# Fetal Wellbeing Lead Midwife > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/fetal-wellbeing-lead-midwife/99541215-7a33-49f1-b6e6-4528a112d285 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/fetal-wellbeing-lead-midwife/99541215-7a33-49f1-b6e6-4528a112d285.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Middlesbrough - **Region:** North East and Yorkshire - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Midwife - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term 12 months) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-11T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-28T11:30:51.859Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cleveland/Middlesbrough/South_Tees_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Women_Children_Services/Women_Children_Services-v7951631 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7951631?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.southtees.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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 ## Responsibilities Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Leadership and management skills - Engaged in the local Quality Improvement process with proven skills, tools and experience - Confident and experienced in challenging existing systems/protocols. - Evidence of continued professional development - Evidence of learning and development in line with the NMC revalidation requirements ### Knowledge & Skills **Essential** - Sound knowledge of the professional agenda in relation to the fetal monitoring and fetal monitoring training. - Understanding of Saving babies lives care bundle V3. - Knowledge of risk management and clinical governance - Evidence of continued professional development - Evidence of excellent record keeping. - Recognise and value the contribution of others within the multidisciplinary team and the importance of communication. ### Qualifications & Training **Essential** - Registered Midwife - Teaching Qualification or experience mentoring students ## Documents - [friarage hospital map (pdf, 531.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2096) - [james cook campus map (pdf, 168.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2094) - [guidance notes for applicants (pdf, 113.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2093) - [clinical service units directorate (pdf, 116.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2423) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10330939) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.