Job Title: International Clinical Midwifery Educator, Fernandez Foundation

Accountable to: Director of Midwifery Services, Fernandez Foundation 

Mission

We are committed to providing access to excellent, equitable, evidence-based and respectful healthcare for women and the new-born. We believe that life is sacred and precious, and we do our best to affirm and preserve it always.

Vision

A world in which every woman and child has access to high-quality, compassionate care, that enables a life of respect and dignity.

1. Teaching and Training 

• Provide clinical supervision and leadership working alongside the national midwifery educators (NMEs) team, monitoring, and coaching, during pre-planned sessions, ensuring midwives attain their clinical competencies, by participating in their clinical assessment process.
• Participate in the preparation of Personal Development Plans for staff and contribute to annual appraisals.
• Working closely with the NME team to support development of teaching and training.
• Professional Midwifery Training: Contribute to teaching midwifery subjects and women centred care in the twelve months nurse midwife practitioner education recognised by the Indian Nursing Council (INC).
• Training and development-Support the delivery of Midwifery care. Reflective learning and journal clubs encouraging midwives to use the sessions in reading evidence-based articles and translating to clinical practice
• Establishing and maintaining systems to record education, training, and development activities.
• Evaluation of education, training, and development activities 
• Ensuring that education, training and development activities are evidence based. 
• Assist the Fernandez Foundation with training and development strategy for the professional development of midwives, doulas, additional birth support staff

2. Clinical Mentorship

• Provide clinical mentoring by providing 80% clinical leadership working alongside our students and qualified midwives encouraging and promoting best practice.
• Leading by clinical expertise in developing midwifery confidence caring for mothers in the midwife led centre.
• Providing clinical leadership and communicating with women birth options promoting midwife led care in the midwife led unit

3. Professional Knowledge

• Demonstrate practitioner competence and professionalism. 
• Demonstrate a high level of knowledge and expertise relevant to the post. 
• Demonstrate knowledge of relevant legislation and standards. 
• Demonstrate an understanding of key issues and priorities in the Indian context. 
• Demonstrate commitment to educational and professional development issues. 
• Demonstrate skills in teaching and facilitation.

4. Research and Audit

• Demonstrates strong knowledge of research methods and knowledge of the challenges and opportunities to develop research, audit and evidence-based practice. 
• Encouraging and supporting the research agenda at local and national level 
• Encouraging research and audit development in the activities of the midwife led unit 
• Developing Research and clinical tools sharing the outcomes of the MLU

The above job specification is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties involved and consequently, the post holder may be required to perform other duties as appropriate to the post which may be assigned to him/her from time to time and to contribute to the development of the post while in office.