Lead Midwife for Training, Education and Development

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Lead Midwife for Training, Education and Development who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Lead Midwife for Training, Education and Development will be a registered midwife/nurse responsible for the operational and professional leadership of the training and educational portfolios within Maternity and Neonatal Services.

Working in partnership with the Head of Midwifery and the Senior Leadership Team, the Lead Midwife will ensure that midwifery, nursing and support staff have the skills to provide a safe, high quality service to women and babies.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for the delivery, monitoring and continued development of a safe, high quality service within all areas of responsibility.

Maintain and enhance standards of care through continuous improvement initiatives and regular service evaluation programmes that involves users of the service.

Support transformation and create a culture that acknowledges professional responsibilities, responding timely and positively to national policy and local demands.

Encourage the Implementation and monitoring of infection control practices and standards, including infection control initiatives, cleanliness and environment audits to safeguard staff and users of the service.

Ensure cost-effective use of resources. Undertake skill mix/establishment reviews and effective workforce planning and development processes within teams responsible for.

Be responsible for departmental budgets relevant to areas responsible for making sure there is an efficient use of resources and identifying and implementing any potential cost improvement initiatives.

Lead on the investigation of complaints and develop strategies or action plans to minimise complaints as required.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG14AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG14AB

Employer's website

https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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