Midwife Clinical Educator

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHSFT

The closing date is 10 April 2025

Job summary

As the Clinical Midwifery Educator, you will support the quality of the clinical learning environment for midwifery staff and learners within the Women and Children's division by providing clinical support, educational input and development activities for registered midwives, apprentices, and students.

You will encourage the development of a learning culture where both education and lifelong learning are seen as integral to clinical practice and will positively contribute to the development of the workforce and support and enable staff to provide safe and effective maternity care.

Main duties of the job

To support staff and learners with their individual and Trust learning needs.

To assist departmental managers in ensuring that all Trust Mandatory Training requirements are met.

To support the achievement of CNST safety action 8 requirements. To work with departmental managers to prepare placement areas to support a quality learning environment, this will include facilitating teaching and support sessions.

To support facilitation of Maternity Mandatory training day.

Work with senior staff, practice development midwives, supervisors and assessors to ensure all new staff and learners receive a robust induction and orientation to the work area.

To work closely with the Risk and Governance Lead and the matrons to assist in completion of education and actions relating to serious incident and moderate incident investigations.

Ensure Trust policies are adhered to by all staff and report any non-compliance as necessary.

To contribute to the development of policies and guidelines where applicable.

Support the appraisal process and any associated training and/or performance management processes of supervisors, assessors and practice educators in collaboration with the individual's line manager.

Act as a professional role model and provide leadership to junior members of staff and learners.

About us

There's never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We're working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we've ever undertaken.

Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.

We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as 'Good', and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome.

We love working here and think you will too.

Date posted

27 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

426-712-25TAM

Job locations

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Gayton Road

Kings Lynn

PE30 4ET

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information about this role, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information about this role, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification

Person Specification

Qualifications/training and professional development

Essential

Registered Nurse, Midwife registered with the NMC
Undertaken Assessor training such as Mentorship or Practice Education

Desirable

Degree in relevant field
Post-graduate Certificate in Education or equivalent

Experience

Essential

Post-registration clinical experience
Experience of working with non-medical learners including students and apprentices in an acute setting

Desirable

Experience of teaching within a formal setting
Knowledge of coaching models of mentorship

Skills, abilities and knowledge

Essential

Ability to work autonomously setting own targets and measuring performance against these targets
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Negotiation and persuasion skills
Accurate documentation with attention to detail
Knowledge of pre-registration Health Sciences programmes and professional bodies (NMC and HCPC) standards relating to education

Desirable

Ability to use a variety of presentations skills to engage with individuals with a multitude of learning styles

Person Specification

Qualifications/training and professional development

Essential

Registered Nurse, Midwife registered with the NMC
Undertaken Assessor training such as Mentorship or Practice Education

Desirable

Degree in relevant field
Post-graduate Certificate in Education or equivalent

Experience

Essential

Post-registration clinical experience
Experience of working with non-medical learners including students and apprentices in an acute setting

Desirable

Experience of teaching within a formal setting
Knowledge of coaching models of mentorship

Skills, abilities and knowledge

Essential

Ability to work autonomously setting own targets and measuring performance against these targets
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Negotiation and persuasion skills
Accurate documentation with attention to detail
Knowledge of pre-registration Health Sciences programmes and professional bodies (NMC and HCPC) standards relating to education

Desirable

Ability to use a variety of presentations skills to engage with individuals with a multitude of learning styles

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).