Fetal Monitoring & Patient Safety for Intrapartum Care Lead Midwife
| Posting date: | 25 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 July 2025 |
| Location: | Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 9RW |
| Company: | Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7286272/245-NAM7FMID-06-25 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Fetal Monitoring & Patient Safety for Intrapartum Care Lead Midwife
This is an great opportunity for an experienced, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic NMC registered midwife to join our team in this specialist role. At an exciting time when we are continuing to expand and develop our staffing and services, we are seeking a midwife who has significant experience and understanding of fetal monitoring and intrapartum care to fulfil this role.
It is vital you can demonstrate an in-depth understanding of intrapartum care and fetal monitoring, with the ability to collect, analyse and present data, support staff, and lead education and training programmes. For this role you should have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and a flexible approach and commitment to work.
Our most recent CQC inspection recognised our maternity unit to have an open culture and staff were proud to work for our service, felt respected, supported and valued. Improvement is required and as we strive for excellence and continuous development, we are seeking a dedicated and experienced midwife to support in this journey.
The post holder is responsible for improving patient safety by promoting safe practice and robust patient safety systems with a particular focus on intrapartum care and intrapartum fetal monitoring to include CTG and intelligent intermittent auscultation.
You will have a key leadership role and will provide specialist skills and knowledge to support the division’s quality and safety agenda. In this role you will support the Lead Midwife for Intrapartum Care on Labour Ward and the Acorn Birth Centre and work collaboratively with the triage manager in establishing and maintaining BSOTS,to enhance and develop high standards of care through education, patient safety incident response framework, risk management and continuous quality improvement.
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focuses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.
Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and use your application to demonstrate how you meet these requirements.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found on this job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles, so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted for interview please make sure you apply as soon as possible.A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
This advert closes on Wednesday 9 Jul 2025
Fetal Monitoring & Patient Safety for Intrapartum Care Lead Midwife
This is an great opportunity for an experienced, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic NMC registered midwife to join our team in this specialist role. At an exciting time when we are continuing to expand and develop our staffing and services, we are seeking a midwife who has significant experience and understanding of fetal monitoring and intrapartum care to fulfil this role.
It is vital you can demonstrate an in-depth understanding of intrapartum care and fetal monitoring, with the ability to collect, analyse and present data, support staff, and lead education and training programmes. For this role you should have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and a flexible approach and commitment to work.
Our most recent CQC inspection recognised our maternity unit to have an open culture and staff were proud to work for our service, felt respected, supported and valued. Improvement is required and as we strive for excellence and continuous development, we are seeking a dedicated and experienced midwife to support in this journey.
The post holder is responsible for improving patient safety by promoting safe practice and robust patient safety systems with a particular focus on intrapartum care and intrapartum fetal monitoring to include CTG and intelligent intermittent auscultation.
You will have a key leadership role and will provide specialist skills and knowledge to support the division’s quality and safety agenda. In this role you will support the Lead Midwife for Intrapartum Care on Labour Ward and the Acorn Birth Centre and work collaboratively with the triage manager in establishing and maintaining BSOTS,to enhance and develop high standards of care through education, patient safety incident response framework, risk management and continuous quality improvement.
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focuses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.
Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and use your application to demonstrate how you meet these requirements.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found on this job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles, so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted for interview please make sure you apply as soon as possible.A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
This advert closes on Wednesday 9 Jul 2025