Legacy Midwife

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic, self-driven and dynamic experienced midwife to join our team to support the workforce across the maternity service, clinically teaching learners pre and post registration. This post offers complete flexibility with working hours to suit the candidate. This is an exciting pilot which would see Midwives spending a legacy period, supervising, supporting and handing over their career insights to students and midwives, following significant experiences in midwifery. The role will be supporting students and midwives in our organisation, using a model based on the Collaborative Learning in Practice (CLiP). The role of the Legacy Midwife also ensures collaboration with Education Leads and Universities across Essex to increase placement capacity across health and social care. The role provides an opportunity to transfer skills and expertise to others and inspire the next generation of midwives. Successful pilot of this role will support the ambition that this post can become a dedicated role within organisations so that experienced Midwives have the opportunity to feel a sense of achievement with imparting their skills & knowledge to others. The role will require a degree of flexibility and creativity and the post-holder will be required to occasionally work from home using technology.

Main duties of the job

1. Inspiring and promoting the nursing and midwifery profession across The Princess Alexandra Hospital
2. Will undertake clinical education with their students/substantive staff and learners face to face/virtually and deliver presentations as appropriate.
3. Be able to present complex and sensitive information to a variety of students/substantive staff with differing needs.

Please refer to the Job description attached for further information.

About us

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishops Stortford, and St Margarets Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishops Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

The Princess Alexandra NHS Trust

Harlow

CM20 1QX

Employer's website

https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

The Princess Alexandra NHS Trust

Harlow

CM20 1QX

Employer's website

https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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