Preceptee Midwife (Band 5)

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Do you want to work in an organisation that values you as an individual, in a team that provides multi-disciplinary support, encourages your development, and values your contribution? If so, come and join our fantastic team.

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to be able to facilitate an average of 5000 births per year.  As a Trust, we are lucky to have standalone birth centres, co-located units, and home birth options.  This is a really is an exciting time to come and work for Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust as we move forward with our future visions.

We are a forward-thinking and innovative Trust, committed to developing and encouraging their personnel to progress within their career. As a thank you for the hard work and dedication of our staff, we offer an excellent benefits package and just a few of those benefits include:

• On-site childcare
• Salary finance schemes
• Health service discounts
• Interest free season ticket loans (travel)
• Onsite gym, swimming pool and fitness classes
• Staff wellbeing services
• Free hire of beach hut

Key Responsibilities:

• Using a woman focused approach to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual programmes of care, ensuring clinical practice is clinically effective and research based.
• Develop multi-disciplinary maternity guidelines through active participation in relevant PODS/forums/focus groups and the dissemination of knowledge.
• Demonstrate a commitment to evidence-based practice, highlight areas for change, then initiate and evaluate evidence to improve and develop woman centred care.
• Promote health education within the clinical area and be able to advise the women, families, and others in health promotion.
• Develop and strengthen interpersonal relationships with all members of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring good team working, collaborative working practices and professionalism through liaison with associated services including child Protection, Social Services, teenage pregnancy groups etc.
• Comply with NMC standards for records are maintained to reflect the care, treatment, advice, and tests provided.

Midwifery Preceptorship Programme: 

Upon successful application, you will be welcomed by a dedicated preceptorship team who will provide you with the skills and knowledge to become confident and competent practitioners. Our bespoke preceptorship program offers robust training to facilitate the application of learning in a clinical setting and support the transition from student to newly qualified midwife. 

There is a large variety of specialist midwifery roles in Portsmouth's Maternity Service, with a close link to our level 3 NICU. This offers our staff the opportunity to be exposed to complex care management and to consolidate and strengthen staff's skill and knowledge base to support with career progression. 

Following completion of your preceptorship programme you will be provided with a continuation of post preceptorship support on our ‘beyond-preceptorship’ programme. The focus during this period will be on continued pastoral support, aspirations and career progression and development.

Interview information

Please note the interview process will consist in two parts. Part 1 will be clinical scenarios and if successful, part 2 will be a panel interview. We are aiming to have both of these parts close together.

Qualifications

• Current RM registration with the NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications (at point of employment).

Skills and Knowledge

• Articulate and knowledgeable in current health care issues
• Skill in organising resources and establishing priorities
• The ability to work using own initiative and without supervision.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to develop and maintain record keeping systems and procedures.
• Ability to make clinical decisional judgments
• Ability to demonstrate confidentiality and trustworthiness.
• Ability to calmly identify priorities and react accordingly
• Ability to act and ensure delivery of maternity services

Experience

• To work towards and commit to midwifery preceptorship programme

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.