Clinical Practice Educator, Maternity

It is an exciting time to be joining Ashford and St Peters NHS Trust. The CPE team need an additional inspirational, energetic & experienced midwife to join their team.

You would need to be confident in a teaching environment and have experience in mentoring. This role is predominately supporting shop floor learning on the wards through bedside learning. We want you to support our junior workforce with drug rounds and help them to achieving their competencies in a safe learning environment. We want someone who is nurturing that will empower our preceptor midwives, new colleagues & international colleagues to become confident and competent in the workplace.

ASPH are proud to provide a homebirth service, have an amazing alongside birthing centre, we have a level 3 Neonatal Unit and our midwives get a range of experience from supporting uncomplicated pregnancies to developing care plans for our high risk maternal and fetal medicine service. An MDT approach is always used within these services, and we work extremely closely with our NICU team to provide the best outcome for babies that require their specialist care.

We pride ourselves on our working culture and our leadership team strive to improve the wellbeing and satisfaction of our colleagues. ASPH have a wellbeing hub, staff have the opportunity to access the free onsite gym and other resources. So come and join our friendly team and participate in shaping our future workforce., This is a 1 year secondment, which would assist you with developing your own midwifery skills and abilities.

Please note if you do not have PGCert - once in role you will be supported to undertake the relevant course.

Overview of Responsibilities:

Implement learning from incidents & new initiatives on the shop floor

Support the fetal wellbeing lead in delivering local training

Day to day teaching in the clinical environment - such as supportive drug rounds, triage supportive shifts & ward management supported shifts

Participate in safety huddles to ensure all learning opportunities are accessible to learners

Utilising the SIMs lab and support in simulated learning in the clinical environment

Provide floor support for preceptor midwives to help develop their confidence clinical areas.

Welcome new starters to the maternity unit supporting practically their clinical induction & orientation

Support the development of internationally recruited midwives/nurses.

To participate the development of clinical guidelines and policies

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with our strong commitment to staff health and wellbeing. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.