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.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

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:

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

Widening access (anchor institution) and employability

Improving the experience of staff with disability

Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development

Making equalities mainstream

Job description

Job responsibilities

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Registered Midwife
• Educated to First degree level or working towards.
• Practice Assessor (SSSA Standard)

Desirable

• Masters degree or working towards in related subject
• Teaching Qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Minimum five years post qualification midwifery experience
• Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environment
• Implementation of audit / research recommendations.
• Evidence of involvement in change management
• Ability to identify poorly performing staff and take appropriate action

Desirable

• Evidence of presentations at local, regional, national level.
• Evidence of continued leadership development
• Evidence of participation in research projects.
• Contribution to academic programmes.
• Module in research methods.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Evidence of delivering teaching programmes to staff/student groups.
• Evidence of excellent clinical record.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources

Desirable

• Competent in database and spreadsheets.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word & PowerPoint.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills.
• Able to deal with conflict in a non confrontational manner.
• Demonstrate enthusiasm for the role and for continued professional development

Employer details

Employer name

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Address

UHL

London

SE13 6LH

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