Fetal Surveillance Midwife | Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 16 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 16 July 2025 |
| Location: | Prescot, L35 5DR |
| Company: | St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7245710/409-7245710 |
Summary
Part Time 15 hours per week, permanent role.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife and clinically credible midwife to join the Quality and Safety Team in the role as Specialist Midwife for Fetal Monitoring and Surveillance.
Applications are invited from existing Band 6 or above Midwives employed by Mersey & West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust for the above post.
Applicants must have substantial post qualification experience as a Midwife.
The role will include supporting staff to enhance their fetal monitoring skills; training; working with the senior team to develop a robust safety culture and acting as a role model demonstrating clinical leadership and midwifery expertise.
The post holder will work closely with the Governance Midwives to provide constructive and positive feedback on a regular basis; identifying and disseminating learning from good outcomes.
Contribute and participate in the senior midwifery bleep rota Monday-Friday between the hours of 7am-9pm (early or late shift, occasional bank holidays).
An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both Adults & Children is required for this post
Interview date: 7th July 2025
• Act as an advocate for women and their families and make appropriate referral where necessary.
• Promote normality whilst providing antenatal, and intrapartum care, which is reflective of research-based evidence in an appropriate setting.
• Liaise with other appropriate multidisciplinary and organisations for effective collaborative care as appropriate.
• Promote and lead on the introduction of any new initiatives relating to fetal monitoring to ensure staff are assessing fetal wellbeing in the context of the women’s individual risk assessment inclusive of her health, pregnancy, gestation and stage of labour.
• Develop midwives competence in undertaking intermittent auscultation of the fetal heart in low risk women as per NICE guidelines.
• Support staff in enhancing their skills in reducing risk within clinical practice.
• Provide midwifery expertise, ensuring all staff both midwifery and medical are supported in their practice, including pre-registration and doctors in training.
• Communicate sensitive and complex information effectively and support the care pathway.
• Identify and offer appropriate services to women and babies who are high risk.
• Attend Divisional meetings and provide a summary report on clinical issues.
• Participate in ongoing work into the Stillbirth audit, working collaboratively with the audit leads within maternity to present the audit findings.
• Participate and undertake in the development of maternity guidelines.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
• To lead on the implementation, of the ‘Saving Babies Lives v2’ improving standards of fetal heart monitoring, interpretation, escalation, and appropriate management of care, reporting to the Quality and Safety Matron.
• To support and work with teams across Maternity to develop a programme to facilitate the implementation of clinically based teaching to support birth outcomes.
• To develop staff awareness in recognising pathophysiological factors that could contribute to the misinterpretation of the fetal heart pattern. This will be relevant when using both intermittent auscultation plotted on a partogram and electronic monitoring using a cardiotocograph (CTG).
• To develop and expand midwives competence in undertaking intermittent fetal heart auscultation when caring for low risk women. Ensure all staff can intelligently auscultate the fetal heart reflective in the documentation using either a pinnard or handheld Doppler sonicaid.
• To support staff in enhancing their fetal monitoring skills aiming to work towards reducing, identifying and escalation risk within clinical practise.
• To work with our senior midwifery team in the development of a safety culture, in partnership with the Quality and Safety Matron, the education team, the clinical midwifery managers, community matron, obstetricians and across the other providers within the CM LMS and develop creative new ways of learning.
• Provide on a regular basis both constructive and positive feedback and identify and disseminate learning from good outcomes.
• To work in collaboration with, and support the delivery suite co-ordinators, the senior midwives on the antenatal wards, community, and MLU, and obstetricians, to ensure safe birth outcomes.
• Act as a role model demonstrating clinical leadership and midwifery expertise.
This advert closes on Thursday 26 Jun 2025
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