Specialist Midwife

We are looking for experienced, compassionate and forward thinking midwives to join our Jessop Wing team as Pastoral Lead (full time and part time positions available). This is a fixed term contract for a year and will involve supporting a number of Early career midwives joining us in October. The role will involve having overall responsibility to ensure ECM, existing and Internationally educated midwives are supported and can successfully demonstrate clinical competence and evidence based care.

**As a Pastoral Midwife at the Jessop Wing, you will lead on**:
Supporting Early Career Midwives throughout their preceptorship journey

Support International Midwives

Support return to career Midwives

Work with the leadership and PMA team in relation to retention

Provide clinical support within maternity services

Provide individualised support as required

It is an exciting time to join Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust as we strengthen our maternity workforce, and strive to provide safe, compassionate care to those who choose to receive their maternity care with us.

The post holder(s) will have a monthly one to one with the Education Matron, where objectives, ideas for improvement will be discussed.

The post holder (s) will be the Preceptorship Lead for Maternity services, based on the new preceptorship national

The post holder(s) will be allocating all preceptees their preceptors and oversee their preceptorship program progress.

The post holder(s) will facilitate /organise preceptorship study days depending on the needs of ECMs, IMs at regular intervals throughout preceptorship period, following discussion with the Senior Midwifery Team, linking to a training needs analysis.

The post holder (s) will support, plan and facilitate recruitment open days for student midwives, collaborating with the Senior Leadership Team and LMNS.

The post holder(s) will help shape the role of the legacy midwives and co-work with them to support the ECMs, IMs and those returning to practice.

The post holder(s) will promote the awareness of staff retention to the wider maternity team, together with suggested interventions to be considered needed to achieve such a goal.

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

The Directorate of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology is based at the Jessop Wing which is linked to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. The maternity unit has over 6800 births per year and is a Regional Tertiary Maternity Service with a Level 3 Neonatal Unit of 44 cots. A tertiary Gynae-Oncology service and a changing Gynaecology Service, which includes an Assisted Conception Unit, complete the services within the Directorate.

This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period of 1 year due to the post being externally funded. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts taking into consideration the ongoing source of the external funding and the requirement for the post to be maintained.

Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.