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Job overview

Are you looking to work in an award winning, well-supported, friendly, dynamic, culturally astute and inclusive environment that puts women / birthing people at the centre of a high standard of care where the latest CQC report that rates us again as good, maintaining our good rating since 2017 and has now awarded us outstanding for leadership?

Do you have experience in fetal wellbeing?

If so, an exciting opportunity has risen for a midwife on the Queen Elizabeth

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust launched the ‘Sign Up To Safety’ (SUTS) project in September 2015 which aims to reduce term admissions to the neonatal unit, reduce numbers of babies born with hypoxia and low apgars, and brain injury (i.e. reduction in HIE cases), and implement a pathophysiological approach to monitoring fetal wellbeing in the intrapartum period.

To date, the project team members have authored Antepartum and Fetal Monitoring in Labour Guidelines. They have developed and implemented a fetal monitoring competency assessment tool which all staff undertake yearly; established and continue to deliver a training package for midwives and doctors.  They provide on the floor training and support for staff with regards to fetal monitoring, and present learning from past cases at workshops and multi-disciplinary meetings.

This post is not suitable for newly qualified midwives or international midwives who have not completed their OSCE.

Main duties of the job

As a Fetal Wellbeing Midwife, you will work clinically by supporting and teaching on the “shop-floor”, present past cases and lessons learnt from these at CTG workshops, collect data and review histories from admissions to the neonatal unit, teach and train staff in the pathophysiology of fetal surveillance, and support and manage staff that fail their competency assessment and those involved in clinical incidents. You will be in the heart of delivering objectives which are on the national agenda and you will also be helping produce the weekly “Tip of the Week” Newsletter

In addition you will also Raise the level of skill in using fetal stethoscopes and dopplers and ensure

staff can intelligently auscultate the fetal heart in labour at the midwifery led unit and at home, and increase confidence in staff on how to auscultate intermittently

You will act as a role model demonstrating clinical leadership and midwifery expertise. And encourage staff to work as part of a team

You will compliment the role of the Delivery Suite Coordinator in ensuring that care provided is safe and of a high standard and work with the intrapartum lead Consultants, birth centre leads, community leads, and the Consultant Midwives to develop a comprehensive training and competency testing package to give assurance that all staff responsible for intrapartum care are competent.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream