Midwifery Practice Education Facilitator

**Working Full Time**: 37.5 hours per week
Are you passionate about supporting students and enhancing the quality of the practice learning experience? Are you seeking your next challenge?
At the Countess of Chester, we are committed to providing excellence in pre-registration practice education, support and development.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife to join our existing Practice Education and Development team. Your role will be key in making student experiences successful and supporting our staff to deliver great learning opportunities
The role involves liaising with Higher education institutes and coordinating placements for the midwifery students.
You will receive support and development opportunities within practice learning to support your career development.
This is a rewarding and varied role where you will have the opportunity to take part in shaping and developing the future midwifery workforce.
Lead on the structuring, design and delivery of inter-professional learning opportunities in practice for midwifery students and mentors/ practice supervisors, within own organization.
Work in partnership with the HEIs in the planning, delivery and review of development programmes for mentors/ practice supervisors in order to meet the learning needs of different professional groups, and to ensure that the facilitation of inter-professional learning outcomes is included.
Identify opportunities where multi-professional mentorship, practice supervision can be facilitated in practice as a foundation for inter-professional learning to take place.
Produce and maintain a portfolio of education in practice activity within service area(s). For example, in house mentorship programmes, structured inter-professional learning activities, teaching packages.
Lead on the development, implementation and review of education in practice learning environments in line with educational policy.
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
**The Countess of Chester Hospital**: providing 438 general and acute beds
**Ellesmere Port Hospital**: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
**Tarporley War Memorial Hospital**: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.