Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Midwife for Practice Development & Maternity Education
Get notified of more jobs like this · No spam, ever
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Band 8a Maternity leave cover August 2026-March 2027
The Practice Development (PD) Team is central in our commitment to enhance the quality of the clinical learning environment and deliver meaningful, supportive learning and development opportunities within maternity services.
The post holder will operationally and strategically manage Maternity’s Practice Development Team and Maternity’s education programme.
They will lead on the educational provision of ongoing learning and development within maternity’s clinical environments by ensuring the provision of high-quality learning opportunities and supportive educational input and professional development activities for learners and staff within maternity services.
They will be responsible for the development and delivery of interprofessional learning opportunities and training programmes, ensuring a learning culture that promotes equality and values diversity.
This role has been created to work in collaboration with the Midwifery Leadership Team to provide learning and development support to all maternity staff but especially those who are newly qualified or newly appointed staff.
They will work collaboratively with the Midwifery Leadership Team to ensure learning and development within the service meet CQC standards, the MIS criteria, NMC codes of conduct and other relevant national and local guidance.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
- Work collaboratively with the Midwifery Leadership Team to ensure learning and development within the service are benchmarked against and meet CQC standards, the MIS criteria, NMC codes of conduct and other relevant national and local guidance.
- With the Director of Midwifery, plan a schedule of education and training that is geared towards relevant aspects of service development.
- Lead development and delivery of inter-professional learning and develop and nurture professional education programmes for the multidisciplinary team, aimed at encouraging ‘life-long learning.
- Lead on and co-ordinate the development and on-going training for newly qualified and newly appointed midwives and maternity support workers.
- Work with the Midwifery Leadership Team to develop and deliver high standards of women centred, evidence-based care.
- Participate in the planning and delivery of multi-professional education provision in the maternity department. They will lead OxMUD, PROMPT and support the Fetal Wellbeing Day as well as facilitating other training.
- Chair the MPEF (Maternity Practice Education Forum) working collaboratively with the Lead Midwife for Education and Programme Lead Oxford Brookes University to ensure that:
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Please see the Job description for further details of the main duties.
About the Trust
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Finn Tysoe
- Job title: Divisional Education Lead
- Email address: Finn.Tysoe@ouh.nhs.uk
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Location