Lead Midwifery Clinical Educator

Lead Midwifery Clinical Educator

Closing date: 29 July 2026

We are seeking a highly motivated registered Midwife to support education and workforce development across maternity services. The role collaborates across maternity services to promote a positive learning culture, evidence-based practice, and safe, high-quality maternity care.

You will lead on monitoring and reporting training compliance across all maternity clinical staff groups and 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.

The role provides leadership and support to midwives, students, internationally educated midwives, newly recruited staff, and maternity support workers, helping to create a positive learning culture across the service. 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.

Responsibilities include contributing to workforce development, preceptorship, quality improvement, governance, and compliance monitoring to support safe, evidence-based maternity care and continuous professional development across the workforce.

We have 10,000 people delivering quality services to our patients, serving 370,000 local residents and providing specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

We offer development opportunities, diverse experiences, and a chance to contribute to patient care and staff development within a supportive hospital environment.

You will have the opportunity to learn about working in a hospital, interact with colleagues from different roles, and develop your career path. You will be challenged, encouraged to innovate, and supported to improve services with a focus on patient care.

Main duties of the role include:

• 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 with the Matron for Maternity Safety and Quality, 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 activities 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.

• Professional Clinical Qualification with current NMC/HCPC registration
• Current professional body registration
• Possesses specialist clinical competencies relevant to their area of professional field with the ability to support others in developing and maintaining these skills.
• Masters degree in a relevant subject

• Significant post-registration experience at senior band 6/7 with excellent clinical skills
• Proficiency/competency in a wide range of clinical and enhanced skills relevant to area of experience
• Formulation, delivery and evaluation of teaching/training programmes
• Experience of competency assessment
• Experience of design, planning, implementation and evaluation of training programmes
• Experience of implementing changes to benefit patients and improve nursing practice
• Evidence of management skills and ability to lead a team
• Knowledge of Clinical Governance and safeguarding and its relevance to practice
• Evidence of actions taken to optimise learning outcomes and experience in the clinical environment
• Experience in national audit processes/peer review
• Recent evidence of teaching on nationally accredited courses
• Experience in participating in or leading service…