Job overview

The Fetal Medicine Midwife (postholder) will provide specialist care within the Fetal Medicine team. The Fetal Medicine Midwife would be a valuable member of that team and to the safe, effective, and efficient running of the Fetal Medicine service in the provision of excellent maternity care for women/birthing people and families accessing our services. The role requires effective team working across several professional groups and departments to offer safe, personal and effective care. The postholder must have the resilience to cope with the personal accountability alongside many and varied demands of this role, such as providing specialist support and counselling to women who are considering antenatal screening and diagnostic testing and support them following results.

Main duties of the job

1. Main duties and Responsibilities:

•  To ensure the safe, efficient, and effective provision of Fetal Medicine services in line with the strategic vision, Trust policies and procedures.
•  Support the daily delivery of services relating to fetal medicine and the component parts of the national pregnancy screening programme for Down’s Syndrome and Spina Bifida, where results may indicate high risk.
• Provide a sensitive, systematic approach to the management and counselling of women/birthing people concerning testing, high risk results or diagnosis of abnormality.
•   Develop a close working relationship with the screening team to develop and maintain a working knowledge of antenatal and new-born screening policy and guidance.
•  Liaise between maternity teams, neonatology teams, ward areas, laboratory services, and tertiary fetal medicine providers to assist in the planning of high risk pregnancies and care of babies identified during the antenatal period with anomalies and to ensure a smooth-running seamless service.
• Be proficient in the use of IT systems and Databases to effectively co-ordinate, document and monitor the Fetal Medicine patient journey.
• Develop and maintain a close working relationship with the Lead fetal medicine midwife, sonography service, and the maternity bereavement midwife.
•  Act as an innovative and enthusiastic role model, promoting an open, honest, and transparent culture.

Working for our organisation

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust’s services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.

The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this – particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities,
community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitals
provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.