Midwifery Practice Educator

at  Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen, due to the emerging nature of midwifery services in Manchester for a highly skilled, enthusiastic and experienced midwife to join the maternity education and practice development team as a Midwifery Practice Educator. The vision is for successful post-holder(s) to support the delivery of the midwifery preceptorship programme and on-going education programmes at St Mary’s managed clinical service North Manchester General Hospital site, with cross site engagement and working.
Saint Mary’s Hospital Managed Clinical Service is the largest maternity service in the country providing care for women across Manchester, its surrounding areas and the North West region. The three sites are Saint Mary’s oxford Road, Saint Mary’s North Manchester and Saint Mary’s Wythenshawe. Saint Mary’s Hospital is a well-known centre of excellence, all with a vibrant and lively working atmosphere. You will work with the Lead Midwife for Education and Practice Development team and other multi -disciplinary team members to support education, practice development and preceptorship.
You will find working with us extremely rewarding as part of a team dedicated to providing the best possible care and experience to all our women and families. You’ll be joining our Trust at an exciting time as we grow and improve our services, and you will be able to make a positive contribution to its future success.
To support your career, we offer a wide range of development and educational initiatives that will assist your career here at MFT. We are strongly committed to investing in all our employees, to ensure you have a robust Personal Professional Development Plan to enhance your prospects and opportunities
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘ Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk .
We’re looking forward to hearing from you

Please refer the Job description for details