Quality Improvement Midwife - Deputy Practice Development

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Warwick; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Deputy Practice Development Midwife to support education and development of staff within the maternity service. You will lead multi-disciplinary training, contribute to governance and audit, and help ensure MIS reporting requirements are met.

The post may be combined with a clinical Band 6 role; please indicate extra hours you'd be interested in in your application. A patient-centred, evidence-based approach is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience and strong interest in education within the clinical environment.
• Involvement in development and delivery of multi-disciplinary training programmes.
• Ability to assist in MIS reporting and governance within maternity services.

Responsibilities

• Support the education and development of staff within the clinical area.
• Maintain accurate training records and produce relevant reports on training activity and evaluation.
• Facilitate multi-disciplinary training such as PROMPT and Mandatory Maternity Training.
• Contribute to clinical audit and governance activities and review relevant evidence.

Skills

Teaching

Interprofessional collaboration

Clinical practice

Communication

Teamwork

Education delivery

PROMPT training

Mandatory maternity training

Education

Registered Midwife (RM)

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a midwife to join our Quality Improvement Team and support our Lead Practice Development Midwife (PDM). We are looking for an experienced and dynamic individual with a strong interest in education within the clinical environment. You will have excellent interpersonal skills, an exceptional track record in clinical practice, experience of interprofessional working, and the ability to teach, support, and motivate others. A positive and flexible approach is essential, and you must be an effective team player. You will assist in the development and delivery of the multi-disciplinary training programmes ensuring compliance to national reporting requirements including the Maternity Incentive Scheme (MIS).
As Deputy PDM your primary role will be to support the education and development of staff within the clinical area. You will also need to be able to maintain accurate records and produce relevant reports on training activity and evaluation. In the absence of the Lead PDM, you will facilitate and lead multi-disciplinary training such as PROMPT and Mandatory Maternity Training.
The post holder will contribute the multi-disciplinary clinical audit and governance activities. They will also assist with the review of published evidence including relevant national, regional and local reports.
This role may be combined with a clinical Band 6 role – please indicate how many additional clinical hours you would be interested in in your application.
The post holder will support the department in maintaining and improving high standards of care and achieving safety throughout the maternity footprint by working with the clinical and governance teams.

• To support the maternity service in fostering an environment that is woman centred and upholds the highest standards of safety.
• To work closely with clinical teams to facilitate and foster the clinical governance, risk agenda and continual quality improvement initiatives.
• To understand new health care developments ensuring that midwifery practice is evidence based, cost effective and regularly benchmarked against best practice

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
As Part Of Our Commitment To Equality, Diversity And Inclusion We Encourage All Applicants To Complete a Short Survey. This Can Be Accessed Via The Link Below
https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2
We appreciate you completing the survey.For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jane Hollis Job title: Lead Practice Development Midwife Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01926495321