Fetal Monitoring Specialist Midwife

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in London seeks an experienced Fetal Monitoring Specialist Midwife to enhance fetal monitoring practices and provide education to clinical staff. The role involves real-time teaching, guideline implementation, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to ensure a high standard of maternity care. Ideal candidates will have strong clinical skills, leadership abilities, and experience in fetal medicine. This position offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in safely delivering care for mothers and babies.

Benefits

Supportive team environment

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Must demonstrate the ability to act as a specialist adviser.
• Post registration experience in fetal medicine and bereavement is essential.
• Understanding the role of a midwife within a multidisciplinary context.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of physiological CTG interpretation.
• Provide daily clinical teaching to midwifery staff.
• Collect and share data related to CTG incidents.

Skills

Excellent clinical skills

Strong teaching ability

Effective communication

Leadership skills

Education

Registered Midwife

Evidence of relevant clinical updating

Job description

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced and motivated midwife to join our maternity team as a Fetal Monitoring Specialist Midwife at St Thomas’ Hospital, one of the largest and busiest maternity services in London. This is an exciting opportunity to lead our transition to physiological CTG interpretation, supporting safe intrapartum care and enhancing education across midwifery and obstetric teams.

The post-holder will work clinically on the Hospital Birth Centre, providing real-time fetal monitoring teaching, assessing staff competency, and supporting the implementation of updated guidelines and training packages. You will work closely with the Clinical Governance Lead Midwife, HBC Matron, HBC Obstetric Lead and Practice Development Midwives to drive high-quality, evidence-based practice.

This role requires excellent clinical skills, strong teaching ability, effective communication and the confidence to support, influence and challenge colleagues when needed. You will also participate in audit, guideline development and Epic / MOXOS implementations.

If you are passionate about improving intrapartum fetal surveillance, supporting staff learning, and contributing to safe maternity care, we would love to hear from you.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me :

Closing Date : Midnight 4th January 2026

Interview Date : 16th January 2026

Main duties of the job

• Lead the implementation of physiological CTG interpretation across the service.
• Provide daily clinical teaching and support to midwifery and obstetric staff on the Hospital Birth Centre.
• Deliver and evaluate formal CTG training, assess competence, and develop individual learning packages.
• Contribute to the development and review of CTG guidelines, policies, and educational materials.
• Promote safe, high-quality, woman-centred intrapartum care, ensuring clear communication with women and families.
• Support the use and optimisation of the centralised CTG monitoring system.
• Collect, analyse and share data relating to CTG incidents, training outcomes and service improvements.
• Work collaboratively with senior midwifery, obstetric, and governance teams to strengthen intrapartum safety.
• Participate in quality improvement, audit, and risk management activities.
• Act as a visible clinical leader, role-modelling best practice, supporting staff, and facilitating a positive learning culture.
• Contribute to service development, performance standards and other implementations.

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with along history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic midwife to join our maternity service as a Fetal Monitoring Specialist Midwife. St Thomas’ Hospital hosts one of the largest single-site maternity units in London, with over 6,800 births per year, a busy Hospital Birth Centre, Midwifery-Led Unit, Obstetric HDU and multidisciplinary teams working closely across all areas.

About the role

This specialist post is central to our ongoing work introducing and embedding physiological CTG interpretation across the service. You will :

• Provide real-time clinical fetal monitoring teaching on the Hospital Birth Centre
• Support midwives, obstetric trainees and consultants with fetal monitoring education
• Contribute to the development and implementation of updated CTG guidelines
• Deliver structured teaching sessions and tailored 1 : 1 support
• Assess, document and support staff competence
• Contribute to audit, data collection and safety improvement work
• Promote safe escalation, improved communication and a positive learning culture

About you

You will be an experienced intrapartum midwife with excellent CTG knowledge, strong leadership skills, and confidence teaching across multidisciplinary teams. You must be able to work autonomously, challenge practice appropriately, and model the Trust’s values of being Caring, Ambitious and Inclusive.

Why join us?

You will join a supportive, collaborative team passionate about improving fetal surveillance, intrapartum safety and staff development. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to service-wide change and make a meaningful impact on maternity care.

Person specification

Education

• Registered Midwife
• Evidence of relevant clinical updating

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of management qualification
• Relevant MSc

Skills

Essential criteria

• Can demonstrate understanding of managing a midwifery service and facilitating choice for women
• Can demonstrate the ability to act as a specialist adviser to professional groups
• Able to demonstrate effective working relationship with members of the multidisciplinary team
• Can demonstrate clear understanding of the role as a line manager
• Able to acknowledge the importance of evaluation of care provided and how to regularly monitor activities in the team
• Understands the role of the Fetal midwife role within the wider midwifery context

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of research and audit
• Evidence of service redesign

Experience

Essential criteria

• Post registration experience in all areas of midwifery, particularly Fetal medicine and bereavement
• Previous experience in delivering bad news
• Can Demonstrate Understanding and ability to audit activities

Desirable criteria

• Management Experience
• Counselling Course
• Previous Band 7 Experience

Values and behaviour

Essential criteria

• Personal statement reflects the trust values

Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity / paternity, or marital / civil partnership.