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Midwifery Practice Education Facilitator
The closing date is 28 July 2025
The Midwifery Clinical Placement Facilitator is a pivotal role in the development of Student Midwives into the future Midwifery Practice. This role will be fundamental in the shaping of future maternity services across East Kent Hospitals, and the development and experience of our Students and their introduction to our profession.
As a team we are working hard to ensure we put women and families at the heart of everything we do. We are on an exciting improvement journey and can offer you a rewarding, flexible and supportive role providing a full range of midwifery care.
This is based at Kent and Canterbury Hospital, however a trust wide role.
Main duties of the job
The Midwifery Clinical Placement Facilitator role is pivotal in supporting mentors and student midwives to provide responsive, high quality care to women and their families.
The Midwifery Clinical Placement Facilitator is professionally responsible and accountable to work within the boundaries of both the NMC Code of Conduct, and Trust Policies and Processes.
Continuing Professional Development is fundamental within all roles with the Trust for both clinical and non-clinical practice, where sharing knowledge and training is an expected normality amongst colleagues.
The Midwifery Clinical Placement Facilitator leads on the training of evidence based practice for Student Midwives, including the review of current teaching and learning practice, creation of facilitation and learning materials and the support and mentoring allocations.
About us
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with fivehospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Job responsibilities
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in Documents to download.
If you have further queries please dont hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.
Person Specification
Clinical skills and experience
* oMidwifery care with a minimum of three years at band 6
* oCompetencies and clinical skills related to the knowledge and skills framework for Band 6
* oPrevious experience in teaching and development of junior staff/students
* oOperational Management Line Management of staff Budget Management
Governance
* oUnderstanding of governance within midwifery and framework
* oUnderstanding of Audit Development and implementation of new policies, guidance and strategies
* oThorough understanding of key indicators for quality care
Personal/professional attributes
* oHighly effective communication and relationship skills
* oContinuing Professional Development
* oHighly Professional
Other requirements
* Apart from the questions above- why do you think that this is the right role for you? and how will you integrate this new role into the workforce?
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
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