Job summary
Are you looking for an exciting new career opportunity?The role will give you the opportunity to be a skilled member of the midwifery education team, providing a high standard of education and support to Overseas Midwives.
Main duties of the job
The role is multifaceted and will require the ability to communicate effectively at all levels within the multidisciplinary team, including providing first-level pastoral care to Overseas Midwives.
One of the main duties of the job is to participate in the planning and facilitation of study days and OSCE preparation for Overseas Midwives, including delivering training and providing feedback as required. You'll need to be flexible in approach, maintaining policies and standards of nursing care, whilst supporting staff development as part of the Education Team.
The role will require participating in relavent training required to prepare for the role.
About us
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium sized District General Hospital based in Edmonton in Enfield, North London. We serve a diverse multicultural population largely from the London boroughs of Enfield and Haringey. Many of our patients live in wards that are within the 5% most deprived in the UK and a large proportion of our patients were born abroad. This makes it both a fascinating and a challenging hospital to work in.
Over the last decade we have rebuilt almost all of the hospital and now have facilities that we are proud to work in. We employ over 3,500 staff, more than half of whom live locally. We encourage apprenticeships from the local community and work closely with our local Health Watch.
We are primarily an emergency led hospital with more than 90% of our bed days being used for patients admitted via our emergency and ambulatory units. As well as offering everything you would expect from a major acute hospital we have a number of tertiary services treating patients with HIV and Sickle Cell Disease and a large cancer and radiotherapy service. We also run our local community Sexual Health Clinics.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
- Being an expert clinical practitioner, prioritising and planning workload to include working in clinical practice. Act as a resource for the multi-professional team.
- Ensuring that overseas midwives are aware of the quality and patient safety aspects of the care that they are delivering. Including ensuring they are acting safety and fulfilling their responsibilities they are trained and competent to deliver.
- To be a visible and accessible point of contact for staff, coordinating newly registered midwives development across the department.
- In conjunction with the Practice educators, Ward/unit sisters /MW in charge, acting as a resource and facilitator for the induction of new staff and their on- going.
- Supporting the development and advancement of evidence-based practice to improve patient outcomes.
- Promoting reflective practice and a culture of lifelong learning, participating in action learning sets, clinical supervision, eLearning and other learning methodologies.
- Supporting with the concept of supervision and supporting learners and overseas midwives in practice.
- Participating in practice development initiatives in the divisions to ensure practice meets external health care standards as required and creates a culture of best care best value.
- Actively take part in agreed audit /service evaluation projects. In conjunction with the Multi-professional education lead, ensuring that audit recommendations are implemented and reviewed.
- Being involved in the internal and external quality frameworks ensuring that evidence is available and making sure that practice meets these quality agendas.
Professional
- Acting in accordance with the Code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates, and fulfill all registration requirements.
- To be familiar with and adhere to the Trust Code and Behaviour and Uniform and IPC policy.
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs, beliefs, choices and preferences of patients and careers.
- Obtaining informed consent for the identified care to be undertaken, ensuring the patient/client has a good understanding and knowledge of the decision-making process and is provided with accurate and appropriate information.
- Maintaining clear and accurate patient records using both digital and paper-based records.
- Recognising and effectively respond to emergency situations requesting support in a timely and appropriate manner.
- Working in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and local policy and practices, including safeguarding and raising concerns.
- Using a wide range of communication methods, including verbal, non-verbal and written, to interact with a variety of individuals including patients, careers, and members of the multi-professional team in a manner which is safe, effective, compassionate and respectful.
- Recognising and consistently working within boundaries of the registered midwife role and their acquired skills and knowledge whilst developing competencies to progress their education and training for example skills in leadership and medicines management.
- Working in an agile manner, able to work unsocial hours.
Clinical
- Providing high standard of safe individualised, holistic and evidence-based patient focused advanced care in consultation with the patient, relatives and the multidisciplinary team as per the plan of care.
- Demonstrating a commitment to research based practice and clinical excellence and play an active part in the introduction of research-based change to improve patient centered.
- Maintaing your knowledge of current protocols and guidelines and practice in accordance with these.
- Acting in a way that encourages and support equality and diversity that reflects the Trust values.
- Accurately document and report to other members of the maternity team and multidisciplinary team information regarding the care given to patients, communicating changes as they occur.
Managerial
- Be aware of the individual needs of other team members, giving support and guidance as necessary.
- Participating in the planning and organising of OSCE preparation.
- Participating in orientation and induction of new staff and students on placement.
- Supporting the assessment process of the overseas midwives.
- Acting as a reflective practitioner, questioning clinical practice.
- Providing support and guidance to other staff as appropriate and supporting clinical and non- clinical staff, students.
- Participating in staff engagement meetings/activities and contribute to positively to discussion regarding patients safety and care.
- Participating in data collection to support audit and contribute to quality improvement initiatives.
- Monitoring and reporting serious untoward incidents/near misses so that appropriate remedial action can be taken.
Education and Training
- To be conversant with the current curriculum for overseas midwives training and contributing to the development practice in overseas midwives.
- Ensuring principles of risk assessment and risk management are implemented into care and maintaining professional development to maintain competencies.
- Undertaking any other duties as identified by line manager
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
- Being an expert clinical practitioner, prioritising and planning workload to include working in clinical practice. Act as a resource for the multi-professional team.
- Ensuring that overseas midwives are aware of the quality and patient safety aspects of the care that they are delivering. Including ensuring they are acting safety and fulfilling their responsibilities they are trained and competent to deliver.
- To be a visible and accessible point of contact for staff, coordinating newly registered midwives development across the department.
- In conjunction with the Practice educators, Ward/unit sisters /MW in charge, acting as a resource and facilitator for the induction of new staff and their on- going.
- Supporting the development and advancement of evidence-based practice to improve patient outcomes.
- Promoting reflective practice and a culture of lifelong learning, participating in action learning sets, clinical supervision, eLearning and other learning methodologies.
- Supporting with the concept of supervision and supporting learners and overseas midwives in practice.
- Participating in practice development initiatives in the divisions to ensure practice meets external health care standards as required and creates a culture of best care best value.
- Actively take part in agreed audit /service evaluation projects. In conjunction with the Multi-professional education lead, ensuring that audit recommendations are implemented and reviewed.
- Being involved in the internal and external quality frameworks ensuring that evidence is available and making sure that practice meets these quality agendas.
Professional
- Acting in accordance with the Code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates, and fulfill all registration requirements.
- To be familiar with and adhere to the Trust Code and Behaviour and Uniform and IPC policy.
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs, beliefs, choices and preferences of patients and careers.
- Obtaining informed consent for the identified care to be undertaken, ensuring the patient/client has a good understanding and knowledge of the decision-making process and is provided with accurate and appropriate information.
- Maintaining clear and accurate patient records using both digital and paper-based records.
- Recognising and effectively respond to emergency situations requesting support in a timely and appropriate manner.
- Working in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and local policy and practices, including safeguarding and raising concerns.
- Using a wide range of communication methods, including verbal, non-verbal and written, to interact with a variety of individuals including patients, careers, and members of the multi-professional team in a manner which is safe, effective, compassionate and respectful.
- Recognising and consistently working within boundaries of the registered midwife role and their acquired skills and knowledge whilst developing competencies to progress their education and training for example skills in leadership and medicines management.
- Working in an agile manner, able to work unsocial hours.
Clinical
- Providing high standard of safe individualised, holistic and evidence-based patient focused advanced care in consultation with the patient, relatives and the multidisciplinary team as per the plan of care.
- Demonstrating a commitment to research based practice and clinical excellence and play an active part in the introduction of research-based change to improve patient centered.
- Maintaing your knowledge of current protocols and guidelines and practice in accordance with these.
- Acting in a way that encourages and support equality and diversity that reflects the Trust values.
- Accurately document and report to other members of the maternity team and multidisciplinary team information regarding the care given to patients, communicating changes as they occur.
Managerial
- Be aware of the individual needs of other team members, giving support and guidance as necessary.
- Participating in the planning and organising of OSCE preparation.
- Participating in orientation and induction of new staff and students on placement.
- Supporting the assessment process of the overseas midwives.
- Acting as a reflective practitioner, questioning clinical practice.
- Providing support and guidance to other staff as appropriate and supporting clinical and non- clinical staff, students.
- Participating in staff engagement meetings/activities and contribute to positively to discussion regarding patients safety and care.
- Participating in data collection to support audit and contribute to quality improvement initiatives.
- Monitoring and reporting serious untoward incidents/near misses so that appropriate remedial action can be taken.
Education and Training
- To be conversant with the current curriculum for overseas midwives training and contributing to the development practice in overseas midwives.
- Ensuring principles of risk assessment and risk management are implemented into care and maintaining professional development to maintain competencies.
- Undertaking any other duties as identified by line manager
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Evidence of continued professional development
- A good level of teaching experience
- Practice Assessor or equivalent status
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
- Comprehensive knowledge of the Capital Midwife overseas midwifery programme and how it applies to the OSCE
Desirable
- Awareness of teaching methodologies including clinical supervision, action learning, facilitation, face to face, etc
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
Experience
Essential
- Experience of supporting student/ preceptorship midwives in placement
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
Desirable
- Able to analyse newways of working anddelivery methods
Personal qualities
Essential
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Demonstrate ability to work with and advocate for diverse staff groups.
- Good understanding of Information Technology and other Microsoft tools
- Friendly and approachable
- Project a professional image
- Team player
Values
Essential
- Demonstrableability to meet Trust values :Caring , Open and Honest
- The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership)
Other requirements
Essential
- Flexible approach to the needs of the service
- Willingness to adapt to a changing environment
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Evidence of continued professional development
- A good level of teaching experience
- Practice Assessor or equivalent status
- Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
- Comprehensive knowledge of the Capital Midwife overseas midwifery programme and how it applies to the OSCE
Desirable
- Awareness of teaching methodologies including clinical supervision, action learning, facilitation, face to face, etc
Skills and abilities
Essential
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
Experience
Essential
- Experience of supporting student/ preceptorship midwives in placement
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
Desirable
- Able to analyse newways of working anddelivery methods
Personal qualities
Essential
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Demonstrate ability to work with and advocate for diverse staff groups.
- Good understanding of Information Technology and other Microsoft tools
- Friendly and approachable
- Project a professional image
- Team player
Values
Essential
- Demonstrableability to meet Trust values :Caring , Open and Honest
- The promotion of equality of opportunity and good working relations (providing practical leadership)
Other requirements
Essential
- Flexible approach to the needs of the service
- Willingness to adapt to a changing environment
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
