Foetal Wellbeing Lead Midwife

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced and passionate midwife to join our leadership team.

The lead midwife for fetal wellbeing, alongside the obstetric lead for fetal wellbeing, will be responsible for developing and implementing a programme of education, a competency assessment and a culture of on-going risk assessment and support, in relation to fetal wellbeing assessment and clinical management in pregnancy, labour and birth.

The post holder will provide expertise to the service and support the implementation of national policy and national guidance/ evidence in relation to fetal monitoring and achieving healthy birth outcomes.

The post holder will support the implementation of the Saving Babies' Lives Care Bundle version 3 elements in relation to risk assessment, identification of babies at risk of fetal growth restriction and fetal wellbeing and surveillance.

There will be a strong emphasis on workplace learning through supporting the MDT team in practice.

Main duties of the job

The aim of this role is to build on the current practice and improve the standard of fetal monitoring, to achieve healthy birth outcomes within the Trust.

To achieve compliance with the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle Version 3.

The postholder will lead and facilitate a programme of education and development in relation to the fetal monitoring and fetal growth. This will be achieved by providing positive practice learning to the highest quality through teaching and empowering the midwives and obstetricians to utilise their skills and available evidence to identify potential fetal compromise and actual fetal compromise.

Lead on improving the standard of antepartum and intrapartum risk assessments and fetal monitoring.

Review and update the current fetal monitoring and fetal growth training and curriculum.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.