An exciting opportunity for a registered midwife to work with the Maternity team to be our joint-lead Band 7 Midwife for Fetal Medicine and Antenatal/Newborn screening and provide the midwifery leadership of the screening teams. It is a part-time role 22.5 hrs/week.
They will work in partnership to ensure that the Trust provides an exemplary screening and fetal medicine service ensuring that the National screening KPI, working closely with the MDT.
They will provide expert knowledge and teaching to the midwifery team on all aspects of screening and fetal medicine.
They will provide direct line management of the teams, be the point of contact and support for women and birthing people with abnormal screening results. They will provide counselling and guidance to help the people under their care make informed decisions and assist in the formulation of individualised, specialist care plans.
Main duties of the job
* Providing midwifery support in the combined clinic, as part of the MDT including Fetal medicine doctor, neonatal consultant.
* Providing midwifery support at planned appointments with women attending fetal medicine appointments with known fetal abnormalities.
* Direct line management of Newborn hearing, Antenatal screening and fetal medicine team.
* Ensuring adequate staffing so that a member of the screening/fetal medicine midwifery team is available for immediate referrals from the fetal medicine scan clinics for women with new diagnoses, providing individual support and advice to the women and their families, and making any referrals to other internal/external agencies that are required to enhance care.
* Reporting notifiable abnormalities to the appropriate bodies in a prompt time-frame.
* Coordinating plans of care where women are receiving care from multiple specialties/agencies and ensuring all plans for woman/neonate are clearly documented and communicated with the wider maternity team as appropriate.
* Ensuring all guidelines/policies related to this service are maintained in line with latest Local and National recommendations.
* Ensuring the service is in line with KPI expectations.
* Collating and cleansing data, creating and ensuring completion of effective action plans, creating reports for local and national reporting.
* Presenting reports and chairing quarterly meetings with NHS England and associated parties.
About us
Our Maternity Vision is 'Working together with women, birthing people and families to offer compassionate, supportive care and informed choice striving for equity and excellence in our maternity service.'
The Maternity unit delivers just under 5000 babies a year. We provide care for a diverse population across West Berkshire. Part of our maternity strategy is equity in access and outcomes tackling the multiple dimensions that affect local healthcare inequalities.
The unit comprises of a delivery suite, midwife-led birth centre, postnatal and antenatal wards, outpatients and Day Assessment Unit. We have a very successful home birth service, specialist teams to support vulnerable women and continuity of care teams.
We have developed a 'seeking sanctuary' service which is a multidisciplinary approach to providing care to pregnant women seeking sanctuary in the UK and their families. This service was presented as good practice in the NHS three-year delivery plan.
We have an established joint-led services for rainbow, bereavement, diabetes, fetal medicine, and pre-term birth.
We are strongly committed to developing our services and ensuring that those who work with us are given support and development opportunities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The job description is included which provides more details for the role and specification.
Main Duties
* To act as a midwifery specialist in the field of fetal medicine and provide clinical midwifery support in the antenatal and newborn screening programmes. Assist and advise other healthcare professionals in the care of women and children undergoing testing and diagnosis.
* To actively engage and communicate with families, helping them to understand complex results of investigations and diagnosis using appropriate terminology and providing relevant written information.
* Line management of Newborn/Antenatal Screening and Fetal medicine teams.
Person Specification
EDUCATION
Essential
* Registered Midwife
* Educated Mentorship qualification/ENB997/or equivalent to a minimum of 1st degree level/able to demonstrate evidence that is working at degree level/commenced degree pathway.
Desirable
* Leadership/management qualification.
Experience
Essential
* Recent experience working as a Midwife with at least 2 years experience.
* Significant experience of working within screening/Fetal medicine.
* Demonstrates experience in service development and implementation.
Desirable
* Previous experience of clinical audit/report preparation.
* Previous management/leadership experience.
Skills
Essential
* Enthusiasm for role.
* Ability to work flexible hours to meet service needs.
* Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
Desirable
* Advanced IT skills to extract, compile and analyse complex data.
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Ward - Maternity - Midwives
Craven Road
Reading
RG1 5AN
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