Overview
Thank you for considering East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust as your choice of employer. The Trust provides great transport access to London and the continent and is set in beautiful countryside with easy access to many Kentish beaches and towns.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Midwife with strong clinical leadership and facilitation skills, who will lead on improving the standard of risk assessment and fetal monitoring in line with element 4 of the Saving Babies' Lives 2 Care Bundle and safety action 8 of CNST. You will be joining a well-established team dedicated to the ongoing promotion of women centred personalised care in line with Better Births. If you feel you have these qualities and want to join our teams at a very exciting time we look forward to hearing from you.
Responsibilities
* The post holder will be a highly visible champion for safe and effective fetal heart rate interpretation through demonstration of expert clinical knowledge and practice.
* Education and training of maternity staff is a fundamental element of this post.
* The role will support our physiological approach to fetal monitoring applied to intelligent intermittent auscultation and continuous electronic fetal monitoring.
* The Fetal Monitoring Midwife will be a member of our Maternity Faculty for Multiprofessional Education.
* They will be mentored by a consultant obstetrician and midwife with advanced expert skills in fetal monitoring and work in partnership with the Labour Suite Lead Midwives and Consultants in ensuring that care provided to mothers and babies is both safe and effective.
About the Trust
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It is about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We’re looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
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