NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.
The shift pattern for this post is: Monday - Friday, flexible.
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NHSGGC Maternity services are part of the Women and Children's Directorate, which is part of the Acute Directorate of NHSGGC Board. Care is delivered by a large multi-disciplinary team of professionals, including midwives, medical professionals, and Allied Health Professionals. Our maternity services support nearly 14,000 women each year during their maternity journey.
We work closely with colleagues from public health, primary, and social care, to ensure that there is a joined-up approach to supporting new families. Maternity services are provided through universal community midwifery care during the antenatal period. Antenatal appointments and education take place in a range of settings, including in our large maternity units, but also at women's homes and in HSCP centres and GP's surgeries. All women receive between eight and twelve antenatal appointments, with the aim to start care from eight to ten weeks' of pregnancy.
Women and newborns are then visited at home after the birth for at least ten days, with most care provided by the named primary community midwife, before being transferred to the care of health visitors. Women with more complex needs in pregnancy also receive antenatal care from their named obstetrician in one of the five maternity units. Ultrasound scans, additional psychological interventions and other multidisciplinary care, including dietetics and physiotherapy are also available across all sites.
The great majority of women give birth in one of the three large maternity units: the Princess Royal Maternity Hospital (PRMH) in the North of the city, the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) in the South and the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) in Paisley. Midwife-led intrapartum care is available in the new alongside midwife-led units within the labour suites at the PRMH, RAH and QEUH and in our long established two Clyde community maternity units at the Inverclyde and the Vale of Leven. Homebirth is also available for women who choose this option. The service is well respected offering a practice learning environment in maternity care for medical students, paramedic and AHP students and midwifery students. Maternity services are provided for women coming from other health boards, based on their preference or medical need.
We provide both planned and emergency caesarean births at all three large maternity units. The three large maternity units provide 24/7 triage services, early pregnancy and day assessment services, as well as inpatient antenatal and postnatal wards. The anaesthetic teams on each site can offer pain relief options such as epidural or remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia. Gynaecology inpatient care is provided at the PRMH, QEUH and RAH, with a range of outpatient care provided in other GGC units including the New Victoria hospital, Stobhill hospital, Vale of Leven and Inverclyde Royal hospital. The maternity and gynaecology services across GGC are managed as one service, with a GGC-wide leadership team and local maternity unit leads. There are unified structures and processes for guidelines and policies, clinical risk, practice development, staffing and continuing professional development.
The QEUH maternity unit has a specialist regional fetal medicine unit. Medical terminations for abnormalities are offered, with a higher rate in the QEUH due to the fetal medicine unit. Women who have concerns about their pregnancy during the first trimester are able to contact the Early Pregnancy assessment service (EPAS) available in each of our units. Women are able to access care through our EPAS and, then, as required, through our gynaecology services if required. Women experiencing a loss from 16 weeks' onwards are generally cared for by midwives on our labour suites, in dedicated bereavement rooms. Over the last two years, we have undertaken service improvement work in relation to our bereavement care including:
* The refurbishment of counselling rooms
* The planned refurbishment of two loss rooms in the QEUH labour suite
* A range of new leaflets for women including information on post-mortems, recurrent miscarriage, molar and ectopic pregnancies, options for cremation and burial and early pregnancy loss.
* GGC wide training for the multi-disciplinary team on maternity loss issues, including discussing post-mortems and memory making
* One to one bereavement midwife ongoing support following discharge home.
We are now in the fortunate position of being able to appoint to one whole time equivalent bereavement midwife role to continue to develop these service improvements. This role will be divided between Clyde and the Princess Royal Maternity hospital. The post could be held by one full time midwife or two midwives part time.
Informal contact: Tracy Orr and Laura Flynn, Lead Midwife, ,
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