Student Support Midwife

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is looking for an experienced Midwife to support student midwives and facilitate their learning. The ideal candidate must possess advanced clinical skills, including suturing and neonatal resuscitation, and be an experienced Practice Assessor. This role offers a salary range between £46,419 and £55,046 per annum, pro-rata, with varied responsibilities in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Must be able to practice in all areas in accordance with the Midwives rules and code of conduct.
• Confident in maternal and neonatal resuscitation.
• Ability to interpret CTG and perform intermittent monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Support and facilitate student midwives and mentors in practice.
• Actively involved in training and giving ongoing support.
• Facilitate study days and workshops.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Organizational skills

Advanced clinical skills

Ability to deal with challenging behaviour

Competent interpreting CTG

Education

Registered Midwife

Minimum of 2-year experience as RM

Experienced Practice Assessor

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Midwife with excellent communication and organisational skills to work in collaboration with the Clinical Practice Facilitator.

The student support role is designed to influence the quality of the clinical learning environment by providing support, educational input and development activities for Practice Supervisors/Assessors and students on the pre-registration and post-registration Midwifery programmes.

The post holder will:

1. Be an experienced band 6 Midwife with Excellent clinical skills.
2. Be qualified in performing examination of the new born.
3. Demonstrate the ability to work flexibly and enthusiastically whilst remaining professional under pressure.

Main duties of the job

With the support of the Clinical Practice Facilitator, you will have the opportunity to support and facilitate student midwives and mentors in practice and be actively involved in student clinical assessments.

You will be able to further develop your coaching, teaching, and assessment skills for Student Midwives, Practice Supervisor, and Practice Assessors as you will be actively involved in training and giving ongoing support with clear objectives. This will involve working clinically with Students and Midwives as well as facilitating study days, and workshops i.e. Suturing workshops, live drills and PROMPT.

You should possess excellent clinical, communication and organizational skills along with the ability to negotiate learning objectives and give challenging feedback. You must be a Practice Assessor and be able to work in all areas of Maternity including Intrapartum.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification in the attached documents for further details.

Person Specification

Education and Qualification

• Registered Midwife currently registered to practice.
• Minimum of 2-year experience as RM
• Experienced Practice Assessor

Skills and Abilities

• Must be able to practice in all areas in accordance with the Midwives rules and code of conduct.
• Ability to deal with challenging behaviour and circumstances
• Has advanced clinical skills including, suturing, cannulation, maternal and neonatal resuscitation confident dealing with e.g. PPH, shoulder dystocia Eclamptic fits
• Competent interpreting CTG and intermittent monitoring
• Able to work in all areas of Midwifery , including Intrapartum Care settings.

Knowledge and Experience

• Comprehension of current midwifery practice agenda
• Knowledge of safeguarding
• Good understanding of the Middlesex University curriculum and clinical assessment document.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£46,419 to £55,046 a year, pro-rata per annum inclusive of HCAs