Job summary

Wexham Park Hospital is pleased to offer a wonderful opportunity to join the friendly and dynamic Maternity Practice Development team as a Practice Development Midwife for Students. This is a full-time, permanent position.

Main duties of the job

If you are an experienced midwife with a passion for education, practice development, supporting students and new learners within a multi-professional environment, we would encourage you to submit an application. The Maternity Service at Frimley Health Foundation Trust currently provide clinical placement for Midwifery Students from 5 different universities, all of which work together with Wexham Park Hospital.

Frimley Health is a great place to work and progress your career in the Midwifery profession. We are the 4th largest trust to deliver maternity services in England, with a Director of Midwifery and a dedicated Head of Midwifery at both sites.

As a member of the Practice Development team you will be encouraged and supported to further develop your professional knowledge, coaching and teaching skills.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• The post will identify training needs of learners and facilitate delivering of the training required through internal and external training
• The post will facilitate and support the development of clinical skills for students undertaking pre-registration courses in line with NMC registration requirements.
• The post will require the post holder to take trust wide lead and facilitate the development of educational programmes through collaborative working with the Maternity Practice Development team, the Corporate Practice development team and the Universitys providers.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Current Midwifery NMC registrant
• Degree in midwifery or relevant subject
• ENB 997/998, mentor preparation or equivalent.
• Computer literate

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