Fetal Monitoring Midwife

Job overview

Thank you for considering East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust as your choice of employer. The Trust is in an area that has great transport access to London & the continent but is also set in beautiful countryside with easy access to many great Kentish beaches and towns.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Midwife with strong clinical leadership and facilitation skills, who will lead on improving the standard of risk assessment and fetal monitoring in line with element 4 of the Saving Babies' Lives 2 Care Bundle and safety action 8 of CNST.

You will be joining a well-established team dedicated to the ongoing promotion of women centred personalised care in line with Better Births.

If you feel you have these qualities and want to join our teams at a very exciting time we look forward to hearing from you.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a highly visible champion for safe and effective fetal heart rate interpretation through demonstration of expert clinical knowledge and practice. Education and training of maternity staff is a fundamental element of this post. The role will support our physiological approach to fetal monitoring applied to intelligent intermittent auscultation and continuous electronic fetal monitoring.

The Fetal Monitoring Midwife will be a member of our Maternity Faculty for Multiprofessional Education. They will be mentored by a consultant obstetrician and midwife with advanced expert skills in fetal monitoring and work in partnership with the Labour Suite Lead Midwives and Consultants in ensuring that care provided to mother’s and babies is both safe and effective.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in ‘Documents to download’.

If you have further queries please don’t hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.