Practice Development Lead Midwife for Fetal Wellbeing
County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity exists for you to join County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust as our Specialist Midwife for Fetal Monitoring and Wellbeing.
This is an opportunity for an ambitious practitioner who is ready to progress in their career. This post will require an experienced and talented midwifery practitioner who will continue the strong clinical leadership and education of our midwifery and obstetric team in fetal monitoring and wellbeing. The postholder will work within the team, across the Family Health Care Group (including other Care Groups as appropriate) and with external stakeholders to help deliver cohesive, comprehensive and integrated services within maternity care.
You will need to be an inspiring, enthusiastic and knowledgeable teacher, as the Lead Midwife for fetal monitoring will coordinate and deliver on training provision to ensure that all staff providing antepartum and intrapartum care across County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Maternity Services are competent and skilled in fetal monitoring.
Main Duties of the Job
There will be a strong focus on workplace learning through supporting the multi-professional team to ensure they can accurately and confidently interpret fetal monitoring. This workplace-based learning would take place in all clinical settings.
You will be responsible for supporting the team in the achievement of excellent, safe, and efficient care through fetal monitoring and wellbeing knowledge. Your influence will have a positive impact on the quality of care provision within the maternity service.
The post holder will provide innovative professional leadership, advice, and guidance to midwifery staff and obstetric staff, ensuring the professional contributions of midwives is maximised in order to achieve the Trust's strategic goals whilst ensuring professional standards are maintained. The post holder will work with a high level of autonomy in order to support and influence the service including implementation of national initiatives and appropriate models of care around fetal monitoring and wellbeing.
Job Responsibilities
The role will involve working with the Senior Clinical team across the service, including practice development and patient safety and governance, to embed the knowledge and skills staff gain from our fetal monitoring training course and competency framework, into the workplace.
This culture of continuous learning, associated with continuous measurement for improvement, will provide assurance that all staff undertaking fetal monitoring are competent to provide safe care.
The role requires clinical expertise and facilitation skills, to enable the standards of risk assessment and fetal monitoring in line with elements 3 and 4 of the Saving Babies' Lives Care Bundle (SBLCBv3 July, 2023).
You will be working closely with the senior midwifery team and multidisciplinary team in taking forward and shaping the future of midwifery practice in the light of the local, national and professional agenda.
The main duties and responsibilities of the Lead Midwife for Fetal Monitoring Role include:
* To lead on improving the awareness of reduced fetal movements, in accordance with element 3 of the SBLCBv3 (July 2023).
* To lead on improving the standard of intrapartum risk assessment and fetal monitoring, in accordance with element 4 of the SBLCBv3 (July, 2023).
* To lead on incident reviews within the patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF), where CTG interpretation and decision making may have contributed to a poor outcome.
* To identify the development and training needs around fetal monitoring within designated clinical areas according to individual needs and service requirements.
* To facilitate an education programme aimed at equipping midwives, obstetricians and trainees to increase their knowledge and competence in identifying fetal well-being, potential fetal compromise, and actual fetal compromise in all clinical settings and improve clinical decision making.
* To engage in the regional development of physiological CTG interpretation; to take a lead role in the clinical teaching of this at Trust level.
* To develop staff's awareness in recognising factors that could contribute to misinterpretation of cardiotocography (CTG) and impaired clinical decision making.
* Ensure staff are holistically assessing fetal well-being in the context of the woman's health, pregnancy, gestation, and stage of labour.
* Develop midwives' competence and confidence in undertaking intelligent intermittent auscultation of the fetal heart in low-risk women as per the Trust and national guidance.
* Review and support with current training packages and educational resources.
* Be innovative in approach to teaching methods and learning experiences.
* Participate in curriculum development and joint professional development activities with other agencies to maximise learning opportunities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Professional/clinical knowledge acquired through midwifery training to degree/diploma level and preceptorship plus further study and training course at/or working toward Masters level equivalent.
* PP126/127 or equivalent.
* Registered Practice Assessor.
* Extensive experience at Band 6.
* Leadership Qualification.
* Education at Masters level.
* CTG Masterclass.
Experience
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
* Extended scope of practice skills.
* Counselling & appraisal skills.
* Time Management Skills.
* Practical skills required include: advanced level fetal monitoring interpretation.
* Must be able to demonstrate the English language proficiency level required for this post.
* Ability to communicate with staff at all levels.
* Ability to communicate with MDT and ability to work as a member of a team.
* High level of personal motivation.
* Must be flexible to meet the needs of the service.
* Leadership course/experience.
* Management course/experience.
Special Requirements
* Ability to travel independently across sites to fulfil the requirements of the post.
Statutory Registration
* UK Registered NMC Midwife with Current active PIN.
Special Skills & Knowledge
* Thorough understanding of contemporary midwifery issues.
* Evidence of service improvement.
* Evidence of introduction and maintaining effective clinical governance strategy.
* Knowledge of primary care.
* Evidence of innovation in practice.
* Leadership course/experience.
* Management course/experience.
* Training in quality improvement methodology.
* Knowledge of and contribution to the Clinical Governance Framework.
* Previous experience of complaints handling and risk management.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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