Fetal Monitoring Specialist Midwife

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced and motivated midwife to join our maternity team as a Fetal Monitoring Specialist Midwife at St Thomas’ Hospital, one of the largest and busiest maternity services in London. This is an exciting opportunity to lead our transition to physiological CTG interpretation, supporting safe intrapartum care and enhancing education across midwifery and obstetric teams.

The post-holder will work clinically on the Hospital Birth Centre, providing real-time fetal monitoring teaching, assessing staff competency, and supporting the implementation of updated guidelines and training packages. You will work closely with the Clinical Governance Lead Midwife, HBC Matron, HBC Obstetric Lead and Practice Development Midwives to drive high-quality, evidence-based practice.

This role requires excellent clinical skills, strong teaching ability, effective communication and the confidence to support, influence and challenge colleagues when needed. You will also participate in audit, guideline development and Epic / MOXOS implementations.

If you are passionate about improving intrapartum fetal surveillance, supporting staff learning, and contributing to safe maternity care, we would love to hear from you.

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Closing Date :
Midnight 4th January 2026

Interview Date : 16th January 2026

• Lead the implementation of physiological CTG interpretation across the service.
• Provide daily clinical teaching and support to midwifery and obstetric staff on the Hospital Birth Centre.
• Deliver and evaluate formal CTG training, assess competence, and develop individual learning packages.
• Contribute to the development and review of CTG guidelines, policies, and educational materials.
• Promote safe, high-quality, woman-centred intrapartum care, ensuring clear communication with women and families.
• Support the use and optimisation of the centralised CTG monitoring system.
• Collect, analyse and share data relating to CTG incidents, training outcomes and service improvements.
• Work collaboratively with senior midwifery, obstetric, and governance teams to strengthen intrapartum safety.
• Participate in quality improvement, audit, and risk management activities.
• Act as a visible clinical leader, role-modelling best practice, supporting staff, and facilitating a positive learning culture.
• Contribute to service development, performance standards and other implementations.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with along history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.

We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic midwife to join our maternity service as a Fetal Monitoring Specialist Midwife. St Thomas’ Hospital hosts one of the largest single-site maternity units in London, with over 6,800 births per year, a busy Hospital Birth…