Education, Training and Development Opportunities

Maternity Recruitment at ASPH

Working here at Ashford and St Peter’s, you will be supported by our friendly team of professionals dedicated to our education programme.

Our Clinical Practice Education team are central in ensuring we offer outstanding maternity care. The team will work with you to ensure that your development pathway is unique and individualised. They will support you on your career pathway, driving your learning experience through a variety of opportunities, building upon your existing skills.

This could be:

Basic IT skills – upskilling on our digital platforms.
Clinical skills development – ‘This midwife can workshops’
Leadership development – the Mary Seacole programme

Exposure to specialist roles – ‘In your shoes’ Workshop
Coaching and mentoring opportunities

We also run a programme supporting and funding post graduate courses.

We are extremely proud of our philosophy of ‘growing our own’ and have a variety of apprenticeships across the Women’s Health and Paediatric division.

We believe in and invest in succession planning and supporting our staff with their career and academic aspirations and link this to your annual appraisal.

Preceptorship

Transitioning from a student to a registrant can be an exciting but daunting time. We want to ensure that you have the best possible start to your career, and we will provide you with a support package that aligns with the National preceptorship framework for midwifery (2023).

Our preceptorship programme is individualised, tailored to the needs of each preceptee and can be achieved between 9-18 months. A robust orientation programme allows you to familiarise yourself with our service, particularly our policies, protocols and digital platforms. We also ensure you have protected supernumerary time as an introduction to all clinical care settings.

This programme will strengthen and enhance your academic and midwifery practice to date and will help determine where you want to progress your future within the service. We also encourage our maternity staff to participate in multidisciplinary learning and engage with opportunities for continuous professional development.

The preceptorship programme will allow you to gain experience working in different areas of midwifery, including labour ward, postnatal, community, and birth centre rotations.

You will have protected time to meet regularly with our Preceptorship Lead to reflect on your practice, receive constructive feedback, and follow up support to achieve your goals.