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·       The aim of this role is to ensure that all staff providing antepartum and intrapartum care across Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) Maternity Services are competent and skilled in fetal monitoring.

·       We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Midwife with strong clinical leadership and facilitation skills.

·       The post-holder will work autonomously as the lead midwife practitioner for Fetal Surveillance and 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.

·       The postholder 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 postholder will communicate sensitive and complex information relating to abnormal fetal surveillance findings to parents in labour who will frequently be in pain and highly anxious

·       The role will support embedding our physiological approach to fetal monitoring applied to intelligent intermittent auscultation and CTG monitoring.

·       The Fetal Surveillance Midwife will work closely with the consultant obstetrician with advanced expert skills in fetal monitoring and work in partnership with the Delivery Suite Lead Midwife and Consultant in ensuring that care provided to mothers and babies is both safe and effective.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

·                 Represent the learning and development team to liaise with the Risk Management    team to identify current trends in risk regarding fetal monitoring

·                 Identifying cases to generate learning - from shop floor with no harm

·                 Identifying cases to generate learning - from risk and governance and from term admissions to the neonatal unit from an intrapartum fetal monitoring perspective

·                 Improve the safety and experience of women and families by developing staff to provide the appropriate level of fetal monitoring related clinical knowledge, skills and competencies. This will include establishing or use   of existing systems to demonstrate practice development improvements, link training into risk assessment and share best practice.

·                 Facilitate the orientation of fetal monitoring guidelines and practice for new  members of staff.

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Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.

We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in West Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre. Fordcombe Hospital is near Tunbridge Wells and became part of the Trust in October 2024. It focusses on planned care and has two operating theatres, 28 inpatient and day care beds, diagnostic services including X-ray, MRI, CT and endoscopy, and a number of consultation and treatment rooms.

In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.

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