Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (50% of the role is clinical shifts in the maternity unit, 50% of the role is CLiP project leading)
- Job ref
- 151-CG-229-A
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £37,162 - £44,629 Per annum (pro rata) inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
CLiP Midwife
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
The Practice Development team is pleased to announce a brand-new opportunity to join the student leads in supporting our student midwives at Wexham Park Hospital.
The role will be split with clinical shifts: 50% of the role will be clinical shifts in the maternity unit, 50% of the role will be leading on the CLiP project with the Practice Development Team.
The primary purpose of this role is to lead the support, implementation and evaluation of the Collaborative Learning in Practice (CLiP) model of working within maternity. This is a supervision model where students work in small groups under the guidance of a practice supervisor.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated individuals like yourself, to join our fantastic and supportive expanding team of Midwives at Wexham Park Hospital.
Frimley Health is a great place to work and progress your career in the Midwifery profession. We are the 4th largest trust to deliver maternity services in England, with a dedicated Head of Midwifery at both sites, a team of Matrons and Practice Development team to not only support you but enable our Midwives, to deliver high quality care and progress the National Maternity Transformation Agenda.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The post will require the post holder to work with and in Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust to prepare and implement the CLiP project in maternity and to support midwives, students and other involved staff members with the project.
- Undertake training about the CLiP model of student supervision, including coaching techniques.
- Work with teams to implement the model through education, coaching, resources and onsite mentoring.
- Prepare midwives, students and other associated staff, who will be working in the CLiP project, including how to use coaching techniques.
- Support students and midwives on the CLiP project on the postnatal ward intially, reporting and escalating when needed to the Lead for Midwifery Students and Lead Midwife for Education.
- Supervise students’ reflective learning, using identified time during the project.
- Attend relevant meetings related to the CLiP project, both locally and regionally as required. Represent the Trust at local and regional events and developing and sustaining links with other CLiP midwives to share best practice.
- Be responsible for the planning, co-ordination and evaluation of the programme.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Practice Assessor/Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of student supervision and assessment
- Recent midwifery experience including postnatal ward
- Experience in facilitation, teaching, assessing and coaching
Desirable criteria
- Experience of project management
- Experience of CLiP in practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zahra Choudhry
- Job title
- Practice Development Midwife - Student Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 615 5717
- Additional information
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