Lead Midwife for Professional Practice
| Posting date: | 02 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £61,927.00 to £68,676.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £61927.00 - £68676.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW10 9NH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9289-SC-26 |
Summary
SEE JOB DESCRIPTION ATTACHED FOR FULL INFORMATION. Promote and lead respective activity e.g. clinical supervision, journal clubs etc., to enhance development. Delegate tasks and activities to a range of team members ensuring that the staff has the appropriate support to take on projects. Provide clinical leadership, ensuring that action is taken at all levels to empower midwives and nurses in providing demonstrably high standards of care in a clean and safe environment. Uphold a high clinical profile and take responsibility for maintaining own clinical competence with a relevant knowledge base. Be responsive to changing needs within the practice area in relation to local and national strategic requirements within the Maternity Service. Provide line management to the Maternity Education team, practice development support workers, international educated midwives support team and adminstrators ensuring women, birthing people and their families receive high quality care. Ensure training is up to date and each team member receives a high quality performance and development review each year. In conjunction with the recruitment and retention lead midwife and wider leadership team support the development of the recruitment and retention strategy. Develop and implement a directorate wide maternity education strategy that links to the workforce strategy and the divisional strategic plan. Undertake a thorough Training Needs Analysis within the division in line with Mandatory training and to organise the delivery of training to meet the Trust minimum standards of training. Provide excellent visible clinical leadership and develop support mechanisms for sharing good practice across the maternity service Is accountable for ensuring that all education, training, research and development provision and opportunities are regularly audited and to facilitate the development of action plans as required Will facilitate education audits to maintain a clinical environment that is conducive to learning and staff development. Is required to produce an annual education report for Maternity Services Plan and lead projects relating to local policy