Band 8a Education and Workforce Lead for Maternity | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

This role has multiple priorities with the safety of mothers and babies and good patient experience as it’s main goal, achieved by ensuring a highly trained, competent and well-staffed workforce. It will focus on staff wellbeing and development, good and effective teamworking, an open and honest approach to maternity specific training and development with a strong focus on evidence-based care and learning from incidents.

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES


• Create practice-based learning opportunities to reinforce classroom theory
• Ensure students achieve NMC requirements and escalate concerns appropriately
• Support students in practice and ensure adequate supervision
• Ensure appropriate assessor-to-student ratios in clinical areas
• Provide pastoral care and prioritise student wellbeing
• Oversee support and assessment for Return to Practice (RtP) and overseas midwives
• Liaise with clinical teams to provide wider experience placements
• Support staff involved in clinical incidents in collaboration with PMA team
• Ensure in-situ simulation training reflects clinical incidents and thematic reviews
• Provide clinical support as required, including participation in on-call rotas
• Maintain visible and supportive presence in clinical and training environments

Please see JD and PS attached for further and more detailed information.

This job is based in North Middlesex UniversityHospital.

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

This advert closes on Tuesday 2 Jun 2026