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Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join our PD team until April 2025. Your main role will be to support our band 5 midwives in practice, ensuring a smooth transition from student to midwife and helping with clinical skills and competencies. 

Working closely with our band 5 midwives, you will play a key role in implementing the national preceptorship framework, offering clinical support and guidance and meeting with the band 5s regularly to ensure they feel well supported.

In addition to this, you will also help to deliver our training week and participate in key projects to improve and develop practice in the Rosie. This will involve engaging with relevant stakeholders including the multidisciplinary team and the main Trust education team.

We are a Trust that supports professional development and this position will give you the opportunity to implement new and innovative ways of working to support new midwives.

Main duties of the job

Some of the main duties of this job will include:

Supporting new band 5 midwives and ensuring that they are orientated to the Rosie

Creating an individualised plan for each midwife, recognising their strengths and where they may need further support

Maintaining visibility in the ward areas ( 3 days a week) to ensure that midwives are supported in practice

Working alongside midwives on a shift to support with clinical practice

Supporting with teaching clinical skills and supporting with assessments

Facilitating training sessions including obstetric emergencies or skills teaching and preceptorship day

Working closely with ward managers and matrons to ensure that we are supporting our new midwives

Helping to deliver on key projects such as the national preceptorship framework and core competency framework

Working for our organisation

Come Nurse with us…

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.

You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.