Lead Midwifery Clinical Educator | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Preston

Do you want to make a difference to patient care and staff development? We are seeking one highly motivated registered Midwife to support education and workforce development across the service.

Our Lead Midwifery Clinical Educator will work collaboratively across maternity services to support a positive learning culture, promote evidence-based practice, and contribute to the delivery of safe, high-quality maternity care. You will lead on monitoring and reporting training compliance across all maternity clinical staff groups and will coordinate the planning, implementation, and delivery of internal education programmes, including skills drills, simulation training, and competency-based learning identified through training needs analysis, governance themes, and service priorities.

In this role, you will lead and support maternity education and workforce development across the service, working closely with the Matron for Maternity Safety and Quality and the wider multidisciplinary team. You will coordinate and deliver maternity education programmes including emergency skills training, simulation, skills drills, competency support, and clinical development aligned to national standards and CNST requirements.

The role will provide leadership and support to midwives, students, internationally educated midwives, newly recruited staff, and maternity support workers, helping to create a positive learning culture across maternity services. You will also contribute to workforce development, preceptorship, quality improvement, governance, and compliance monitoring, supporting safe, evidence-based maternity care and continuous professional development across the workforce.

Main duties of the role:

• Lead and support delivery of maternity education and training programmes aligned to CNST Maternity Incentive Scheme requirements, national standards, and local service priorities.
• Coordinate and deliver clinical skills training, emergency skills drills, simulation, competency development, and practical learning opportunities for maternity staff and students.
• Provide professional leadership, clinical expertise, and support to midwives, internationally educated midwives, newly recruited staff, students, and maternity support workers.
• Work collaboratively with the Matron for Maternity Safety and Quality, matrons, governance teams, obstetric and neonatal services, Higher Education Institutions, and the wider multidisciplinary team to support safe and effective maternity care.
• Lead on the development, implementation, and evaluation of maternity education programmes, competency frameworks, and learning resources.
• Support workforce development, preceptorship, succession planning, induction, orientation, and career development across maternity services.
• Lead and support quality assurance processes relating to maternity education, competency compliance, professional development, and training governance.
• Participate in audit, governance, and quality improvement activity to support learning from incidents, complaints, and national maternity safety priorities.
• Monitor and report maternity training compliance data and support action planning where required.
• Promote reflective practice, restorative clinical supervision, and continuous professional development within maternity services.
• Maintain professional registration, mandatory training, and ongoing professional development in line with Nursing and Midwifery Council requirements.