A rare and exciting opportunity is available for an exceptional Midwife and educator to join the Practice Education Team as a Practice Placement Facilitator. This senior role is key in ensuring the trust is the best place to work and train, by supporting practice placement learning, growing our future midwifery workforce and working with our University partners. You will supporting students on all midwifery programmes.

Main duties of the job

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape thecreation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This meansdemonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables andempowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries.

You will also maintain your clinical dexterity and credibility by working as a midwife within all clinical midwifery services.

About us

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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To lead the provision of high quality NMAHP (Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals) practice placements, ensuring Trust student capacity is able to meet both the trust future workforce need and NMAHP regional programmes demand.

To manage the quality of the clinical midwifery learning environments by taking a lead role in placement audit and evaluation provides support, educational input and development activities for educators / supervisors and learners alike. To provide innovative solutions to practice education challenges.

To provide innovative solutions to practice education challenges.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• 1st Level Registered Nurse / Midwife or Allied Health Professional.
• Degree in a relevant subject and ability to work at Masters level through experience
• Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of learners in practice.

Desirable

• Masters degree Post graduate qualification in education Leadership course

Other Requirements

Essential

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes.

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Previous experience in a senior nursing / Midwifery / AHP role in a clinical area as student / learner assessor
• Demonstrate a good understanding of national, political and professional agenda and its application in practice
• Significant demonstrable experience of supporting learners in the practice environment
• Evidence of change management and practice development

Desirable

• Experience of working across teams / organisations and boundaries
• Knowledge of the interface between education providers and healthcare professionals
• Knowledge of the principles of preregistration professional education

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

North Tyneside General Hospital

Rake Lane

North Shields

NE29 8NH

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