Senior Midwife, Delivery Suite Coordinator Band 7

St George's University Hospitals; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Westminster is seeking an enthusiastic midwife to join its Delivery Suite team. The role involves coordinating care for women of varying risk levels, providing holistic support, and working within a dynamic, culturally diverse environment. This position offers opportunities for further training in fetal monitoring and a chance to be part of a well-established team dedicated to outstanding patient care.

Qualifications

• Experience caring for high and low risk patients in maternity settings.
• Knowledge of fetal monitoring including STAN monitoring.
• Ability to work in a dynamic team environment with diverse patients.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the Delivery Suite and care for women birthing in high and low risk scenarios.
• Provide holistic, woman-centred care to all patients.
• Support with training and development in fetal monitoring.

Skills

Experience in caring for high and low risk women

HDU and triage background

Fetal monitoring

Education

Midwifery qualification

Job description

• Our dedicated teams and specialist midwives for AN screening, Infant Feeding, NIPE, Bereavement, Governance, FGM, Maternal Medicine, Diabetes, FMU/DAU, Safeguarding and Perinatal Mental Health have a wealth of experience and are able support you to develop your knowledge in areas you feel passionate about. We offer internal opportunities for secondments in areas to support staff with their development.
• If you thrive in an energetic environment, which is rich in culture and diversity, do consider working at St George's to be the right step forward in your career.
• With us you will gain experience from working in a tertiary referral unit with opportunities for further training and experience.
• A vacancy has arisen for an enthusiastic, skilled midwife to co-ordinate our Delivery Suite. We are looking for a motivated midwife with experience caring for high and low risk women, ample HDU and triage background, and ideally acting up as labour ward coordinator. St George's delivery suite hosts a designated HDU area, triage and two obstetric theatres to meet the varied needs of our population. All our staff are trained in STAN fetal monitoring, and this method is successfully used on the delivery suite since 2002., We take pride in promoting midwifery by delivering holistic woman-centred/ birthing people centred care to our diverse community.
• The enthusiastic and dynamic midwifery and obstetric teams work closely together with an embedded MDT culture to meet the specific and individual needs of women who come from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds.
• We strive to give outstanding, safe and compassionate care throughout pregnancy and birth to all women/ birthing people, whether they chose to give birth at home, in our Birth Centre or on our Delivery Suite. We are working towards providing a continuity team model for all women so you will be joining us at an exciting time.
• Our outstanding maternity HDU cares for women/ birthing people who need more complex care and we offer training and support to all midwives interested in developing the skills to work here.
• We are very proud of our well established Fetal Monitoring team that deliver MDT training, twice weekly teaching and clinically support learning on shifts.
• You will gain a deeper understanding of fetal well-being, CTG and STAN monitoring that will expand your knowledge and help support a safe and healthy birth.

• You can develop your skills and practice across the entire maternity service and support women/ birthing people across the entire range of our services.

  St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in South London, is a teaching hospital and tertiary referral centre with our maternity unit providing care to over 5000 women/ birthing people yearly., St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

• After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.