Job summary
Quality Improvement Midwife - deputy practice development midwife
15 hours per week
Fixed term for 12 months
Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Closing Date: 17th September 2025
Interview Date: TBC
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and creative midwife to join our maternity team as Deputy Practice Development Midwife on a 12-month secondment to work alongside the Lead Practice Development Midwife. You will support the design, delivery, and evaluation of engaging, evidence-based training across our maternity service. This includes creating innovative learning materials, delivering simulation and skills sessions, and ensuring all training meets CNST,CQC, Ockenden, and trust requirements.
If you are passionate about training and education, enjoy working collaboratively across multi-disciplinary teams, and want to play a key role in shaping the skills and confidence of our maternity workforce, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Your role will also involve contributing to wider practice development work from maintaining accurate training records and producing reports, to reviewing national and local guidance, supporting clinical governance activities, and liaising with the trust's Learning & Development team to share best practice. You will be a visible presence in clinical areas, working closely with staff to identify learning needs, deliver training sessions, embed new knowledge into everyday care, and promote a culture of safety and continual improvement.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
- The post holder will support the department in maintaining and improving high standards of care and achieving safety throughout the maternity footprint by working with the clinical and governance teams.
- To support the maternity service in fostering an environment that is woman centred and upholds the highest standards of safety.To work closely with clinical teams to facilitate and foster the clinical governance, risk agenda and continual quality improvement initiatives.
- To understand new health care developments ensuring that midwifery practice is evidence based, cost effective and regularly benchmarked against best practice.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- The post holder will support the department in maintaining and improving high standards of care and achieving safety throughout the maternity footprint by working with the clinical and governance teams.
- To support the maternity service in fostering an environment that is woman centred and upholds the highest standards of safety.To work closely with clinical teams to facilitate and foster the clinical governance, risk agenda and continual quality improvement initiatives.
- To understand new health care developments ensuring that midwifery practice is evidence based, cost effective and regularly benchmarked against best practice.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Recent relevant clinical experience
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Diploma/Degree
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development
- Successful completion of preceptorship
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Knowledge of developments in Midwifery
- Ability to work on own initiative and within a team
- Knowledge of national initiatives and drivers in maternity care
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Enthusiastic and motivated
- Assertive and competent
- Positive attitude to change
- Demonstrates commitment to develop self and others
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Recent relevant clinical experience
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Diploma/Degree
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development
- Successful completion of preceptorship
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Knowledge of developments in Midwifery
- Ability to work on own initiative and within a team
- Knowledge of national initiatives and drivers in maternity care
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Enthusiastic and motivated
- Assertive and competent
- Positive attitude to change
- Demonstrates commitment to develop self and others
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).
