Lead Midwife for Preterm Birth

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Frimley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated midwife to lead the development of services aimed at preventing preterm birth. This role involves collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to implement evidence-based care pathways and improve outcomes in maternity care. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in managing care for at-risk individuals, ensuring effective communication and continuity of care. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to excellence and innovation in healthcare, where your contributions will have a meaningful impact on maternal and neonatal outcomes.

Benefits

Flexible Working Hours

Professional Development Opportunities

Inclusive Work Environment

Health and Wellbeing Programs

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with significant post-registration experience.
• Experience in guideline development and implementation is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate care for individuals at risk of preterm birth.
• Lead quality improvement initiatives and clinical audit projects.

Skills

Organizational Skills

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Team Collaboration

Education

Registered Midwife on NMC Register

Qualification for Cervical Length Measurement

Job description

Job Overview

An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated midwife to take on the role of Lead Midwife for Preterm Birth at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. This is a unique opportunity for a registered midwife with a passion for improving outcomes in maternity care to lead on the development and coordination of services aimed at the prevention and management of preterm birth.

The successful candidate will work across both of our maternity sites—Frimley Park Hospital in Camberley and Wexham Park Hospital in Slough—supporting the implementation of evidence-based care pathways for women identified as being at increased risk of preterm labour and birth. The role will involve close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, including obstetricians, antenatal screening, neonatal teams, and external partners, to ensure timely, effective, and woman-centred care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will play a key role in the management and coordination of care for individuals at risk of preterm birth. This includes triaging referrals efficiently and appropriately, ensuring timely access to specialist services. They will act as a central point of contact, liaising with patients, families, and multidisciplinary teams to facilitate effective communication and continuity of care. The post holder will lead and support quality improvement initiatives and clinical audit projects aimed at enhancing preterm birth prevention and outcomes. They will collect and analyse relevant data, contribute to service development, and share findings to inform best practice.

Collaboration is essential in this role, and the post holder will work closely with the Antenatal and Newborn Screening teams across both hospital sites. They will support the integration of screening results into the care pathway, ensuring that patients identified as high-risk receive appropriate follow-up. The post holder will also contribute to staff education and training, promote evidence-based care, and help implement national and local guidelines. Strong organisational, communication, and analytical skills are vital to succeed in this role, along with a commitment to improving maternal and neonatal outcomes.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Midwife currently on NMC register
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Qualification for cervical length measurement by ultrasound
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant post registration experience (experience as Band 6)
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience in guideline development and implementation
• Experience in research and audit
• Experience of implementing and influencing clinical governance processes
  
  

Training

Essential criteria

• Evidence of CPD
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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