Job overview

We have an exciting new opportunity for an experienced Midwife to take a step up into this fantastic role of Fetal Wellbeing & Surveillance Midwife.

The post holder will be an expert in the assessment, planning and implementation of all areas of midwifery care for women throughout the childbirth continuum. They will work closely with other health professionals aligned to midwifery to ensure continuity of care. They will be 

responsible for supporting midwifery staff, obstetricians and students within the practice environment, to be competent in CTG monitoring and fetal surveillance.

Main duties of the job

The Fetal Monitoring Lead will support staff working on the labour ward to provide high quality intrapartum risk assessments, fresh eyes and accurate CTG interpretation. The role should contribute to building and sustaining a safety culture on the labour ward with all staff committed to continuous improvement. 

Provide a high standard of midwifery care at all times, within a multi-disciplinary team to facilitate the development of required clinical skills to midwives.

Support and work closely within Maternity with the Lead Obstetrician for foetal wellbeing and the Inpatient Matron, Education Team and midwives in developing programmes of education for CTG interpretation to achieve better birth outcomes.

Create good learning opportunities and environments in the clinical practice environment and maintain communication networks with the wider multidisciplinary Team and other foetal wellbeing midwives.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.