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Main area Midwife Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 15 hours per week (2 x 7.5 hour days) Job ref 409-7245710
Site Mersey West Lancashire Teaching Hospital (Whiston Site) Town Prescot Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 26/06/2025 23:59 Interview date 07/07/2025
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Job overview
Part Time 15 hours per week, permanent role.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife and clinically credible midwife to join the Qualityand Safety Team in the role as Specialist Midwife for Fetal Monitoring and Surveillance.
Applications are invited from existing Band 6 or above Midwives employed by Mersey & West LancashireTeaching Hospitals NHS Trust for the above post.
Applicants must have substantial post qualification experience as a Midwife.
The role will include supporting staff to enhance their fetal monitoring skills; training; working with the senior teamto develop a robust safety culture and acting as a role model demonstrating clinical leadership and midwiferyexpertise.
The post holder will work closely with the Governance Midwives to provide constructive and positive feedback ona regular basis; identifying and disseminating learning from good outcomes.
Contribute and participate in the senior midwifery bleep rota Monday-Friday between the hours of 7am-9pm(early or late shift, occasional bank holidays).
An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both Adults & Children is required for this post
Interview date: 7th July 2025
Main duties of the job
* Act as an advocate for women and their families and make appropriate referral where necessary.
* Promote normality whilst providing antenatal, and intrapartum care, which is reflective of research-based evidence in an appropriate setting.
* Liaise with other appropriate multidisciplinary and organisations for effective collaborative care as appropriate.
* Promote and lead on the introduction of any new initiatives relating to fetal monitoring to ensure staff areassessing fetal wellbeing in the context of the women’s individual risk assessment inclusive of herhealth, pregnancy, gestation and stage of labour.
* Develop midwives competence in undertaking intermittent auscultation of the fetal heart in low risk women as per NICE guidelines.
* Support staff in enhancing their skills in reducing risk within clinical practice.
* Provide midwifery expertise, ensuring all staff both midwifery and medical are supported in their practice, including pre-registration and doctors in training.
* Communicate sensitive and complex information effectively and support the care pathway.
* Identify and offer appropriate services to women and babies who are high risk.
* Attend Divisional meetings and provide a summary report on clinical issues.
* Participate in ongoing work into the Stillbirth audit, working collaboratively with the audit leads within maternity to present the audit findings.
* Participate and undertake in the development of maternity guidelines.
Working for our organisation
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
* Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
* Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
* National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To lead on the implementation, of the ‘Saving Babies Lives v2’ improving standards of fetal heart monitoring, interpretation, escalation, and appropriate management of care, reporting to the Quality and Safety Matron.
* To support and work with teams across Maternity to develop a programme to facilitate the implementation of clinically based teaching to support birth outcomes.
* To develop staff awareness in recognising pathophysiological factors that could contribute to the misinterpretation of the fetal heart pattern. This will be relevant when using both intermittent auscultation plotted on a partogram and electronic monitoring using a cardiotocograph (CTG).
* To develop and expand midwives competence in undertaking intermittent fetal heart auscultation when caring for low risk women. Ensure all staff can intelligently auscultate the fetal heart reflective in the documentation using either a pinnard or handheld Doppler sonicaid.
* To support staff in enhancing their fetal monitoring skills aiming to work towards reducing, identifying and escalation risk within clinical practise.
* To work with our senior midwifery team in the development of a safety culture, in partnership with the Quality and Safety Matron, the education team, the clinical midwifery managers, community matron, obstetricians and across the other providers within the CM LMS and develop creative new ways of learning.
* Provide on a regular basis both constructive and positive feedback and identify and disseminate learning from good outcomes.
* To work in collaboration with, and support the delivery suite co-ordinators, the senior midwives on the antenatal wards, community, and MLU, and obstetricians, to ensure safe birth outcomes.
* Act as a role model demonstrating clinical leadership and midwifery expertise.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Midwife, with current NMC
* Evidence of continued professional development post registration
* Masters in Midwifery
* Training in project or financial management
Knowledge
* An understanding of the key issues and challenges in Saving Babies lives V2.
* Experience of managing risks and reporting
* Experience of working with patients to co-produce and re design pathways of care
* Experience of business planning processes.
* Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at senior management team level.
* Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
* Understanding of working as part of a complex system and to negotiate change with diplomacy
Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. MWL is an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.
Given sometimes we receive a high volume of applications to work for us, please be aware, that we may close a vacancy earlier than stated should a sufficient number of applications be received from which a shortlist can be confirmed. Therefore, you are advised to apply at your earliest convenience.
The Trust may contact you during the recruitment process for your feedback on your experience. We always aim for continuous improvement in our practice.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective and experience you bring. We are grounded in the belief that diversity enhances our collective strength, fostering innovation and excellence within our workforce. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
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If you have not already done so, you are therefore encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service to which a small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
Flexible Working
We actively support flexible working patterns throughout MWL. Changes made to the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook mean that:
· All employees have the right to request flexible working from day one of employment.
· There is no limit on the number of requests they can make.
· Employees have the right to make requests, have them considered, regardless of the reason.
At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we will consider requests for flexible working. We would also encourage you to also discuss flexible working options at interview stage.
Working for Team MWL
Staff recognition is especially important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Employee of the month. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
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Additional Information
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are We are KIND, We are OPEN, We are INCLUSIVE, which can be found here .
An applicant guide to help and support you with your application and what to expect during your recruitment journey can be accessed in the supporting documents.
Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team MWL very soon.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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