Fetal Monitoring Specialist Midwife

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a position as a Fetal Monitoring Specialist Midwife at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, working within the established Midwifery Specialist team and across the Doncaster and Bassetlaw sites.

You must be able to demonstrate excellent leadership skills, be a caring and compassionate individual focused on providing excellent quality patient care, and work within the values held by the Trust.

The post holder will work to support when caring for women in labour, including the implementation of “effective fetal monitoring in labour” of the saving babies lives version 3 care bundle 2023.

The post holder will lead and support staff to develop their fetal monitoring skills when caring for women in labour, including intermittent and continuous fetal monitoring.

The aim of this role is to build on, embed current practice, upskill, and support staff members.

To facilitate this, the role is Monday to Friday within core hours (8am–5pm). This may vary, and be subject to review, depending on the specialty service needs.

This is a full time, 37.5 hour working week.

• Lead and facilitate a programme aimed to equip midwives and obstetricians to increase their knowledge and competence in identifying fetal wellbeing, potential fetal compromise and actual fetal compromise in all clinical settings and improve clinical decision making.
• Develop staff awareness in recognising factors that could contribute to misinterpretation of cardiology (CTG) and impaired clinical decision making.
• Ensure staff are assessing fetal wellbeing in the context of the woman’s health, pregnancy, gestation and stage of labour.
• Develop midwives’ competence in undertaking intelligent intermittent auscultation of fetal heart in low-risk women as per trust and NICE guidelines.
• Take the lead in supporting the development of a safety culture within the context of resource constraints and multiple conflicting priorities.
• Audit the compliance for the hourly review of fetal wellbeing in labour, assessment of risk factors and processes/escalate concerns.
• To support staff in developing and continuously improving skills in relation to fetal monitoring.
• Monitoring compliance with annual CTG compliance and intermittent auscultation training for all midwifery and obstetric staff.
• Educate, facilitate and design a teaching programme with teaching materials with an innovative approach.

DBTH is one of Yorkshire’s Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.

At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.

As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:

• Extensive range of learning opportunities
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditions
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
• NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Alexandra Cartwright

Job title:

Maternity Matron for Inpatients Email address:  Telephone number: