Job summary
The Midwifery Clinical Placement Facilitator is a pivotal role in the development of Student Midwives into the future Midwifery Practice. This role will be fundamental in the shaping of future maternity services across East Kent Hospitals, and the development and experience of our Students and their introduction to our profession.
As a team we are working hard to ensure we put women and families at the heart of everything we do. We are on an exciting improvement journey and can offer you a rewarding, flexible and supportive role providing a full range of midwifery care.
This is based at Kent and Canterbury Hospital, however a trust wide role.
Main duties of the job
The Midwifery Clinical Placement Facilitator role is pivotal in supporting mentors and student midwives to provide responsive, high quality care to women and their families.
The Midwifery Clinical Placement Facilitator is professionally responsible and accountable to work within the boundaries of both the NMC Code of Conduct, and Trust Policies and Processes.
Continuing Professional Development is fundamental within all roles with the Trust for both clinical and non-clinical practice, where sharing knowledge and training is an expected normality amongst colleagues.
The Midwifery Clinical Placement Facilitator leads on the training of evidence based practice for Student Midwives, including the review of current teaching and learning practice, creation of facilitation and learning materials and the support and mentoring allocations.
About us
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with fivehospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in Documents to download.
If you have further queries please dont hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in Documents to download.
If you have further queries please dont hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.
Person Specification
Clinical skills and experience
Essential
- oMidwifery care with a minimum of three years at band 6
- oLeadership experience
- oCompetencies and clinical skills related to the knowledge and skills framework for Band 6
- oPrevious experience in teaching and development of junior staff/students
Desirable
- oOperational Management Line Management of staff Budget Management
Governance
Essential
- oUnderstanding of governance within midwifery and framework
- oUnderstanding of Audit Development and implementation of new policies, guidance and strategies
- oThorough understanding of key indicators for quality care
Personal/professional attributes
Essential
- oExcellent IT Skills
- oHighly effective communication and relationship skills
- oContinuing Professional Development
- oHighly Professional
Other requirements
Essential
- Apart from the questions above- why do you think that this is the right role for you? and how will you integrate this new role into the workforce?
Person Specification
Clinical skills and experience
Essential
- oMidwifery care with a minimum of three years at band 6
- oLeadership experience
- oCompetencies and clinical skills related to the knowledge and skills framework for Band 6
- oPrevious experience in teaching and development of junior staff/students
Desirable
- oOperational Management Line Management of staff Budget Management
Governance
Essential
- oUnderstanding of governance within midwifery and framework
- oUnderstanding of Audit Development and implementation of new policies, guidance and strategies
- oThorough understanding of key indicators for quality care
Personal/professional attributes
Essential
- oExcellent IT Skills
- oHighly effective communication and relationship skills
- oContinuing Professional Development
- oHighly Professional
Other requirements
Essential
- Apart from the questions above- why do you think that this is the right role for you? and how will you integrate this new role into the workforce?
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).
