeing.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Practicing / NMC Registered midwife with significant experience and evidence of post-registration education bringing knowledge and skills to degree level
• Evidence of education to degree level
• Teaching and assessing/mentor preparation qualification
• Evidence of other professional managerial qualifications
• Qualifications demonstrating training in advanced skills, for example: Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics qualification or Neonatal Life Support

Knowledge and Experience

• Substantial post qualification experience across all areas of midwifery practice with evidence of teaching real time skills in the clinical work place
• Evidence of teaching and assessing experience/ proven ability to communicate within the MDT
• Evidence of presentation skills to an audience
• Demonstrate participation in clinical audit and research
• Understanding of managing a budget

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Clare Cardu Job title Head of Midwifery Email address [e-mail] Additional information

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.