Overview
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic midwife to join the team as an Early Career Support Midwife to provide clinical support to newly qualified midwives transitioning from student to autonomous practitioner, offering structured support, mentorship (named preceptor/buddy), protected study days, and clinical guidance to build confidence and competence in antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal care across integrated community and hospital setting.
Responsibilities
* Be responsible for the support and development of newly qualified midwives, with a focus on clinical care provision.
* Assist in reviewing the preceptorship package with guidance from the retention support midwives to ensure outcomes reflect the needs of the midwives, the wider MDT and the evolving service.
* Help in the induction process for staff when joining our organisation, including their training and education needs.
* Support the wider education team with ongoing training and development of the workforce through facilitation of training days, including mandatory study days and local training delivery.
* Act as a resource of clinical expertise and support the professional development of midwives, maternity support workers, health care assistants and other members of the multi-disciplinary team as appropriate.
* Provide ongoing clinical guidance and mentorship as part of the Early Career Support framework.
Additional information
* The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience and be up to date and confident with all clinical skills. If applying for an Internal Secondment, ensure you have spoken to your line manager and have their support prior to your application. Speak to the Recruitment Team if you have any questions.
* As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.
* Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work. In return we will offer:
* Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development.
* On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
* Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes.
Key Facts
* We see on average 4,810 OP appointments a day.
* We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2,077 per week.
* An average of 1,115 patients are seen in A&E across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
* Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
* Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
* We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
* We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
* UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
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