Job overview
Band 7 - Fetal Monitoring Specialist Midwife, 30 hours per week
We are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic professional to join our maternity education team.
The role involves cross site working across both Basingstoke and Winchester acute sites and can include an element of home working upon request.
The successful candidate should be experienced in both fetal monitoring, including physiological CTG interpretation, and teaching and coaching all members of maternity and obstetric staff. The role includes continuing our current training programme and implementing all aspects of element 4 of Saving Babies Lives element 4.
We can offer a number of development opportunities for an existing band 7 looking for a change or an experienced band 6 midwife.
Happy to talk flexible working.
Main duties of the job
• Raise the profile of fetal wellbeing monitoring both in Electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) and Intermittent auscultation (IA) and ensure that colleagues engaged in fetal wellbeing monitoring are adequately supported.
• Maintain visibility cross site as the fetal monitoring expert to embed element 4 of Saving Babies Lives care bundle (version 3)
• Be responsible for improving the practice of monitoring fetal wellbeing and consolidating existing knowledge of monitoring fetal wellbeing
• Interface with external units and agencies to learn about and keep abreast of developments in the field, and to track and introduce best practice and share the learning across the Trust and within SHIP.
• Be responsible for co-ordinating the implementation of actions and provision of evidence to support service improvement and compliance with organisational standards
• Work collaboratively with the Practice Development Team and the Quality, Safety and Risk Management Team within the Maternity Service.
• Support the Practice Development Team in planning and delivery of the fetal monitoring teaching and learning agenda.
• Attend weekly review meetings with line manager and provide 3 monthly projective action plans
• Provide monthly and quarterly performance reports to the Director of midwifery in the desired time frame and quarterly updates for governance meetings
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs over 8,600 staff and has a turnover of over £450 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the job Description and Person Specification document attached.
For questions or more information please contact Lauren Brown on or 07748 920836.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Registered midwife
2. Evidence of CPD
3. Mentorship qualification or equivalent (i.e. PS/PA)
Desirable criteria
4. Educated to Masters level
5. Additional training on physiological interpretation of CTG
6. Teaching or coaching qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
7. Experience of undertaking audits/surveys and change management
8. Experience of working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams
9. At least 3 years experience in an NHS healthcare setting
10. Experience in a teaching or education role
Desirable criteria
11. Evidence of undertaking senior/lead roles dealing with risk management, quality of care or patient safety issues.
12. Practical experience of leading Clinical Audit
Skills
Essential criteria
13. Expert practitioner in fetal monitoring with knowledge of the national agenda to implement change and monitor outcomes
14. Knowledge of quality improvement methods and techniques.
Desirable criteria
15. Specialist knowledge of all stages of the governance cycle. In depth specialist knowledge of NHS clinical governance strategy, policy and current issues.