Job Title: Fetal Monitoring Specialist Midwife

Hours per week: Part time - 22.5 hours per week

Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent

Salary: �43,742-�50,056 per annum

Please note if you commence in post prior to October 2024, you will be paid in line with 2023/2024 agenda for change pay scales.

Closing Date: 23rd September 2024

Interview Date: 9th October 2024

This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

#JoinTeamEliot

This post may close early due to high numbers of applicationsso you are advised to apply promptly.

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

#JoinTeamEliot

Main duties of the job

Act as a clinical role model for effective clinical leadership enabling and facilitating others to take forward initiatives around fetal monitoring.

Work collaboratively with other professional groups to maximise development opportunities and inter - professional learning opportunities

Maximise opportunities to share good practices and innovations with colleagues locally and nationally

Contribute to the development of a learning organisation, alerting the appropriate parties to resource issues which may affect this

Identify own training and professional development needs to maintain clinical credibility

Influence and nurture positive attitudes and behaviours within the teams and wider multidisciplinary team

About us

Here at George Eliot our vision to ' excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Ensure that all midwives and obstetricians providing antenatal care whether on Drayton Ward.

Antenatal Clinic, Delivery Suite, triage, Maternity Assessment Unit and Community undertake the competency test in assessing fetal wellbeing.

Provide teaching and support for staff who need to repeat the competency test.

Lead weekly CTG workshops, maintaining attendance registers to ensure compliance for midwives and medical staff. Disseminate learning which emerges from workshops.

Take a lead role with the Delivery Suite Obstetric Consultant in developing an audit form for reviewing (on a daily basis) all emergency births i.e.. instrumental and caesarean sections in the previous 24hours to include review of CTGs. Use findings of such cases for reflective practice sessions.

Please note that this list is not exhaustive, full details are in the attached job description.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Relevant experience as Band 6/band7
• Audit and risk management experience.
• Previous experience in managing/leading change in practice
• Proficient and broad understanding of CTG interpretation and multidisciplinary training and education.

Desirable

• Previous Experience in report writing.

Qualification and Professional training

Essential

• Registered Midwife - BSc or Degree in Midwifery.
• ENB 997 or equivalent/mentorship qualification evidence of continuing professional development.
• Fetal monitoring masterclass attendance (physiological CTG interpretation)

Desirable

• Masters level study or willing to work towards

Skills and abilities

Essential

• Proven Leadership skills
• Effective communication skills both verbal and written
• Recent labour ward experience
• Able to manage conflict
• Able to prioritise workload and delegate

Desirable

• Leadership course (accredited or nationally recognised)

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Team builder and team player
• Reliable/approachable
• Confident/assertive

Employer details

Employer name

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Address

George Eliot Hospital

College Street

Nuneaton

CV107DJ

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

230-32936735-SURG-WCS-A