Midwifery Clinical Skills Mentor

Position: Midwifery Clinical Support Midwife
We are looking for an experienced midwife who has extensive experience across multiple departments within the maternity setting to join the clinical education team.

As a Midwifery Clinical Support Midwife, you would be supporting all grades of students and staff within the clinical environment to develop their clinical skills. The successful post holder would be supernumerary to the clinical workforce and be required to provide support to staff across all departments depending upon daily needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate empathy and patience, being passionate about the profession and able to provide pastoral support to others.
• Help facilitate a positive working environment for people in all stages of their career and provide support where possible through coaching and mentoring within the clinical environment.
• Coach newly qualified clinical professionals and/or students on placement to enhance their knowledge and skills.
• Provide clinical expertise on a range of projects, supporting best practice and enhancing the learning environment for all.
• Liaise and work with other practice area support staff to ensure consistency across the setting and blended learning approaches to support the transfer of learning/skill attainment.
• Raise the profile of practice development and share good practice with others, enhancing the profile of the organisation and providing support to managers.
• Work as an integral member of the section to develop appropriate strategies and support for relevant staff in early career and support retention.

About University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust:
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching, and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfill their true potential.
UHNM creates and encourages a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return, we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by our staff, patients, and carers, that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, we know that investing in, supporting, and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.