Clinical Practice Facilitator

We are looking for an enthusiastic experienced midwife who has: a passion for midwifery; a commitment to upholding professional standards and to safeguarding of the profession; is conversant with NMC and Health Education England (HEE) education pathways, plans and strategies; an extensive knowledge of applying evidence-based theory to practice and experience of practicing within a variety of areas, to support the development and educational needs of our student midwives.
The successful candidate will be a highly visible role model for clinical education, an expert practitioner and change agent promoting a learning environment in all areas of the midwifery service and provide practical, clinical training and support, to student midwives and their practice supervisors., You will support and improve the learning in clinical practice for both the return to practice midwives and undergraduate students whilst reducing attrition rates.
You will further develop midwives in their role as teachers and assessors, whilst ensuring students are fit for purpose at the point of qualifying.
You will ensure there is a quality learning environment.
We are very proud of our partnership working with our local HEIs who you will work collaboratively with to develop clinical education within the Midwifery Department and Universities. You will be responsible for maintaining this relationship and are the bridge from practice back to theory through supporting the facilitation of skills sessions at the Higher Education Institutes (HEIs); representing the Trust at meetings; involvement with interviews at the HEIs; encouraging and facilitating midwives involvement with HEI activities and regularly liaising with your link lecturers.

Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream, To co-ordinate and facilitate the educational activities of individual pre and post registration students, by working in partnership with the HEI to promote evidenced based learning in the development of midwifery practice, encompassing local and national service objectives.
Work in partnership with the Trust and HEI leading on student placement mapping. Create practice based opportunities for learning; match practice based learning to coincide with theory taught in the classroom.
To provide and assure a safe and effective clinical placement for midwifery students, child-branch student-nurses on maternity placement and work experience candidates.
Provide clinical and professional advice ensuring optimal use of skills of all staff working within areas.
Provide practice based continuing professional development for practice supervisors and practice assessors, including education and skills in teaching and assessing in clinical practice.
To co-ordinate attendance at practice assessor courses for midwives ensuring ratio of assessors to students is maintained.
To develop and maintain SSSA database.
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We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham., An incredibly exciting opportunity has arisen for a part time band 7 midwife to shape the future of midwifery practice within Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust, based on the UHL site. We are looking to recruit a Clinical Practice Facilitator at University Hospital Lewisham, in a job share, who will join and be supported by the established cross site midwifery education team.