Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Midwifery Tutor
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 220-WHT-3304
- Employer
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whittington Health
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 Inclusive of Inner HCAS pro rata, per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Midwifery Tutor
NHS AfC: Band 7
Covid-19 Vaccination
Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.
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Job overview
Take responsibility for the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme for clinical and skills teaching of medical students to reflect their curricula, learning outcomes and competency requirement.
Familiarise self with the curricula of medical students, identify their practical skill requirements and oversee their experience in the clinical and practice areas.
To teach students in clinical situations or in the Skills Laboratory environment.
These will include:
· Antenatal skills – routine schedule of care and screening
· Practical labour ward skills – to include abdominal palpation and vaginal examination
· Midwifery and caring skills
· Recognition, management, support of women in labour including the administration of a range of analgesic agents
· Conduct of normal labour
· Recognition of abnormal labour
· Management of common complications and risk management protocols.
· Support students through the patient pathway
· Liaise with named officers in the University department and service to develop equitable learning opportunities, which may be multi-professional as appropriate.
· To develop the clinical learning environment.
Please see the job description and person specification for further details.
Main duties of the job
The role/duties of the post are outlined below. In undertaking this role, the employee will be expected to behave at all times in a way that is consistent with and actively supports the organization’s values or lead the search for and development of innovative methods of teaching.
Education and Student Support
- Identify learning needs of staff. Responsible for addressing identified learning needs in learning outcomes, core conditions and core presentations.
- Attend and teach at the introductory clinical skills circuit in UCL main campus each module
- Facilitate manikin based additional training in speculum and bimanual examination skills
- Support learning through history taking observation and examination
- Complete structured learning exercises mandatory to placement sign off
- Attend Single Best Answer (SBA) writing workshops and assist with writing for the 5th and final year exams.
- Attend OSCE writing workshops and assist with writing scenarios based in the setting of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Support the person centre pathway
- Deliver lectures centrally at UCL on core topics in introductory lecture weeks
- Deliver induction to each student cohort group
- Deliver weekly formal tutorial to students on placement on site at the Whittington
- Attend examiner training and examine in UCL examinations
Please see the job description and person specification for further details.
Working for our organisation
This position is based at Whittington Health medical campus, working on behalf of University College London Medical School.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES
Education and Student Support
- Identify learning needs of staff. Responsible for addressing identified learning needs in learning outcomes, core conditions and core presentations.
- Attend and teach at the introductory clinical skills circuit in UCL main campus each module
- Facilitate manikin based additional training in speculum and bimanual examination skills
- Support learning through history taking observation and examination
- Complete structured learning exercises mandatory to placement sign off
- Attend Single Best Answer (SBA) writing workshops and assist with writing for the 5th and final year exams.
- Attend OSCE writing workshops and assist with writing scenarios based in the setting of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Support the person centre pathway
- Deliver lectures centrally at UCL on core topics in introductory lecture weeks
- Deliver induction to each student cohort group
- Deliver weekly formal tutorial to students on placement on site at the Whittington
- Attend examiner training and examine in UCL examinations
Management
- Help to design the rotas for each academic year to ensure sufficient focus on normality and deviation from this
- Observe others teaching (nurses, doctors, midwives) and provide structure feedback on their teaching sessions for their development.
- Help to support students struggling on placement to achieve their competencies
- Attend UCL teaching committees, student experience meetings, module meetings, exam committee meetings and quality meetings
Practice
- Assist students with practical prescribing skills
- Teach clinical skills on manikins like vaginal examination, speculum examination, abdominal palpation
- Assist students with history taking and presenting
- Assist students in emergency management of obstetric and gynaecology scenarios
- Develop clinical reasoning skills through case based discussions
Research
- Promote evidence/research-based quality improvement work amongst the students and pair them with clinical supervisors.
- Disseminate and utilize audit and research results as appropriate in departmental and organisation wide audit and QI presentations days.
- Support students to share their research more widely in conferences
- Act as a change agent and support other staff in the implementation of new practices.
- Develop educational research projects within the placement to enhance learning especially multi-disciplinary working
Professional
- Identify personal objectives, reflect on progress and set a personal development plan annually.
- Exercise accountability and responsibility for continuing professional accreditation and registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
- Following individual performance management, liaise with the consultant lead in agreeing how identified training and development needs are to be met.
- Ensure that own practice is kept updated, using an acceptable model of clinical supervision.
- Take every opportunity to expand practice in line with current guidelines.
- Ensure that students are aware of, and practice in accordance with, all current guidelines and policies.
- Contribute to meeting the trusts strategic objectives.
- Develop management and leadership skills abilities under the direction of the consultant lead
- Demonstrate an awareness of global issues relating to clinical and professional education.
- Undertake any other duties that may reasonably be required.
Please see the job description and person specification for further details.
Person specification
Antenatal experience
Essential criteria
- Antenatal experience
Desirable criteria
- Leadership experience in an antenatal context
Labour ward experience
Essential criteria
- Labour ward experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience on labour ward teaching others
Teaching and developing others
Essential criteria
- Experience teaching and developing others
Desirable criteria
- Experience leading a staff group in educational development
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Johnny Swart
- Job title
- Consultant Physician in GIM and Geriatric Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
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