Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Practice Educator
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 289-Bank-056
- Employer
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £29.51 - £37.03 per hour
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 19/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Midwifery Clinical Educator -Band 7
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Bank- Midwifery Clinical Practice Educator -Band 7 (NWL ICB people programmes)
The NWL Health and Social Care Skills Academy is looking for an experienced Midwifery Clinical Practice Educator to join our team.
You’ll lead and deliver the pastoral and education curriculum for maternity services across North West London, supporting internationally educated midwives and growing local midwifery talent.
What you’ll do
- Deliver the Midwifery OSCE programme across North West London
- Provide teaching, clinical support, and pastoral care for international midwives
- Support recruitment, induction, and retention of midwifery staff
- Develop innovative education and training initiatives with partners and colleges
This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of maternity services in North West London.
Apply now to join a team that is proud to put patients first.
Main duties of the job
Reporting to the NWL Health and Social Skills Academy Lead, the Midwifery Clinical Practice Educator will be required to deliver the pastoral and education curriculum for Maternity services across the sector as part of the wider expand and diversify agenda for NWL ICB.
This role is instrumental in supporting new recruitment methods across North West London to boost the volume of people from our local areas entering non registered midwifery roles and our Internationally Educated Midwives (IEMS) entering employment in partner NHS Trusts
The post holder will use their clinical expertise to support the strategic approach to onboarding, welcoming and supporting the retention of international midwives by providing teaching, clinical support and pastoral care throughout their pre-registration and preceptorship period and contribute to service developments in maternity education, workforce planning across the NWL footprint
Working for our organisation
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of England's top-performing and safest trusts. We operate two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital—along with award-winning clinics across North West London.
Our nearly 7,500 staff care for a diverse population of 1.5 million, providing full clinical services, including maternity, A&E, and children’s services, plus specialist HIV and sexual health clinics. The Care Quality Commission rates us 'Good' in safety, effectiveness, care, and responsiveness, and 'Outstanding' in leadership and resource use.
We continually invest in our facilities, including a £30m expansion of critical care at Chelsea and Westminster and an £80m Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Middlesex.
We welcome applications for flexible working arrangements, accommodating requests where possible to support our staff and patient needs.
The Trust is committed to equality and welcomes applications from all, regardless of background. Adjustments can be made for disabled candidates. Early application is advised as vacancies may close once sufficient applications are received. If you haven’t heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, your application was likely unsuccessful. Employment is subject to a six-month probationary period.
Some roles may require weekend shifts at multiple sites.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Roles and responsibilities
Acting as a key liaison between all employers, training providers and local authority partners in the NWL Academy to ensure joint working arrangements relating to the Midwifery agenda.
Delivering the pastoral and educational curriculum for Internationally Educated Midwives (IEMs) appointed to North West London.
Responsible for the delivery of a Midwifery OSCE programme on behalf of the Academy and lead on the delivery of the training.
Playing a key role in supporting the orientation of IEMs during the initial arrivals and lead on a sector level induction in collaboration with Trust partners
Partnership working with colleagues across the ICB to develop new innovative ways to support to midwives and partners through OSCE and relevant clinical education training.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Evidence of continued personal development
- Teaching qualification e.g PG Cert (or demonstrable experience)
- Masters qualification or relevant masters’ level experience in relevant specialist area.
Desirable criteria
- Professional Midwifery Advocate
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working in or closely with Education Teams
- Evidence of people management experience.
- Experience of managing Experience of implementing innovative solutions in education, recruitment and retention
- Evidence of self-development with ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of current issues within the nursing and midwifery workforce
- Experience of teaching, research and clinical audit
- Experience of facilitating and implementing teaching programmes to meet training Needs
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the Trust’s and their own performance expectations
- Make effective recommendations and decisions based on complex, ambiguous or partial information
- Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills – can explain complex requirements in a clear and concise manner
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Ashlyn Mathews
- Job title
- Head of Recruitment
- Email address
- [email protected]
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