Practice Development Midwife | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

Participate in delivering the Practice Development Strategy within the Maternity Services.

Plan and facilitate induction programmes for new starters to the maternity unit.

Plan and facilitate on the Maternity Training week & all additional training facilitated within the PD team.

Support the continuing development of Preceptorship Midwives, Maternity Support Workers & Junior Staff.

Work collaboratively with other professionals to ensure clinical training needs are identified and supported.

This is a post for advanced midwifery practitioners, with excellent standards of clinical practice. The post is designed to provide the post holder with opportunities to develop and further enhance skills in programme planning, multi professional teaching and facilitation and communication with key stakeholders on issues related to practice development. The post holder is responsible for developing and enhancing clinical skills and competence of midwives and support staff.
The post holder will support all preceptorship midwifes in first year post qualifying as well as the educational needs of all midwifery staff. Work with preceptee midwives to enhance their experience, build confidence, and establish a strong foundation for their future career. Use midwifery expertise as a resource to support preceptee midwives, promoting normality as well as providing guidance for high-risk care. Work clinically alongside staff in a supernumerary capacity to facilitate learning and competency Support clinically to provide seven-day cover or as required in line with service need.
Work with Quality and Safety team and Senior Midwifery Team in the implementation of the practice development agenda for the maternity service, with direct reference to the CQC, SBL standards and Trust objectives.
Facilitate the recruitment and retention of midwives to meet organisational needs consistent with legislation, policies, and procedures.

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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This is a post for advanced midwifery practitioners, with excellent standards of clinical practice. The post is designed to provide the post holder with opportunities to develop and further enhance skills in programme planning, multi professional teaching and facilitation and communication with key stakeholders on issues related to practice development. The post holder is responsible for developing and enhancing clinical skills and competence of midwives and support staff.

The post holder will support all preceptorship midwifes in first year post qualifying as well as the educational needs of all midwifery staff. Work with preceptee midwives to enhance their experience, build confidence, and establish a strong foundation for their future career. Use midwifery expertise as a resource to support preceptee midwives, promoting normality as well as providing guidance for high-risk care. Work clinically alongside staff in a supernumerary capacity to facilitate learning and competency Support clinically to provide seven-day cover or as required in line with service need.

Lead on agreed professional development activities, including mandatory training, essential to role and service activity.
Lead on preceptorship programmes and clinical placement activity in the division and the wider organisation in line with Trust policies and procedures and national guidelines.
Provide professional leadership, guidance, advice, support, and clinical advice as part of the Specialist Midwife Team. Foster a learning culture which values high quality patient care.
Ensure the delivery of a clinically effective service which reflects local and national development plans, Trust policies and procedures. This includes participation in bleep holder and manager on call when required.
Support, implement and observe compliance and competence between theoretical knowledge and clinical skills.
Plan, deliver and review interventions to enable people to learn and develop. Use a variety of facilitation skills to deliver programme content, based on individual learning needs of staff and recognised preferred learning styles.
Leads on the preceptorship and induction programmes for newly registered midwives and those midwives who are new to the Trust or returning to practice AND all new staff appointed to the maternity department. Work clinically (minimum 50%) with identified staff and support workers facilitating the acquisition of clinical skills, knowledge and developing practice to support and enable embedding change in clinical practice and the achievement of learning outcomes to deliver a safe and effective service.

Have practiced in all areas of midwifery and gained sufficient experience to teach and support other midwives in all areas of midwifery