Job overview

Main duties of the job

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

   Provide individualised and group support for early career midwives.

Work collaboratively with Regional and National Leads for Recruitment and retention, participate in learning activities locally and nationally. Gather information and feedback on how to improve retention and recruitment processes.

·         Seek out new and innovative solutions to support retention of the midwifery workforce

·         Develop preceptorship and support effective preceptorship training programmes to develop the preceptorship package offered to staff. 

·         Provide exit/ learning from leaving interviews. Analyse data from interviews to develop themes to demonstrate areas for improvement.   

·         Support midwives by providing and promoting regular sessions of restorative clinical supervision (RCS) 

·         Collaborate with the local quality & safety, governance, and practice development teams, providing professional advice and supporting quality improvement.

·         Network with PMAs and the wider region. Implement national recommendations for PMA services.

·         Provide professional leadership to midwives by embedding the A-EQUIP model of support. Be an enthusiastic and visionary leader able to influence others through education, multidisciplinary working, and in-house training

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.