Fetal Wellbeing Lead Midwife

Job overview

The aim of this role is to ensure that all staff providing antepartum and intrapartum care across South Tees Trust are competent and skilled in fetal monitoring.

There will be a strong focus on workplace learning through supporting the multi-professional team to ensure they can accurately and confidently interpret fetal monitoring. This workplace based learning would take place in all clinical settings - the midwifery led unit, community and the delivery suite settings for example.

The role will involve working with the maternity management team, obstetricians and clinical education lead for maternity to embed the knowledge and skills staff gain from our fetal monitoring training course and competency framework, into the workplace. The post holder will be required to facilitate mandatory training for all staff members. 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 will involve supporting the implementation of the Saving Babies Lives Bundle version 3 (SBLCB3) and requires clinical expertise and facilitation skills, to enable the standards of risk assessment and fetal monitoring in line with element 4 of the Saving Babies' Lives Care Bundle.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will lead and facilitate the departments approved programme aimed at equipping midwives to increase their knowledge and competence in both intermittent auscultation and cardiotocography training.
• Ensure that midwives and obstetricians are compliant in their yearly training and assessments of competency in fetal heart rate monitoring to demonstrate knowledge and competence in both the assessment of fetal wellbeing and identification of potential fetal compromise.
• Ensure that midwives are supported in their development of clinical decision making in cases such as actual fetal compromise in all clinical settings.
• Work in collaboration with the Matron and manager of labour ward, clinical education team, midwifery practice development team, labour ward coordinators, and obstetricians, to develop the departments comprehensive training and competency assessment package to give assurance that all staff responsible for fetal assessment and wellbeing are competent.
• Ensure that all midwives and obstetricians providing antenatal care whether in the antenatal ward, antenatal clinic, maternity day unit and or triage, undertake the competency test in assessing fetal wellbeing

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.