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There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We provide acute and planned inpatient and outpatient care for our local community with a strong commitment to staff health and wellbeing. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.
Ashford & St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a passionate and forward-thinking midwife for this leadership role. You will be responsible for the development and implementation of a Recruitment and Retention strategy specifically for midwives and midwifery support staff, linking between the Trust and Higher Education providers to Surrey, Kingston and West London Universities.
You will be responsible for the leadership of the Clinical Practice Education Team and the development of the education and development strategy for the midwifery team.
You will receive valuable insight into the strategic aspects of the maternity service and gain experience working with quality and improvement teams.
Within ASPH we have a range of services. We provide a homebirth service, an alongside birthing centre, a level 3 Neonatal Unit and high risk maternal and fetal medicine service. This will give you the opportunity to become skilled in all areas of midwifery. We pride ourselves on our MDT approach to continuously improve the perinatal service.
As a senior leadership team we strive to improve the wellbeing and satisfaction of our colleagues. You will be provided opportunity for development and training within the trust and courses offsite.
Ashford & St Peters NHS Foundation Trust actively supports staff wellbeing, and benefits include free access to an onsite gym and wellbeing centre, access to a team of Professional Midwifery Advocates and additional pastoral support and Team member of the month awards.
The postholder will be responsible for leading on the development and implementation of the Maternity Education Strategy that supports training needs analysis for midwives and registered and non registered support staff.
We would like to thank you for your interest in working for the Trust. PLEASE READ OUR ‘GUIDE FOR APPLICANTS’ TO HELP YOU COMPLETE YOUR APPLICATION OR CONTACT OUR RECRUITMENT TEAM.
Flexible working: We want all staff to have a good life/work balance and we will support you to have a working pattern that meets your needs and helps us to provide our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients.
We are Ofsted registered day nurseries at Ashford and St Peter’s sites, catering for children from 3 months to 5 years, and half-term play-schemes for primary school age children, open from 8am to 6pm.
We have car parking on all our sites and a new multi-storey car park on the St Peter’s site. We have onsite accommodation in shared flats or houses.
The NHS Pension scheme helps you to build your pension for when you retire. You receive tax relief on the contributions you make while you are working and the Trust makes a financial contribution as well. The NHS pension scheme has benefits that will support you and your family when you retire.
Career pathways: we support our staff to develop their careers and will ensure that you can access support, training and development to progress and fulfil your potential at ASPH
There are a number of staff benefit schemes running to support wellbeing such as salary sacrifice, discount schemes and cycle to work schemes.
ASPH Wellbeing support includes a brand new Wellbeing hub that features an on-site gym as part of the recreation area, offering exercise classes or use of the gym for free following induction, as well as a relaxation area. We have multi-faith centres on both hospital sites.
Find out more by visiting the guide and links that can be found to the right of this advert.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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