Fetal Monitoring Lead Midwife
| Posting date: | 11 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | £43,742.00 to £50,056.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £43742.00 - £50056.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 September 2024 |
| Location: | Darlington, DL3 6HX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9439-24-0945 |
Summary
The role will involve working with the Senior Clinical teams 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 responsibiliies 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 i.e o Low cord gases o APGAR <7 at 5 o ATAIN o EBC reportable o Extensive neonatal resuscitation o Failure to meet timing for operative delivery 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 staffs 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. Ensure staff can intelligently auscultate the fetal heart in labour and increase confidence in staff in auscultating the fetal heart intermittently through the introduction and use of a Fresh Ears process 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.