Legacy Mentor - Exeter, United Kingdom - NHS Devon Integrated Care Board

NHS Devon Integrated Care Board

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Exeter, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Are you a Registered Midwife with extensive experience and a zest for your profession?

Are you keen to share your knowledge, skills and experience and pass on your legacy to the next generation of nurses and midwives?

Can you work independently, be innovative, educate and bring out the joy in clinical practice?

We have a fabulous opportunity for you

MidwiferyLegacy Mentor, Band: 6, hours per week

Devon Integrated Care System (ICS) Retention Hub is an exciting new team, created to support our incredible people to be happy and fulfilled throughout their careers in health and social care.

The retention hub is passionate about great employee experience and staff wellbeing, career opportunities, personal development and individual staff journeys.

As a Midwifery Legacy Mentor you will support colleagues, primarily newly qualified, to enhance their clinical practice at the same time as helping build their confidence through mentorship, coaching and practical support.

You will work in a variety of settings across health and social care and will need to feel confident in building relationships and collaborating with others.

You will be able to demonstrate empathy and patience, be passionate about your profession and be able to provide pastoral support to colleagues.

Please note this post is offered on a secondment basis only and therefore we would expect you to be working within a health and care setting.

To help facilitate a positive working environment for people in their early career and at different stages thereafter through coaching and mentoring
Support clinical professionals and/or students on placement to enhance their clinical knowledge, skills and practice at the same time as building their personal and professional confidence
Provide clinical expertise on a range of projects, supporting best practice and enhancing the learning environment for all
Raise the profile of the role of legacy mentors and share good practice with others
Work as an integral member of the team to develop appropriate strategies and support for relevant staff in early and later stage career and support retention

NHS Devon Integrated Care System

As an Integrated Care System (ICS), we recognise now more than ever that we can only provide the care that people really need by working together.

Together for Devon therefore represents a partnership where health and care services work together with local communities to improve peoples health, wellbeing and care.

It aims to transform health and care services so they are clinically, socially and financially sustainable.

Our vision is simple:
equal chances for everyone in Devon to lead long, happy and healthy lives.

To achieve this, we have set out six ambitions for the next five years that will help us transform services including:

Effective and efficient care, embedding the Integrated Care Model, the Devon deal (a citizen-led approach to health and care), Children and young people, Digital Devon and ensuring Equality.

About NHS Devon

As part of the Devon ICS, NHS Devon Integrated Care Board is responsible for the majority of county's NHS budget, and develops a plan to improve peoples health, deliver high-quality care and better value for money.

The organisation is led by a diverse board, with an aim to improve peoples lives in Devon wherever they live, to reduce health inequalities and make sure we can deliver these services for the long term.

Please see the attached Job description and person specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.

Please note that NHS Devon are in the high level planning stages of moving to a new central, single office based in Pynes Hill, Exeter, in the Autumn of 2023.

In anticipation of these accommodation changes, your contractual base is likely to be our new Exeter site, however this will be confirmed to you once we have further clarity on our new accommodation.

In recognition of the large geography of Devon we continue to embrace the benefits of agile, hybrid working, including working from home when appropriate.