Fetal Medicine Midwife

Hampshire Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; United States; Hybrid; USD 53,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dynamic maternity education specialist to support fetal wellbeing monitoring across Basingstoke and Winchester sites, with potential home working on request. The post requires experience in fetal monitoring including physiological CTG interpretation and in teaching and coaching maternity staff.

The role continues the current training programme, implements Saving Babies Lives element 4, and provides monthly reports to the director of

Qualifications

• Experience in fetal monitoring including physiological CTG interpretation.
• Experience in teaching and coaching maternity staff across teams.
• Willingness to work across Basingstoke and Winchester sites with potential home working on request.

Responsibilities

• Raise fetal wellbeing monitoring profile across EFM and IA and support colleagues.
• Maintain visibility as fetal monitoring expert to embed Saving Babies Lives element 4.
• Improve practice of fetal monitoring and consolidate knowledge across teams.
• Coordinate actions and provide evidence for service improvement and standards compliance.
• Collaborate with Practice Development and Quality/Safety/Risk teams in maternity.
• Plan and deliver fetal monitoring teaching/learning agenda with the team.
• Attend weekly reviews with line manager and provide 3 monthly action plans.
• Provide monthly/quarterly performance reports to the Director of Midwifery.

Skills

Fetal monitoring

CTG interpretation

Teaching & coaching

Cross-site working

Flexible working

Job description

We are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic professional to join our maternity education team. The role involves cross site working across both Basingstoke and Winchester acute sites and can include an element of home working upon request. The successful candidate should be experienced in both fetal monitoring, including physiological CTG interpretation, and teaching and coaching all members of maternity and obstetric staff. The role includes continuing our current training programme and implementing all aspects of element 4 of Saving Babies Lives element 4. We can offer a number of development opportunities for an existing band 7 looking for a change or an experienced band 6 midwife. Happy to talk flexible working.

• Raise the profile of fetal wellbeing monitoring both in Electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) and Intermittent auscultation (IA) and ensure that colleagues engaged in fetal wellbeing monitoring are adequately supported.
• Maintain visibility cross site as the fetal monitoring expert to embed element 4 of Saving Babies Lives care bundle (version 3)
• Be responsible for improving the practice of monitoring fetal wellbeing and consolidating existing knowledge of monitoring fetal wellbeing
• Interface with external units and agencies to learn about and keep abreast of developments in the field, and to track and introduce best practice and share the learning across the Trust and within SHIP.
• Be responsible for co-ordinating the implementation of actions and provision of evidence to support service improvement and compliance with organisational standards
• Work collaboratively with the Practice Development Team and the Quality, Safety and Risk Management Team within the Maternity Service.
• Support the Practice Development Team in planning and delivery of the fetal monitoring teaching and learning agenda.
• Attend weekly review meetings with line manager and provide 3 monthly projective action plans
• Provide monthly and quarterly performance reports to the Director of midwifery in the desired time frame and quarterly updates for governance meetings
  

  Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer. The trust employs over 8,600 staff and has a turnover of over £450 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.