Fetal monitoring lead midwife

Are you an experienced midwife keen to influence the future delivery of safe, compassionate and effective maternity care? If so, we want to hear from you.

We are seeking a dedicated and motivated midwife to work as part of the maternity service training and development team as the lead midwife for fetal monitoring. The successful post holder will work alongside the obstetric lead consultant for fetal monitoring to lead in the delivery of fetal heart monitoring training and audit within the maternity service.

The Fetal monitoring lead midwife will work with the service development midwife to monitor element four of the Saving Babies Lives care bundle undertaking regular audit. The post holder will also be responsible for delivering a curriculum of fetal monitoring education to the multidisciplinary team.

You will assume the role of fetal monitoring lead, improving standards of fetal heart monitoring, interpretation, escalation, education and appropriate management of care within the service in all settings.

You will be required to act as a role model demonstrating clinical leadership and midwifery expertise at all times., You will havecontinuing responsibility for ensuring that there is an ongoing programme of education for clinical staff within maternity services and that this education is delivered in a suitable style to ensure that staff provide up to date clinical care.

In addition, as fetal monitoring lead you areresponsible for consolidating existing knowledge and skills, improving standards of fetal heart rate monitoring, interpretation, escalation and appropriate management of care. Supporting and working with the maternity team, you will ensure that colleagues engaged in fetal wellbeing monitoring are adequately supported through clinical supervision to develop a programme to facilitate the implementation of clinically based teaching to support improved birth outcomes.

you will develop and expand midwives' competence in undertaking intermittent fetal heart auscultation. They will support staff in enhancing their fetal monitoring skills aiming to work towards reducing, identifying and escalating risk within clinical practice and work with the maternity team in the development of a safety culture within the context of resource constraints and multiple conflicting priorities in relation to fetal monitoring.

Offering 4 places of birth, we are committed to delivery of safe and high quality maternity care for women and families.

The maternity service at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is proud to be able to offer 4 places of birth including birth at home, in a free standing birth centre, in an alongside birth centre and in an obstetric delivery suite.

With a home birth rate of over 3% and 3 established continuity teams personalised care is high on our agenda for all women and families. The service has been identified as one of three North West Regional maternal medicine centres and the team are working towards an establishing this service to support women who experience more complex pregnancy .

We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around clinical care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.