Saving Babies Lives Midwife - Fetal Surveillance | Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

· The aim of this role is to ensure that all staff providing antepartum andintrapartum care across Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) MaternityServicesarecompetentandskilledinfetalmonitoring.

· We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Midwife with strong clinicalleadership and facilitation skills.

· The post-holder will work autonomously as the lead midwife practitioner for Fetal Surveillance and will lead on improving the standard ofrisk assessment and fetal monitoring in line with element 4 of the SavingBabies'Lives 2Care Bundle.

· The postholder will be a highly visible champion for safe and effective fetalheartrateinterpretationthroughdemonstrationofexpertclinicalknowledgeand practice. Education and training of maternity staff is a fundamentalelementofthis post.

· The postholder will communicate sensitive and complex information relating to abnormal fetal surveillance findings to parents in labour who will frequently be in pain and highly anxious

· Therolewillsupportembeddingourphysiologicalapproachtofetalmonitoring appliedtointelligentintermittentauscultation andCTGmonitoring.

· The Fetal Surveillance Midwife will work closely with the consultantobstetrician with advanced expert skills in fetal monitoring andwork in partnership with the Delivery Suite Lead Midwife and Consultant inensuringthatcareprovidedtomothersandbabiesisbothsafeandeffective.

· Represent the learning and development team to liaise with the Risk Management team toidentifycurrenttrendsinriskregardingfetalmonitoring

· Identifyingcasestogeneratelearning -fromshopfloorwithnoharm

· Identifying cases to generate learning - from risk and governance and from termadmissionsto the neonatal unitfromanintrapartumfetalmonitoringperspective

· Improve the safety and experience of women and families by developingstaff to provide the appropriate level of fetal monitoring related clinicalknowledge, skills and competencies.This will include establishing or use of existing systems to demonstrate practice development improvements,linktrainingintoriskassessmentandsharebest practice.

· Facilitate the orientation of fetal monitoring guidelines and practice for new membersofstaff., · Working collaboratively with obstetric consultants and the practice development team in maternity to increase midwives' and obstetricians'knowledge and competence in identifying fetal well-being, escalating andmanaging potential fetal compromise and actual fetal compromise in allclinicalsettings.

· Develop staff awareness in recognising factors that could contribute tomisinterpretation of cardiotocographs (CTGs) and impaired clinicaldecisionmaking.

· Ensure staff are assessing fetal well-being in the context of the woman's health, pregnancy, gestation, clinical risk factors and stage of labour and usethis toinformtheirdecisionmaking

· Developmidwives'competenceinundertakingintermittentauscultationof thefetalheart in lowrisk women asper guidelines

· Ensure staff can intelligently auscultate the fetal heart in labour in themidwifery led unit and at home and increase confidence in staff inauscultatingthefetal heart intermittently

· Ensure that all midwives and obstetricians providing antenatal carewhetherintheantenatalward,clinic,dayassessmentunitandortriage undertakethecompetencytest in assessingfetal wellbeing

· Provide teaching and support for staff who need to repeat the competencytest

· Work with the education lead for maternity and CSF's to facilitate theweekly CTG and Intermittent Auscultation meetings, maintainingattendanceregisterstoensurecompliancetothemandatoryrequirement for midwives and medical staff. Disseminate learning which emerges from workshops

· OrganiseCTGmasterclasses ensuringtheattendanceof alleligiblestaff

· Useeveryopportunitytofacilitateteaching,learningandreflectionwithin the clinicalarea

· Take responsibility for teaching sessions on mandatory training days withregardstofetalsurveillance.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.

We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in West Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.Fordcombe Hospital is near Tunbridge Wells and became part of the Trust in October 2024. It focusses on planned care and has two operating theatres, 28 inpatient and day care beds, diagnostic services including X-ray, MRI, CT and endoscopy, and a number of consultation and treatment rooms.

In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.

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