# Lead Midwife for Fetal Medicine

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Weston General Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Midwife
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week (7.5hrs. 4 days per week, Monday-Friday.)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-18T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02T09:20:52.541Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Bristol/Bristol/Bristol_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Midwifery/Midwifery-v8305743
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8305743?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.uhbw.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Do you have experience in Fetal Medicine? Are you ready to progress your leadership and management skills?

This advert is for a part time (0.8WTE) Band 7 Lead Midwife for Fetal Medicine at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will be an experienced Midwife responsible for the delivery of Fetal Medicine services at St Michael's Hospital. Applicants will be existing Band 6/7 practising Midwives who will lead and work as members of the multidisciplinary team within the maternity service across Bristol and Weston. They will act as an expert resource and role model for the multi-disciplinary team, maternity service, division and trust.

### Main duties of the job

- Demonstrate highly technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including; administration of invasive tests and procedures.
- To have on-going responsibility for the clinical area, recognising changing priorities and implementing corrective actions to accommodate changing service needs, planning, implementing and evaluating the specialist care for antenatal clients. Along with ensuring adequate, safe staffing levels.
- Be visible, assertive, coordinating all aspects of patient care and staff management.
- To participate in the maternity Flow rota.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Significant post registration experience
- Experience of working within Fetal Medicine
- Experience in clinical procedures specific to Fetal Medicine Unit

**Desirable**

- Extended clinical midwifery skills

### Personal Qualities

**Essential**

- Excellent communication / Interpersonal skills
- Motivated and enthusiastic
- Sympathetic and supportive attitude
- Flexibility to meet the daily needs of the job
- Supportive
- Collaborative
- Respectful
- Innovative

### Experience - Desirable

**Desirable**

- Experience in operating laser and assisting with fetoscopic laser photocoagulation and other procedures required within FMU
- Ability to perform and interpret basic ultrasound assessment

### Qualifications and Training

**Essential**

- Registered Midwife
- Degree qualification or equivalent
- Teaching/Mentoring qualification and evidence of teaching skills
- Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation
- Child protection training

### Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

**Essential**

- Can build effective working relationships with staff at all levels across different teams in the hospital and across the region (including neonatal, gynaecology, fetal medicine, delivery suite, patient safety and psychology) to co-ordinate patient care
- Ability to work across a variety of digital platforms, and collate and analyse data for pregnancy outcomes
- Can work independently as an autonomous practitioner as well as part of the MDT and be organised in the practice environment.
- Be actively engaged in service development, commissioning, and provision of complex care pathways.
- Can demonstrate leadership / management Skills
- Ability to initiate change
- Ability to facilitate development in others

## Documents

- [dbs charges information (pdf, 71.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3005)
- [dbs charges information (pdf, 119.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2397)
- [uhbw staff benefits book (pdf, 12.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2131)
- [uhbw behaviours and values (pdf, 299.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2476)
- [fetal medicine lead midwife (pdf, 494.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10654789)
- [policy statement - ex offenders (pdf, 424.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=667)

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