Lead Midwife - Education, Recruitment and Retention

Job description

Job responsibilities

Recruitment and Retention

• To plan and manage full recruitment campaigns through the end-to-end process in response to Trust/divisional needs
• Work closely with all staff and senior managers on effective recruitment strategies to reduce both midwifery and maternity support and care assistant vacancy rates.
• To co-ordinate the recruitment process, including advertising, shortlisting, interviewing and appointment processes that keep vacancies to the shortest time possible in conjunction with the Matrons, area leads and CPE team
• To plan and provide opportunities for informal visits for potential recruits.
• Ensure new staff are supported, Inducted and have regular meetings to understand their experience and feed this back into the Unit.
• Engage with the current and recently departed workforce as well as staff survey data (National Staff Survey, Exit, Peakon) to understand key local retention issues and the proposed response to identified issues
• Develop and implement an action plan based on staff survey results to support wellbeing and job satisfaction for new recruits and existing employees.
• Visible presence in the unit with walkrounds to see new staff in practice and understand their experience.
• Ensure provision of psychological safety and support sessions for staff.
• Work with central team to lead on international recruitment drive within Maternity

Will work in partnership with link Universities and HEE to ensure NMC standards for education and development and scope of practice are met

Managerial Role

To line manage the clinical practice education team, learning environment lead and Digital Lead Midwife to ensure team members are supported to lead on their respective workstreams.

• To lead and participate, with the senior midwifery team in the recruitment and selection of staff as appropriate.
• To participate in the Senior Midwifery manager on call rota.
• To act up for clinical team leaders where necessary.
• Lead and Participate in the maternity induction programme midwives and support staff ensuring staff have a lead contact during the onboarding and induction process.
• To liaise with receiving wards/units/departments to ensure the arrival process is seamless and as positive as possible
• Update and report on compliance with maternity training and competency assessments.
• Ensure lessons from serious incidents, audits, complaints and PALS enquiries are incorporated into maternity induction.
• Ensure training is responsive to local and national agenda.
• Ensure seamless support for students ensuring a high conversion rate from student to application for a role.
• Representing Trust in relevant workforce forums with local and external stakeholders.

Education

Lead and develop the maternity education strategy to facilitate the personal and professional development of new staff. This involves identifying training and development needs of both registered and non registered staff, providing suitable development opportunities and evaluating development actions in accordance with the Trusts appraisal and training procedures.

To lead on the program of in-service training education and development of staff.

To be responsible for the advanced clinical support and development of midwives working in the hospital and community settings, working alongside midwives and teams who may be suffering signs of burn out or with high vacancy rates.

Provide/organise mentorship, and coaching to individuals to support development.

To work flexibly across the maternity services to advance clinical midwifery standards and integrate evidence based practice.

Work closely with the Senior Midwifery team and the Senior Nurse for Education to facilitate commissioning of appropriate and relevant education courses from internal and external providers.

Based on widely published research, and in collaboration with the midwifery education team, and senior midwifery team develop a retention strategy with the express aim of reducing Band 5 and 6 midwife and MSW turnover.

To attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary clinical, mortality and morbidity meetings and to establish ongoing training needs.

Contributes to the Trusts Workforce transformation and recruitment and retention meetings and supports relevant reporting requirements in collaboration with the Head of Midwifery

Provide pastoral care for new starters, particularly International and Return to Practice Midwives, and existing staff within the scope of the role.

Participate in development and promotion of a culture which is supportive and works within the A-EQUIP model parameters.

Ensure that the provision of education and training meets the needs of the maternity service and facilitates the provision of the right level of competent practitioners, delivering safe, evidence-based care within the Trust.

Ensure that the required compliance regarding training standards within the key areas set out in the Core Competency Framework, Maternity Incentive Scheme and the Maternity and Neonatal three-year plan are met.

To lead the development of maternity training and education within the division, exploring new ways of working to support modernisation and achievement of key targets.

Represent ASPH Maternity Education on divisional, trust, regional and national education forums.

Ensure systems are in place to ensure all substantive and temporary staff are inducted into the Trust/department in accordance with the Trusts and departments induction programme.

Support the Head of Midwifery on workforce changes/service re-design in line with local and national agenda; contribute to operational policy change and consultation processes and working with the teams to implement and embed change and service re-design

Professional Role

To act as role model and leader for the professional and clinical development of midwifery staff and to promote excellence within and outside the maternity service.

To ensure that the highest possible standard of care is maintained at all times in accordance with the NMC Midwives Rules & Standards.

To maintain effective working relationships within the maternity services and to have a role in team building within the teams.

Lead on Trust values and Just Culture through all new staff recruitment and inductions

Person Specification

Education

Essential

• Registered midwife
• Mentorship or equivalent
• Masters degree or working towards

Desirable

• Leadership or management qualification
• PMA qualification
• Coaching qualification

Experience

Essential

• oWell rounded clinical experience and understanding current status of Midwifery education and recruitment issues
• oEducation experience
• oRecruitment and retention experience

Desirable

• oExperience in report writing and analysing data
• oExperience of multi-disciplinary working

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Peter's Hospital

Guildford Rd, Lyne,

Chertsey

KT16 0PZ

Employer's website

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