Job overview

We are looking for a committed and organised 8a Clinical Placement Facilitator (CPF) to join our maternity education team at Whipps Cross Hospital, working alongside an existing CPF colleague. Together, you will help shape and support the clinical development of student midwives, ensuring they are equipped to provide high-quality, compassionate care.
This is a challenging and dynamic role that combines educational leadership with operational management responsibilities, including participation in the on-call rota. You will collaborate with midwives, senior midwifery teams, and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to coordinate placements, identify learning needs, and provide tailored support to students. Your role will be instrumental in ensuring students complete their training confident, competent, and prepared for practice.

A strong clinical background is essential, along with expertise in NICE guidance, fetal monitoring, and obstetric emergencies. The successful candidate should demonstrate excellent communication, coordination, and organisational skills, and can manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a midwife ready to take the next step in their career, combining clinical expertise, educational passion, and operational insight. If you're ready for a new challenge in a supportive and progressive environment, we welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

The role of midwifery Clinical Placement Facilitator is to lead the education and development of all student midwives within maternity services and other learning environments. The individual will work collaboratively and strategically with the Practice Development Midwife
and the Whipps education team, maternity lecturers in linked HEI’s, the Trust Education team and the senior midwifery team to ensure clinical teaching is of the highest standard.

The post holder must be an effective communicator able to confidently deliver lectures and presentations. They must have the skills to support midwives in facilitating student learning in practice. The post holder will need to have effective organisational and management skills to facilitate the needs of various student groups in practice.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.  

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.  

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.  

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.