Practice Development Midwife

If you are looking to work in an award winning, well-supported, friendly, dynamic, culturally astute and inclusive environment that puts birthing people at the centre of a high standard of care where the latest CQC report that rates us again as good, maintaining our good rating since 2017, a fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic, motivated midwife to join the Maternity Education Team as the Practice Development Midwife (PDM) at University Hospital Lewisham .
You will need to evidence extensive post-qualification experience, including recent practice on Labour Ward and excellent leadership and communication skills.
You will be instrumental in delivering specialist midwifery training to the Maternity Team, encompassing our team of midwives and support workers, with regular inter-disciplinary working with Obstetric and Anaesthetic colleagues.
The PDM is pivotal in maintaining safe maternity services and ensuring continuous professional development for midwives, achieved through the organisation and facilitation of the mandatory training programme, responsive teaching within the clinical environment and the provision of external CPD opportunities.
You will lead by example by incorporating a clinical element to maintain your professional development, confidence and competence., You will develop your leadership and managerial skills with opportunities to become involved with project management.
You will be the lead for the professional development programme for midwives in collaboration with the Queen Elizabeth site PDM, Lead for Education, Head of Midwifery and Senior Midwives.
You will be required to deliver and facilitate a programme of mandatory training for midwives, in collaboration with specialist speakers. You will also liaise with multidisciplinary colleagues to organise joint obstetric emergency study days.
You will support the Senior Midwifery team to co-ordinate an environment of life-long learning for midwives and support midwifery staff in clinical practice by working in tandem alongside them in the clinical areas.
You will develop Training Needs Analysis in response to needs of the service, Trust and wider organisation.
As the Practice Development Midwife you will work closely with the Clinical Practice Facilitator (CPF) / Preceptee Support Midwives (PCSM) in training and skills for midwives and preceptee midwives.

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 lead in the professional development programme for midwives in collaboration with the Lewisham site PDM, Head of Midwifery and Senior Midwives.
To deliver and facilitate a programme of mandatory training for midwives, in collaboration with specialist speakers. Liaise with multidisciplinary colleagues to organise joint obstetric emergency study days.
To support the Senior Midwifery team co-ordinate an environment of life-long learning for midwives and support staff and to support midwifery staff in clinical practice by working in tandem alongside them in the clinical areas.
Develop Training Needs Analysis in response to needs of the service, Trust and wider organisation.
The Practice Development Midwife will work closely with the Clinical Practice Facilitator (CPF) in training and skills for midwives and preceptee midwives.
Key Performance:
+ Create a learning environment conducive to all staff acquiring the required knowledge and skills to meet the needs of clients and their families.
+ In conjunction with the Head of Midwifery and senior management team, identify training needs through annual training needs analysis and develop the training/development strategy for the unit working to ensure evidence based practice underpins all midwifery care and is responsive to local and national criteria.
+ Contribute to the development and provision of in-house post-registration courses.
+ Review and influence the development and implementation of policies based on local and national agendas.
+ Co-ordinate and assist with the audit of midwifery practice to demonstrate compliance with National standards.
+ Support the CPF in fulfilling the requirement of the NMC for all midwives to be 'Practice Assessors' and thus ensuring exceptional mentoring for students.
+ Lead the teaching programmes for midwives and support the ethos of 'lifelong learning' for midwives.
+ Possess advanced clinical knowledge and skills, able to recognise complications and deal with clinical problems in a safe and appropriate manner and can provide emergency care to mother/birthing person and/or baby whilst awaiting medical assistance, including management of maternal haemorrhage, intravenous cannulation, infant and adult resuscitation.
+ Work with staff in a variety of settings to ensure midwifery practice is evidence based including IV cannulation, episiotomies and perineal suturing.
+ Support midwives undergoing development or supervised practice where relevant.
+ Support education and clinical research within the Unit.
+ Promote staff awareness of the national agenda, influencing midwifery services and ensuring that the service reflects current policy.
+ Initiate/participate with projects and working groups in the maternity department.
+ Although based in one hospital within the Trust, he/she should be able to work in either hospital, providing consistent practice development cover.
Workforce
+ Line manages allocated staff, including monitoring and management of staff development and poor performance.
+ Ensure all midwives are up to date with required mandatory, statutory and professional training.
+ Instrumental in development of competency assessment and maintenance of these records where appropriate.
+ Ensure the Compliance Team are enabled to maintain an accurate training database for all midwives, by timely provision of the attendance registers.
Communication & Working Relationships
· Act as a resource for Lead Midwives
+ Liaise with Midwives to ensure education and training needs identify and reflect those identified through the supervision process.
· Work closely with the Obstetric, Anaesthetic, Neonatal and Medical teams to ensure multidisciplinary education and updating
+ Work closely with the Obstetric Risk Manager and Lead Midwives in provision and audit of education for Clinical Governance.
+ Cross cover in the absence of the Clinical Placement Facilitator.
+ Provide specific advice to the HOM and CPF on issues relating to practice development and support the Lead Midwives.
+ Liaise with local Higher Education Institute (HEI), Link Lecturers and Lead Midwife for Education (LME).
General
+ Develop and maintain personal clinical competence in all midwifery practice areas.
+ Practices with due attention to the Midwives Rules and Standards (NMC 2012) and The Code - Standards of Conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives (NMC 2008).
+ Provide a positive role model for midwives and student midwives in relation to midwifery clinical practice.
+ Demonstrate clinical practice, providing a strong visible presence within the maternity unit and ensure regular contact with patients, relatives and staff.
+ To maintain own clinical skills relevant to the development of midwifery practice using research based evidence.
+ Take action against inappropriate behaviour with regards to equality and diversity.
+ Work as a team member, ensuring good communication and collaborative working relationships are maintained throughout the division and at Trust level.
+ As part of the senior midwifery team, be able to advise and support women/birthing people with psychological, emotional and sensitive issues, often in difficult and complex circumstances.
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.