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Practice Development Midwife

Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Location
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 pro rata, per annum
Profession
Midwife
Grade
Band 7
Deadline
31 Dec 2024
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
17 Dec 2024

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Practice Development Midwife who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients and staff receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards "great people, great place".

If you are an enthusiastic, dynamic highly motivated, experienced Midwife who has a passion for teaching and enabling others to meet their full potential this role is for you.

Main duties of the job

The education programme is well established and there is excellent record of multi professional learning, including PROMPT training for obstetric emergencies. You will work closely with our recruitment and retention Midwives, Fetal Surveillance leads and other members of the education team. Together with the obstetric lead consultant for education, you will plan and deliver the Maternity Training Programme throughout the year for the whole MDT.

You will be an innovative expert practitioner with a passion for providing patient centred care alongside embracing change to improve safety and the patient experience. You will be able to demonstrate leadership qualities to a high standard and have evidence of change management skills. You will also be aware of local and national drivers for maternity services coupled with a good understanding of the recommendations of the National Maternity transformation programme.

If you join the team, you will be supported to develop personally and professionally to ensure you are equipped with the skills required to deliver high quality training for both newly qualified and experienced staff across all areas of maternity.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.