Practice Development Midwife

Provide positive clinical midwifery leadership, empowering midwives to utilise their skills and evidence available to develop midwifery practice within the Trust.

Develop a system of support within the clinical area for newly qualified midwives, newly appointed midwives, and existing midwives working within the Trust including the development of a robust preceptorship package, and facilitate practice learning to the highest quality through teaching, assessing, administration, and practice-based work whilst supporting the Trust's Clinical Governance Agenda.

You will have an extensive evidence based, clinical knowledge, high level communication and organisational skills, and be able to work closely with other agencies and the multi-disciplinary team.

You will need to be able to demonstrate recent clinical experience, have the requisite level of competencies at band 7 and provide evidence of on-going professional development. Further education is encouraged, including support to attend relevant courses to maintain personal and professional development to meet service needs.

We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced, dynamic and inspirational senior midwife to join our practice development team.

You will have an extensive evidence based, clinical knowledge, high level communication and organisational skills, and be able to work closely with other agencies and the multi-disciplinary team.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.