Practice Development Midwife

Job summary

The key role of the Practice Development Midwife is working autonomously to support midwifery and nursing staff to provide a high quality clinical service to patients through ensuring they are equipped and supported with the skills to perform their role, in line with the best available evidence for practice.

The role includes the planning and organisation of an ongoing education programme for the multi-disciplinary team including Maternity, Early Pregnancy Services and Medical Students to promote continuous learning.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

Take the lead in the development of an environment which challenges and questions practice and promotes and develops the quality of thinking amongst practitioners.

Develop and deliver formal and informal education provision, actively participating in the provision of education for staff (individual or groups) and to evaluate education programmes based on evidence based practice.

To work with the Heads of Service identifying knowledge/skills gaps of staff and developing appropriate training to support staff developing their clinical knowledge, skills and competence in order to meet both Personal Development Plan objectives and the identified needs of the Maternity and Early Pregnancy services.

To be responsible for the planning, organising and co-ordinating of ongoing teaching programmes to ensure the clinical skills of the multi-disciplinary team are maintained in line with evidence based practice, in particular the annual mandatory PROMPT programme.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.