East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

Midwifery Practice Education Facilitator

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Location
Ashford, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/15/2025
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The Midwifery Clinical Placement Facilitator is a pivotal role in the development of Student Midwives into the future Midwifery Practice. This role will be fundamental in the shaping of future maternity services across East Kent Hospitals, and the development and experience of our Students and their introduction to our profession.

As a team we are working hard to ensure we put women and families at the heart of everything we do. We are on an exciting improvement journey and can offer you a rewarding, flexible and supportive role providing a full range of midwifery care.

This is based at Kent and Canterbury Hospital, however a trust wide role.

The Midwifery Clinical Placement Facilitator role is pivotal in supporting mentors and student midwives to provide responsive, high quality care to women and their families.

The Midwifery Clinical Placement Facilitator is professionally responsible and accountable to work within the boundaries of both the NMC Code of Conduct, and Trust Policies and Processes.

Continuing Professional Development is fundamental within all roles with the Trust for both clinical and non-clinical practice, where sharing knowledge and training is an expected normality amongst colleagues.

The Midwifery Clinical Placement Facilitator leads on the training of evidence based practice for Student Midwives, including the review of current teaching and learning practice, creation of facilitation and learning materials and the support and mentoring allocations.

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five

hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jessica O'Reilly Job title: Midwifery and Gynaecology for Governance Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07790 988465

Jessica O'Reilly - Interim Deputy Head of Midwifery and Gynaecology for Governance
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