Senior Midwifery Tutor

Whittington NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in London seeks a Senior Tutor to develop and implement clinical teaching for medical students. Responsibilities include identifying learning needs, facilitating training, and overseeing skill development in obstetrics and gynaecology. Ideal candidates should have antenatal and labour ward experience, along with a passion for teaching future healthcare professionals. The role offers a collaborative environment and the opportunity to shape clinical education practices.

Qualifications

• Experience teaching clinical skills in obstetrics and gynaecology.
• Ability to identify learning needs of students.
• Familiarity with antenatal care and labours.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement clinical skills teaching programs.
• Identify learning needs and deliver training.
• Facilitate practical training sessions for students.

Skills

Antenatal experience

Labour ward experience

Teaching experience

Education

Relevant nursing midwifery qualification

Job description

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Job overview

Take responsibility for the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme for clinical and skills teaching of medical students to reflect their curricula, learning outcomes and competency requirement.

Familiarise self with the curricula of medical students, identify their practical skill requirements and oversee their experience in the clinical and practice areas.

To teach students in clinical situations or in the Skills Laboratory environment.

These will include:
• Antenatal skills - routine schedule of care and screening
• Practical labour ward skills - to include abdominal palpation and vaginal examination
• Midwifery and caring skills
• Recognition, management, support of women in labour including the administration of a range of analgesic agents
• Conduct of normal labour
• Recognition of abnormal labour
• Management of common complications and risk management protocols.
• Support students through the patient pathway
• Liaise with named officers in the University department and service to develop equitable learning opportunities, which may be multi-professional as appropriate.
• To develop the clinical learning environment.

Please see the job description and person specification for further details.

Main duties of the job

The role/duties of the post are outlined below. In undertaking this role, the employee will be expected to behave at all times in a way that is consistent with and actively supports the organization's values or lead the search for and development of innovative methods of teaching.

Education and Student Support

1. Identify learning needs of staff. Responsible for addressing identified learning needs in learning outcomes, core conditions and core presentations.
2. Attend and teach at the introductory clinical skills circuit in UCL main campus each module
3. Facilitate manikin based additional training in speculum and bimanual examination skills
4. Support learning through history taking observation and examination
5. Complete structured learning exercises mandatory to placement sign off
6. Attend Single Best Answer (SBA) writing workshops and assist with writing for the 5th and final year exams.
7. Attend OSCE writing workshops and assist with writing scenarios based in the setting of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
8. Support the person centre pathway
9. Deliver lectures centrally at UCL on core topics in introductory lecture weeks
10. Deliver induction to each student cohort group
11. Deliver weekly formal tutorial to students on placement on site at the Whittington
12. Attend examiner training and examine in UCL examinations

Please see the job description and person specification for further details.

Working for our organisation

This position is based at Whittington Health medical campus, working on behalf of University College London Medical School.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

MAIN DUTIES

Education and Student Support

1. Identify learning needs of staff. Responsible for addressing identified learning needs in learning outcomes, core conditions and core presentations.
2. Attend and teach at the introductory clinical skills circuit in UCL main campus each module
3. Facilitate manikin based additional training in speculum and bimanual examination skills
4. Support learning through history taking observation and examination
5. Complete structured learning exercises mandatory to placement sign off
6. Attend Single Best Answer (SBA) writing workshops and assist with writing for the 5th and final year exams.
7. Attend OSCE writing workshops and assist with writing scenarios based in the setting of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
8. Support the person centre pathway
9. Deliver lectures centrally at UCL on core topics in introductory lecture weeks
10. Deliver induction to each student cohort group
11. Deliver weekly formal tutorial to students on placement on site at the Whittington
12. Attend examiner training and examine in UCL examinations

Management

1. Help to design the rotas for each academic year to ensure sufficient focus on normality and deviation from this
2. Observe others teaching (nurses, doctors, midwives) and provide structure feedback on their teaching sessions for their development.
3. Help to support students struggling on placement to achieve their competencies
4. Attend UCL teaching committees, student experience meetings, module meetings, exam committee meetings and quality meetings

Practice

1. Assist students with practical prescribing skills
2. Teach clinical skills on manikins like vaginal examination, speculum examination, abdominal palpation
3. Assist students with history taking and presenting
4. Assist students in emergency management of obstetric and gynaecology scenarios
5. Develop clinical reasoning skills through case based discussions

Research

1. Promote evidence/research-based quality improvement work amongst the students and pair them with clinical supervisors.
2. Disseminate and utilize audit and research results as appropriate in departmental and organisation wide audit and QI presentations days.
3. Support students to share their research more widely in conferences
4. Act as a change agent and support other staff in the implementation of new practices.
5. Develop educational research projects within the placement to enhance learning especially multi-disciplinary working

Professional

1. Identify personal objectives, reflect on progress and set a personal development plan annually.
2. Exercise accountability and responsibility for continuing professional accreditation and registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
3. Following individual performance management, liaise with the consultant lead in agreeing how identified training and development needs are to be met.
4. Ensure that own practice is kept updated, using an acceptable model of clinical supervision.
5. Take every opportunity to expand practice in line with current guidelines.
6. Ensure that students are aware of, and practice in accordance with, all current guidelines and policies.
7. Contribute to meeting the trusts strategic objectives.
8. Develop management and leadership skills abilities under the direction of the consultant lead
9. Demonstrate an awareness of global issues relating to clinical and professional education.
10. Undertake any other duties that may reasonably be required.

Please see the job description and person specification for further details.

Person specification

Antenatal experience

Essential criteria

• Antenatal experience

Desirable criteria

• Leadership experience in an antenatal context

Labour ward experience

Essential criteria

• Labour ward experience

Desirable criteria

• Experience on labour ward teaching others

Teaching and developing others

Essential criteria

• Experience teaching and developing others

Desirable criteria

• Experience leading a staff group in educational development

SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust's Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form -

1. Provide only business email address for your referees - we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes -

1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
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4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information -

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job Description - Senior Tutor (PDF, 416.4KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 416.4KB)
• Whittington Probationary Policy (PDF, 298.0KB)
• Whittington Employment Promise (PDF, 22.4KB)