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Job summary

Main area
Maternity
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
432-HR683-24
Employer
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Colchester Hospital
Town
Colchester
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
11/07/2024 23:59

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East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust logo

Practice Development Midwife

NHS AfC: Band 7

We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education and training.

Talk to us about our range of flexible working opportunities, apprenticeships and staff benefits

Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of the ESNEFT’s core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, Procedures and in its Practices, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole.  The EDI Agenda reflects the Trust values such as Optimistic, Appreciative and Kind. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, People Plan, People Promise and a Model Employer intrinsic in the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Agenda, we consistently strive to improve, to take the learning into Action for a better ESNEFT.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

 

Job overview

Are you an experienced Midwife with advanced clinical skills? If so, we'd love to hear from you! 

This is an exciting time to join our team. We are continuing to implement the principles outlined within 'Better Births', so continuity of carer is high on our agenda.

As the Practice Development Midwife you will provide stable guidance and advice to the entire team in the development of skills around the department, whilst ensuring the statutory training is provided to staff throughout the year.

 

Main duties of the job

We look forward to hearing from applicants with a proven track record of service improvement, continuous personal professional development and a commitment to teaching and development of others.

This important role includes:

  • Coordinating professional development of the maternity team
  • Ensuring that all mandatory training is up to date
  • Delivering training, including MDT emergency training (PROMPT)
  • Ensuring that learning from incidents, audits and new guidance is shared and embedded
  • Facilitating staff to provide safe, effective care
  • Contributing towards national and Quality Improvement projects

 

 

Working for our organisation

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes. 

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff. 

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. 

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. 

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients. 

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients. 

Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role, please see attached job description and person specification.

 

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Extensive experience at band 6 or above
  • • Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate maternity care
  • • Experience in teaching, mentoring, assessment and clinical supervision
  • • Experience in group teaching/presentations to peers and other professionals.
  • • Experience of acting as a mentor to both qualified and students, encouraging evidence based practice
  • • Able to identify opportunities to develop needs and to change existing practice
  • • Ability to impart unwelcome news to staff, .e.g. where performance targets have not been met
Desirable criteria
  • • Experience in developing new initiatives

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • NMC Registered Midwife
  • • Degree in midwifery or equivalent experience
  • • Degree in midwifery or equivalent experience
  • • Evidence of further study and development of professional and academic skills
Desirable criteria
  • • Teaching or assessing qualification
  • • PMA
  • • Leadership/management qualification
  • • Masters

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Claire James
Job title
Maternity Matron
Email address
[email protected]
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