Pre-graduate Midwifery Practice Facilitator

We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity for a registered Midwife to join our ever expanding Pre-Graduate Education Team.

The Pre-Graduate Education Team is committed to supporting and encouraging staff within South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust to develop and support the delivery of high quality care.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and dynamic individual to develop skills in training and education.

You must be committed to ensuring Trust values are delivered competently and to a high standard

To work within and ensure continued development of an environment conducive to learning, integrating evidence-based theory & practice throughout South Warwickshire University NHS Trust.

To work closely with team/department managers and professional leads to establish high quality learning environments, support and provide clinical leadership for all apprentices and Pre-Graduate learners within the Trust as necessary.

To assist in the facilitation, delivery of Induction, training and continued evaluation for all newly qualified staff, Support Workers, Pre-Graduate learners within both acute and community settings.

To provide support to all staff who are supervising and assessing newly qualified staff and Pre-Graduate learners.

To work as part of the Pre-Graduate development team, linking closely with the apprenticeship team and the learning and development department to support a coordinated approach to Pre-Graduate learning and professional development.

To support staff in the development of competence and confidence in the delivery of high standards of care whilst being responsive to the needs of patients, relatives and carers as well as service demands.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Ensure all newly qualified staff and Pre-Graduate learners are supported in becoming competent and capable practitioners by employing appropriate development programmes and/or local competency frameworks.

Demonstrate clinical and practice expertise through personal practice and by leading by example.

Act as an advocate for work-based learning within the Trust, supporting staff and their inter-professional learning practice.

Explore and exploit opportunities for learning, development and change, facilitate staff ownership of change and ensure robust systems of evaluation are in operation.

Provide and participate in supporting all Practice Supervisors & Assessors and Preceptors involved in the training and development of newly qualified staff and Pre-Graduate learners in practice.

To give professional support to the multi-disciplinary teams and to participate in performance development for all Pre-Graduate learners in collaboration with service areas and department managers.

Develop, deliver and evaluate structured training sessions for all newly qualified staff in the delivery of fundamental patient care.

Support the delivery, data collection and evaluation of placement expansion across all of the Maternity services, in particular the teams who have high workforce risks.

Deliver and evaluate inductions and teaching to both new staff and learners.

To be involved in, and actively promote NHS careers and Midwifery career choices/routes.

Responsibilities for Staff Development

Assess and benchmark acceptable standards of practice.

Identify good practice and foster a culture which celebrates and shares good practice.

Work with groups /individuals to identify specific learning/training needs and development action plans.

Assist and support a structured learning and development plan for those newly qualified staff and Pre-Graduate learners who need to be performance managed in collaboration with the department manager / professional lead and Pre-Graduate development leads.

Work with groups and individuals to embed evidence based, quality practice.

Provide information, guidance, advice, support and recommendations to improve service and training quality.

Assist and support Practice Supervisors, Assessors and Preceptors of all Pre-