Lead Fetal Medicine and Antenatal Screening Midwife

An exciting opportunity for a registered midwife to work with the Maternity team to be our joint-lead Band 7 Midwife for Fetal Medicine and Antenatal/Newborn screening and provide the midwifery leadership of the screening teams. It is a part-time role 22.5 hrs/week
They will work in partnership to ensure that the Trust provides an exemplary screening and fetal medicine service ensuring that the National screening KPI, workign closely with the MDT.
They will provide expect knowledge and teaching to the midwifery team on all aspects of screening and fetal medicine.
They will provide direct line management of the teams, be the point of contact and support for women and birthing people with abnormal screening results. They will provide counselling and guidance to help the people under their care make informed decisions and assist in the formulation of individualised, specialist care plans, + Providing midwifery support in the combined clinic, as part of the MDT including Fetal medicine doctor, neonatal consultant
+ Providing midwifery support at planned appointments with women attending fetal medicine appointments with known felt abnormality.
+ Direct line management of Newborn hearing, team, Antenatal screening and fetal medicine team
+ Ensuring adequate staffing so that a member of the screening/fetal medicine midwifery team is available for immediate referrals from the fetal medicine scan clinics for women with new diagnosis, provide individual support and advice to the women and their families, and make any referrals to other internal/external agencies that are required to enhance care.
+ Reporting notifiable abnormalities to the appropriate bodies in a prompt time-frame.
+ Coordinating plans of care where women are receiving care from multiple specialties/agencies and ensure all plans for woman/neonate are clearly documented and communicated with the wider maternity team as appropriate
+ Ensure all guidelines/policies related to this service are maintained in line with latest Local and National recommendations.
+ Ensuring the service in in line with KPI expectations
+ Collate and cleanse data, create and ensure completion of effective action plans, create reports for local and national reporting.
+ Present reports and chair quarterly meeting with NHS England and associated parties.

Working for our organisation
Our Maternity Vision is 'Working together with women, birthing people and families to offer compassionate, supportive care and informed choice; striving for equity and excellence in our maternity service.'
The Maternity unit deliver just under 5000 babies a year. We provide care for a diverse population across West Berkshire. Part of our maternity strategy is equity in access and outcomes tackling the multiple dimensions that affect local healthcare inequalities.
The unit comprises of a delivery suite, midwife led birth centre, postnatal and antenatal wards, outpatients and Day Assessment Unit. We have a very successful home birth service, specialist teams to support vulnerable women and continuity of care teams.
We have developed a 'seeking sanctuary ' service which is a mutidisciplinary approach to providing care to pregnant women seeking sanctuary in the UK and their families. This service was presented as good practice in the NHS three year delivery plan.
We have an established joint led services for rainbow, bereavement, diabetes, fetal medicine, pre term birth.
We are strongly committed to developing our services and ensuring the those that work with us are given support and development opportunities., + To act as a midwifery specialist in the field of fetal medicine and provide clinical midwifery support in the antenatal and newborn screening programmes. Assist and advise other healthcare professionals in the care of women and children undergoing testing and diagnosis.

Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated 'Good' with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust's overall rating has also improved to 'good'. This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust. Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.
At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is "Working together to provide outstanding care for our community."
We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions
We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate
We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live
We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice
Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don't you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.
Diversity is what makes us interesting… Inclusion is what will make us outstanding.
Inequality exists and the journey to eliminate it is not easy. Every step we take will be a purposeful step forward to deliver a truly inclusive culture where all our people are enabled to deliver outstanding care, where background is no barrier, and where everyone can be their authentic self and we truly represent our patient community., After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system (TRAC). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, that as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website.
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+ To actively engage and communicate with families, helping them to understand complex results of investigations and diagnosis using appropriate terminology and providing relevant written information.
+ Line management of Newborn/Antenatal Screening and Fetal medicine teams
Staff Benefits
+ Flexible working opportunities and a strong emphasis on your work, life balance
+ Annual leave - 27 days for new starters, plus bank holidays. Increasing to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years NHS service. Pro rata for part time staff
+ NHS pension scheme
+ Employee Assistance Programme
+ Money Advice Service
+ Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave for eligible staff
+ On-site nursery (based at RBH)
+ Full educational library services
+ Cycle to work scheme, lockable storage for cycles
+ Bus to work scheme
+ Excellent rail and bus links
+ A huge range of Health Service Discounts at hundreds of big brands from holidays to gadgets and restaurants to retail.