Job Overview
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us. Please see below for a detailed job description for the role.
Main duties of the job: Do you have recent, demonstrable experience in training and educating the maternity workforce? Are you passionate about leading education initiatives and supporting others to grow? Are you committed to enabling the Practice Education Team, wider workforce colleagues, and students to develop the skills and knowledge needed to provide safe, high quality care for our families?
Our Maternity Service is firmly aligned with the Trust Values—striving for excellence, continuously improving, and working collaboratively to ensure our workforce meets all national educational standards.
We are pleased to be able to offer an exciting opportunity for an existing substantive band 7 midwife and/or senior midwife, with education experience, to apply for the role of band 7 Lead Practice Educator within our Maternity Practice Education Team. This is a permanent opportunity providing the chance to lead, influence, and shape the future of maternity education within our service.
Working for our organisation: University Hospital Southampton is one of England’s largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations. Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.
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Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
You will lead our dedicated Maternity Practice Education Team, supporting their commitment to delivering high quality, effective training and education programmes. This leadership role offers opportunities for professional development at both internal and strategic levels.
You will provide direction and oversight for all Practice Education programmes, contributing to key decision making alongside the senior leadership team, Consultant Midwives and the Director of Midwifery.
In this role, you will deliver statutory and mandatory training, offer clinical skills support across the midwifery workforce, support our students and newly qualified staff playing an active part in shaping a positive team culture and advancing maternity safety initiatives.
Person Specification
Trust Values
* Patients First
* Always Improving
* Working Together
Qualifications, Knowledge And Experience
Essential Criteria
* Registered Midwife on relevant part of the NMC register
* Significant clinical experience
* Evidence of continual professional development
* Associate/mentorship qualification or equivalent experience
* Relevant and recent clinical experience or with the ability to demonstrate significant experience in midwifery practice and responsibility for managing a clinical team
* Have ability to network, initiate and develop sound relationships with senior colleagues within and external to the Trust
* Expert clinical skills relevant to speciality and achievement of all midwifery competencies
* Synthesise information quickly and able to communicate and escalation
Desirable Criteria
* Experience of writing protocols, guidelines and integrated care pathways
* High dependency course
* Team leadership role
* Evidence of audit
* Experience of leading change management programmes
* Examination of the newborn qualification
* Willingness to teach practice in a formal setting
* Understanding of local and national NHS initiatives
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