Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Supporting Patient Excellence:

Ensure systems are in place to protect the service users, staff and students in clinical areas.

Work with colleagues, students and service users, to identify the changing needs of the local population. To promote practices that are dynamic, efficient, innovative and continuously improved in its relevance and responsiveness to the needs of the local population.

People/Management Excellence:

Provide advice and guidance for Service / Team / Unit Managers to enable them to provide suitable learning environments and appropriately prepared mentors.  Offer advice and support to clinicians undertaking the mentorship / assessor / supervisor role.  Work to increase the number of mentors that have the appropriate qualifications for mentoring students as defined by Professional bodies

Actively participate in Midwifery education meetings and development activities.  Network with people in similar posts to widen support and sharing best practice

Actively participate in the Trust Nursing & Midwifery Professional Practice Development Council supporting the implementation of inter-professional and quality issues related to student experience

Promote positive communications that enhance the quality of clinical learning and promote a seamless interface with Higher Education Institutions and Pre Registration Lead

Provides advice in relation to the care of an individual, or groups of students or mentors.  This will be achieved by providing advice on a regular basis

Effectively manage one’s own time to ensure a balance between clinical and administrative duties

Support the promotion and maintenance of  a departmental culture which promotes an open and honest approach to professional decision making and problem solving

Demonstrate and promote excellent interpersonal skills, written, verbal and nonverbal communication styles interacting effectively with a range of people on a variety of matters in a form that is appropriate to them and the situation

Influence and nurture positive attitudes and behaviours within the teams  and wider multidisciplinary team

Be able to work as an integrated member of the multidisciplinary team.

Professional Responsibilities:

Being professionally credible and competent and participate in annual appraisal

Observe personal duty of care in relation to equipment and resources used in the course of work

Work without direct supervision within Trust policies, procedures, professional and national guidelines

Undertake relevant clinical practices in accordance with the Scope of Professional Practice

Act as an expert resource for all staff in the Trust in relation to clinical placement issues in Maternity

Promote collaborative working partnerships and effective communication between all members of the multi-disciplinary team

Deliver , Support, promote and maintain organisational and professional standards, this will be in the placement areas and in the office.

Support, promote and maintain mandatory training for Midwifery students. 

Act as mentor/ coach when necessary.  Support the student, mentor and coach emotionally and with practice skills

Contribute to multi-professional and inter-professional training and education.  This maybe across the region or Trust, classroom based or in a placement setting.

Develop one’s own knowledge, skills and expertise, and maintain professional profile

Maintain an awareness of issues relating to midwifery on the national agenda.

Quality Assurance and Monitoring:

Assist with the monitoring, maintenance and development of the quality in all aspects of midwifery clinical placement provision liaising with the Pre-Registration Team  regarding interpreting health service policy to establish goals and standards 

Complete the educational audits with the HEI.

To be able to use the electronic portfolio, Pebblepad to support mentors and students.

There is occasionally a responsibility for direct patient care, when supporting current methods of placement planning but will also provide specialised advice in relation to quality assurance and good practice in clinical placements

Support the Pre-Registration Team with the facilitation of quality and monitoring visits and assessments from professional bodies, Health Education England, Health Education England (East Midlands), Transformation & Local Workforce Action Board, Health Education Institutions and contract monitoring visits

Utilise information from incidents and complaints to inform practice/educational programmes.

Support compliance with internal and external healthcare standards

Provide advice to promote clinical audit and quality improvement

Policy and Service Development Responsibilities

Contribute to the strategic planning of midwifery clinical placement provision to meet the requirements of pre-registration curricula

Contribute to the analysis and interpretation and implementation of guidance relating to clinical placements / practice education, disseminating, and cascading useful information wherever possible. 

Support teams in their development of knowledge, ideas and work practice in relation to student midwife’s placements and practice education

Support best practice is consistent and evidence based by the development and implementation of procedural documents.

General Responsibilities:

Contribute to the mentor register/database held within the Trust which meets the requirements of the NMC and is able to identify those areas of the organisation that are currently used for clinical placements.