Job summary
Employer heading
Midwife Practitioner Preceptee
Band 5
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
Are you looking to work in an award winning, well-supported, friendly, dynamic, culturally astute, inclusive environment that puts women/birthing people at the centre of a high standard of care.
Our latest CQC report has been published and we have maintained our good rating since 2017 and have been awarded as outstanding for leadership.
We are currently recruiting newly qualified and recently completed Return to Practice course Midwives dedicated to providing evidence based, client centred care to complement our existing Hospital Based Midwives.
We are looking for enthusiastic team members to help us to promote safe, compassionate care whilst working with women/ birthing people and their families to provide care that puts them at the heart of everything we do.
We offer an excellent, preceptorship programme to support you in your first year in practice, including dedicated teaching sessions, rotation between areas and the possibility of a 3-month period in the community in order to gain experience in all areas with many of our preceptees staying in the community teams they have requested once they finish their preceptorship programme.
If you have vision, are dynamic and motivated with a commitment to providing and developing a first-class service then the Queen Elizabeth Site of Lewisham and Greenwich Maternity services want you and look forward to welcoming you to help us achieve even more in the future.
Main duties of the job
You will be capable of establishing and maintaining effective communication with individuals and groups about difficult or complex matters overcoming any problems/barriers in communication.
You will develop and maintain your Midwifery knowledge and practice by attending and participating in continuing professional development and contribute to the development of others.
You will contribute to the development of services and quality improvement whilst ensuring your own actions promote quality and alert others to quality issues. You will support people's equality, diversity and rights.
You will be competent in assessing people’s health and wellbeing needs when those needs are complex and change across the caseload.
You will be able to plan, deliver and evaluate care pathways to address clients complex and changing health and wellbeing needs
You will be an advocate to lead others in the development of knowledge, ideas and work practice and assist in planning, allocating, assessing and providing feedback to team members
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main tasks/overview of responsibilities
- Establish and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups about difficult or complex matters overcoming any problems/barriers in communication
- Develop and maintain Midwifery knowledge and practice by attending and participating in continuing professional development and contribute to the development of others
- Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others in own work area
- Contribute to the development of services
- Contribute to quality improvement
- Ensure own actions promote quality and alert others to quality issues. Support people's equality, diversity and rights
- Assess people’s health and wellbeing needs when those needs are complex and change across the caseload
- Plan, deliver and evaluate care pathways to address clients complex and changing health and wellbeing needs
- Lead others in the development of knowledge, ideas and work practice
- Plan, allocate, assess and provide feedback to team members
- Maintain and support the efficient use of physical and /or financial resources
- Participate in on call-rota
Person specification
Qualification & Training
Essential criteria
- RM
- Education to Diploma level or equivalent portfolio evidence
Desirable criteria
- Working towards a degree
Experience, Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Computer literacy
- Able to deliver a high standard of evidence based individual client care
- Effective communicator with good leadership and interpersonal skills
- Evidence of ability to take charge in the absence of their direct line manager
- Demonstrate midwifery skills underpinned by current evidence
- Demonstrate an awareness of the importance of audit and policy
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kathryn Schwencke
- Job title
- Recruitment and Retention Midwife,
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 836 5277
- Additional information
Preceptorship Clinical Support Midwives(QEH)
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