Trainee Fetal Wellbeing Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) will deliver experienced, registered health care practitioners. It is a level of practice characterized by a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making. This is underpinned by an academic level 7 master's level award or equivalent that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research, with demonstration of area specific clinical competence. A trainee ACP is an experienced healthcare professional employed in a funded training post specifically to undertake the required training to work at the level of Advanced Practice. The training comprises study at master's level (academic level 7) and work-based learning to develop competence across all four pillars of the ACP Multi-professional Framework. T

The Fetal Monitoring trainee ACP, alongside the obstetric lead for fetal monitoring, will be the lead on improving and maintaining a high standard for fetal surveillance antepartum and intrapartum.

The post holder will be responsible for developing and implementing a training programme, skills assessment test and promote a culture of ongoing learning and development, providing guidance and expertise within the multi-professional team. This will include putting in place strategies and framework that ensure Women's Health services meets the Trust, Group, sector, region, NHSE and regulators standards for fetal surveillance., To support and work with the teams across the Maternity department to develop a programme plan to facilitate the implementation of a clinically based teaching and competency based assessment package to aim towards achieving better birth outcomes.

To develop staff awareness in recognising pathophysiological factors that could contribute to misinterpretation of the fetal heart pattern.

To ensure the relevant staff are assessing fetal well-being appropriately using the entire context of the woman's general health, pregnancy, gestation and stage of labour.

To support staff in enhancing their fetal monitoring skills aiming to work towards reducing, identifying and escalating risk within clinical practice. To take the lead role in supporting the development of a safety culture within the context of resource constraints and multiple conflicting priorities in relation to fetal monitoring.

To work in collaboration with and support of the Delivery Suite Coordinators, Obstetricians, Maternity Matrons, Consultant Midwife, Practice Development Midwives, Birth Centre Lead/Midwives, and Community Midwifery team.

Working with the labour ward Lead Consultant Obstetrician, Maternity Matrons, Birth Centre Leads, Community Leads, and the Consultant Midwives to develop a comprehensive training and competency testing package to give assurance that all staff responsible for fetal assessment and wellbeing are competent.?

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.