Fetal monitoring lead midwife

You will have continuing 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 will beresponsible 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 be responsible for developing staff awareness in recognising pathophysiological factors that could contribute to misinterpretation of the fetal heart pattern. This will be relevant when using both intermittent
auscultation and electronic fetal heart rate monitoring (CTG). You will develop and expand midwives competence in undertaking intermittent fetal heart auscultation. Ensuring all staff can auscultate the fetal heart reflective in the documentation using either a pinnard or handheld doppler sonicaid. You 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. To review current fetal monitoring training packages and educational resources, in partnership with the consultant midwife, the education team, the clinical midwifery managers, midwifery matrons, obstetricians and across the LMS, and develop creative ways of learning. To facilitate learning and maintain oversight of incidents and the pertinent themes and
trends, there is a requirement to lead on cases of adverse outcome involving poor FHR interpretation and practice. In addition Local Maternity System (LMS) and national networking with external units to learn about and keep abreast of developments in the field, and to track and introduce best practice are essential components. This will also include both constructive and positive feedback and identify and disseminate learning from good outcomes To work in collaboration with, and support the delivery suite coordinators, the senior midwives on the antenatal ward and community and the midwifery led birthing unit, and obstetricians, to ensure safe birth outcomes Act as a role model demonstrating clinical leadership and midwifery expertise.