Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 7 months (Fixed Term/Secondment)
- Hours
- 22.5 hours per week (Part Time/ Flexible working hours may be considered)
- Job ref
- 180-E-247274
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 19/07/2024
Employer heading
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Practice Development Midwife
Band 6
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join our PD team until April 2025. Your main role will be to support our band 5 midwives in practice, ensuring a smooth transition from student to midwife and helping with clinical skills and competencies.
Working closely with our band 5 midwives, you will play a key role in implementing the national preceptorship framework, offering clinical support and guidance and meeting with the band 5s regularly to ensure they feel well supported.
In addition to this, you will also help to deliver our training week and participate in key projects to improve and develop practice in the Rosie. This will involve engaging with relevant stakeholders including the multidisciplinary team and the main Trust education team.
We are a Trust that supports professional development and this position will give you the opportunity to implement new and innovative ways of working to support new midwives.
Main duties of the job
Some of the main duties of this job will include:
Supporting new band 5 midwives and ensuring that they are orientated to the Rosie
Creating an individualised plan for each midwife, recognising their strengths and where they may need further support
Maintaining visibility in the ward areas ( 3 days a week) to ensure that midwives are supported in practice
Working alongside midwives on a shift to support with clinical practice
Supporting with teaching clinical skills and supporting with assessments
Facilitating training sessions including obstetric emergencies or skills teaching and preceptorship day
Working closely with ward managers and matrons to ensure that we are supporting our new midwives
Helping to deliver on key projects such as the national preceptorship framework and core competency framework
Working for our organisation
Come Nurse with us…
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.
You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can only apply for this post as a secondment and must have the approval of your current line manager before applying.
Closing date is midnight on 9 July 2024
Interviews are due to be held on 19 July 2024
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)
Benefits to you
We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife (Relevant experience is required)
- Professional portfolio demonstrating evidence of relevant on-going professional development
- Able to demonstrate on going learning
- Diploma /Degree in Midwifery
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification
- NIPE Course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate an expert working knowledge of midwifery in all areas of the maternity service in accordance with the NMC Rules and Standards
- Evidence of relevant clinical updating
- Robust understanding of Guidelines and Policies
Desirable criteria
- Involvement with clinical audit and research
- Use of computerised information system
- Participation and contribution to local Regional/National maternity forums
- Teaching experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Aware of current research and its impact on evidence based care
- Conversant with NMC rules governing practice
- Awareness of clinical governance
- Knowledge of current reports/guidelines relating to maternity care and their implication
- Good all round knowledge of patient surveys and satisfaction questionnaires
Skills
Essential criteria
- Well-developed interpersonal and counselling skills
- Excellent communications skills
- Ability to present to wide and varied audience
- Ability in perineal suturing, cannulation, I.V. drug additives and epidural management
- Able to demonstrate contribution to changing practice
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable
- Can demonstrate excellent working relationships and values with multidisciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- Enhanced maternal care skills such as arterial lines etc
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
- Ability to travel between the Trust and the community services, as required
- Desire to teach on PROMPT and our MDT training week
- Motivated to progress in own midwifery practice and continually develop
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Warren
- Job title
- Lead Practice Development Midwife
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 348271
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