South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Fetal Wellbeing Lead Midwife
The closing date is 11 June 2026.
The aim of this role is to ensure that all staff providing antepartum and intrapartum care across South Tees Trust are competent and skilled in fetal monitoring.
There will be a strong focus on workplace learning through supporting the multi‑professional team to ensure they can accurately and confidently interpret fetal monitoring. This workplace‑based learning will take place in all clinical settings – the midwifery‑led unit, community and the delivery suite settings, for example.
The role will involve working with the maternity management team, obstetricians and the clinical education lead for maternity to embed the knowledge and skills staff gain from our fetal monitoring training course and competency framework into the workplace. The post holder will be required to facilitate mandatory training for all staff members. This culture of continuous learning and continuous measurement for improvement will provide assurance that all staff undertaking fetal monitoring are competent to provide safe care.
The role will involve supporting the implementation of the Saving Babies Lives Bundle version 3 (SBLCB3) and requires clinical expertise and facilitation skills to enable the standards of risk assessment and fetal monitoring in line with element 4 of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle.
Main duties of the job
* The post holder will lead and facilitate the department’s approved programme aimed at equipping midwives to increase their knowledge and competence in both intermittent auscultation and cardiotocography training.
* Ensure that midwives and obstetricians are compliant with their yearly training and assessments of competency in fetal heart rate monitoring to demonstrate knowledge and competence in both the assessment of fetal wellbeing and identification of potential fetal compromise.
* Ensure that midwives are supported in developing clinical decision‑making in cases such as actual fetal compromise in all clinical settings.
* Work in collaboration with the Matron and manager of labour ward, clinical education team, midwifery practice development team, labour ward coordinators, and obstetricians to develop the department’s comprehensive training and competency assessment package, giving assurance that all staff responsible for fetal assessment and wellbeing are competent.
* Ensure that all midwives and obstetricians providing antenatal care – whether in the antenatal ward, antenatal clinic, maternity day unit and/or triage – undertake the competency test in assessing fetal wellbeing.
Experience
* Leadership and management skills
* Engaged in the local Quality Improvement process with proven skills, tools and experience
* Confident and experienced in challenging existing systems/protocols.
* Evidence of continued professional development
* Evidence of learning and development in line with the NMC revalidation requirements
Qualifications & Training
* Registered Midwife
* Teaching qualification or experience mentoring students
Knowledge & Skills
* Sound knowledge of the professional agenda in relation to fetal monitoring and fetal monitoring training.
* Understanding of Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle V3.
* Knowledge of risk management and clinical governance.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
* Evidence of excellent record‑keeping.
* Recognition and valuing the contribution of others within the multidisciplinary team and the importance of communication.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and, as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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