Clinical Educator Midwife - Band 6

Job summary

Clinical Educator Midwives

An exciting opportunity has arisen for band 6 midwives to join the Maternity Education Team.

This is a well-established team who facilitate a wide variety of training for our maternity staff. This includes supporting training days such as :

• PROMPT (obstetric emergency skills)
• Our in house electronic fetal monitoring / human factors day
• Enhanced Maternity Care
• Midwives mandatory annual two day training
• Weekly CTG learning MDT meetings

The clinical education team also deliver ad hoc, small group and one-to-one training on many topics as part of mandatory updates and additionally as required.

These posts offer a wealth of training and development opportunities via external courses (examples include NLS train the trainer, Advanced CTG Masterclass, NIPE module etc).

The team is also responsible for arranging and keeping robust records of training, regular review of the Trust Training Needs Analysis and development of new innovative ideas to improve our training offer, access for our staff groups and staff wellbeing.

The posts involve working Trust wide, although working out of a local base with regular (weekly) travel is acceptable.

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder will :

• Support the delivery of the Training Needs Analysis within Maternity Services.
• Work with the Professional Development Midwife, Consultant Midwife, Maternity Matrons and Ward / Department Managers in supporting new staff and preceptorship midwives to the maternity Unit.
• To support the delivery of on-going education, in-service training and continual professional development of maternity staff in line with National standards.
• Promote a positive learning environment supporting woman centred, evidenced based care, autonomous midwifery practice and normality.

About us

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people.

We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20 / 21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details regarding the job role please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife
• Mentorship or equivalent
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

Degree or working towards

Experience

Essential

• Recent clinical midwifery experience
• Sign Off Mentor

Desirable

Experience of delivering education programmes

Skills

Essential

Enhanced Clinical Skills

Desirable

• HDU competencies
• Ability to motivate staff and encourage learning

Specific Requirements

Essential

• Able to prioritise workload and work to a timeframe
• Able to assess clinical competencies
30+ days ago