Preceptorship Support Midwife

Job summary

We are very excited that we are recruiting midwives to join our team here. What we can offer you here in Essex is the opportunity to work in a busy hospital with support from a variety of specialist posts and senior maternity team. We are friendly and innovative team, privileged to have investment in our maternity workforce to support you. With a large team of senior midwives, specialist midwives and new exciting posts, which is a fantastic opportunity for you. We are absolutely committed to ensuring that women, and our staff, have a positive experience of our maternity service.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen to support newly qualified midwives and return to practice midwives in practice. This will also include our overseas midwives which we are actively engaged in recruiting.

You will provide clinical support to these group of midwives, helping them to develop and grow their skills as clinicians. This will involve working alongside them clinically and supporting assessment/completion of their skills.

You will have the opportunity to develop orientation programmes and bespoke study sessions to provide an innovative welcome, support and network to our new joiners. This will involve pastoral support.

About us

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

PAHT

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM201QX

Employer's website

https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

PAHT

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM201QX

Employer's website

https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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