Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 230-34869832-WCS-G
- Employer
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- George Eliot Hospital
- Town
- Nuneaton
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Quality Improvement Midwife – deputy practice development midwife
NHS AfC: Band 6
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.
The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
Our vision is "to EXCEL at patient care". If you think you've got what it takes, help us realise this and join #TeamEliot.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour aren’t as likely to apply unless they meet every qualification of non specialist roles.
We’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role and meet our values, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with everything in the Job Description or Person Specification– apply anyway or email the Recruiting Manager to discuss the role further
We are proud to support the Armed Forces community. We are a Veteran Aware and Reservist Friendly organisation and welcome applications from Veterans, Reservists, Cadet Instructors, and family members of serving personnel.
Job overview
Quality Improvement Midwife – deputy practice development midwife
15 hours per week
Fixed term for 12 months
Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Closing Date: 17th September 2025
Interview Date: TBC
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces Community – get in touch to find out more
#JoinTeamEliot
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and creative midwife to join our maternity team as Deputy Practice Development Midwife on a 12-month secondment to work alongside the Lead Practice Development Midwife. You will support the design, delivery, and evaluation of engaging, evidence-based training across our maternity service. This includes creating innovative learning materials, delivering simulation and skills sessions, and ensuring all training meets CNST,CQC, Ockenden, and trust requirements.
If you are passionate about training and education, enjoy working collaboratively across multi-disciplinary teams, and want to play a key role in shaping the skills and confidence of our maternity workforce, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Your role will also involve contributing to wider practice development work from maintaining accurate training records and producing reports, to reviewing national and local guidance, supporting clinical governance activities, and liaising with the trust’s Learning & Development team to share best practice. You will be a visible presence in clinical areas, working closely with staff to identify learning needs, deliver training sessions, embed new knowledge into everyday care, and promote a culture of safety and continual improvement.
Working for our organisation
Here at George Eliot our vision to ‘excel at patient care’ takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
If you are applying for a Domestic Assistant or Health Care Assistant role you may be eligible for the refer a friend scheme – find out more here: https://www.geh.nhs.uk/about-us/people-and-workforce/vacancies/refer-friend-scheme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The post holder will support the department in maintaining and improving high standards of care and achieving safety throughout the maternity footprint by working with the clinical and governance teams.
- To support the maternity service in fostering an environment that is woman centred and upholds the highest standards of safety.
To work closely with clinical teams to facilitate and foster the clinical governance, risk agenda and continual quality improvement initiatives. - To understand new health care developments ensuring that midwifery practice is evidence based, cost effective and regularly benchmarked against best practice.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Recent relevant clinical experience
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Diploma/Degree
- Evidence of Continued Professional Development
- Successful completion of preceptorship
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of developments in Midwifery
- Ability to work on own initiative and within a team
- Knowledge of national initiatives and drivers in maternity care
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Enthusiastic and motivated
- Assertive and competent
- Positive attitude to change
- Demonstrates commitment to develop self and others
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
- Stephanie Oleary
- Job title
- Practice Development Midwife
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02476 865808
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