Practice Development Lead Midwife

You will work trust wide, be a highly skilled, motivated midwife who will be responsible for ensuring staff training is of a high standard. The Practice Educator Midwife will engage effectively with clinical leaders to ensure training meets the needs of the Maternity Services workforce as well as National and Local Guidance.

The Practice Educator Midwife will ensure that staff are provided with training which will enable them to provide safe, high-quality care within all maternity settings including inpatient and outpatient services. This will be achieved through formal teaching, simulation training and bespoke training needs for individuals and groups.

You will play a key role in the development and the supporting of maternity staff through education and training. Education and training are a pivotal part of ensuring the workforce are safe practitioners and you will enhance the current measures the Trust and Division has in place to ensure clinically sound staff. Collaborative working is essential for training to meet the needs of the multidisciplinary team and individuals who require additional support, and it would be the responsibility of the practice educator to develop training which meets their needs as well as meets National and Local guidance.

It is an expectation that you will lead on the structure and co-ordination of learning activities across the Division ensuring the provision of high quality, multi-professional learning environments. The practice educator will be responsible for the development and implementation of effective clinical workforce training and development strategies, to ensure the development of a flexible and sustainable maternity workforce.

You will be responsible for working locally within services where inter-professional learning opportunities can be promoted and provide expert knowledge to both trained and untrained staff by acting as a positive role model and setting high standards within area of practice.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Yvonne Mcgrath Job title: Director of Midwifery Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: View phone number on uk.workus.org

No work mobile - works cross site so may not be reachable via telephone