Job summary
Part Time 15 hours per week, permanent role.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife and clinically credible midwife to join the Qualityand Safety Team in the role as Specialist Midwife for Fetal Monitoring and Surveillance.
Applications are invited from existing Band 6 or above Midwives employed by Mersey & West LancashireTeaching Hospitals NHS Trust for the above post.
Applicants must have substantial post qualification experience as a Midwife.
The role will include supporting staff to enhance their fetal monitoring skills; training; working with the senior teamto develop a robust safety culture and acting as a role model demonstrating clinical leadership and midwiferyexpertise.
The post holder will work closely with the Governance Midwives to provide constructive and positive feedback ona regular basis; identifying and disseminating learning from good outcomes.
Contribute and participate in the senior midwifery bleep rota Monday-Friday between the hours of 7am-9pm(early or late shift, occasional bank holidays).
An Enhanced DBS with barred lists for both Adults & Children is required for this post
Interview date: 7th July 2025
Main duties of the job
- Act as an advocate for women and their families and make appropriate referral where necessary.
- Promote normality whilst providing antenatal, and intrapartum care, which is reflective of research-based evidence in an appropriate setting.
- Liaise with other appropriate multidisciplinary and organisations for effective collaborative care as appropriate.
- Promote and lead on the introduction of any new initiatives relating to fetal monitoring to ensure staff areassessing fetal wellbeing in the context of the women's individual risk assessment inclusive of herhealth, pregnancy, gestation and stage of labour.
- Develop midwives competence in undertaking intermittent auscultation of the fetal heart in low risk women as per NICE guidelines.
- Support staff in enhancing their skills in reducing risk within clinical practice.
- Provide midwifery expertise, ensuring all staff both midwifery and medical are supported in their practice, including pre-registration and doctors in training.
- Communicate sensitive and complex information effectively and support the care pathway.
- Identify and offer appropriate services to women and babies who are high risk.
- Attend Divisional meetings and provide a summary report on clinical issues.
- Participate in ongoing work into the Stillbirth audit, working collaboratively with the audit leads within maternity to present the audit findings.
- Participate and undertake in the development of maternity guidelines.
About us
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To lead on the implementation, of the Saving Babies Lives v2 improving standards of fetal heart monitoring, interpretation, escalation, and appropriate management of care, reporting to the Quality and Safety Matron.
- To support and work with teams across Maternity to develop a programme to facilitate the implementation of clinically based teaching to support birth outcomes.
- To develop staff awareness in recognising pathophysiological factors that could contribute to the misinterpretation of the fetal heart pattern. This will be relevant when using both intermittent auscultation plotted on a partogram and electronic monitoring using a cardiotocograph (CTG).
- To develop and expand midwives competence in undertaking intermittent fetal heart auscultation when caring for low risk women. Ensure all staff can intelligently auscultate the fetal heart reflective in the documentation using either a pinnard or handheld Doppler sonicaid.
- To support staff in enhancing their fetal monitoring skills aiming to work towards reducing, identifying and escalation risk within clinical practise.
- To work with our senior midwifery team in the development of a safety culture, in partnership with the Quality and Safety Matron, the education team, the clinical midwifery managers, community matron, obstetricians and across the other providers within the CM LMS and develop creative new ways of learning.
- Provide on a regular basis both constructive and positive feedback and identify and disseminate learning from good outcomes.
- To work in collaboration with, and support the delivery suite co-ordinators, the senior midwives on the antenatal wards, community, and MLU, and obstetricians, to ensure safe birth outcomes.
- Act as a role model demonstrating clinical leadership and midwifery expertise.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To lead on the implementation, of the Saving Babies Lives v2 improving standards of fetal heart monitoring, interpretation, escalation, and appropriate management of care, reporting to the Quality and Safety Matron.
- To support and work with teams across Maternity to develop a programme to facilitate the implementation of clinically based teaching to support birth outcomes.
- To develop staff awareness in recognising pathophysiological factors that could contribute to the misinterpretation of the fetal heart pattern. This will be relevant when using both intermittent auscultation plotted on a partogram and electronic monitoring using a cardiotocograph (CTG).
- To develop and expand midwives competence in undertaking intermittent fetal heart auscultation when caring for low risk women. Ensure all staff can intelligently auscultate the fetal heart reflective in the documentation using either a pinnard or handheld Doppler sonicaid.
- To support staff in enhancing their fetal monitoring skills aiming to work towards reducing, identifying and escalation risk within clinical practise.
- To work with our senior midwifery team in the development of a safety culture, in partnership with the Quality and Safety Matron, the education team, the clinical midwifery managers, community matron, obstetricians and across the other providers within the CM LMS and develop creative new ways of learning.
- Provide on a regular basis both constructive and positive feedback and identify and disseminate learning from good outcomes.
- To work in collaboration with, and support the delivery suite co-ordinators, the senior midwives on the antenatal wards, community, and MLU, and obstetricians, to ensure safe birth outcomes.
- Act as a role model demonstrating clinical leadership and midwifery expertise.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife, with current NMC
- Evidence of continued professional development post registration
Desirable
- Masters in Midwifery
- Training in project or financial management
Knowledge
Essential
- An understanding of the key issues and challenges in Saving Babies lives V2.
- Experience of managing risks and reporting
- Experience of working with patients to co-produce and re design pathways of care
Desirable
- Experience of business planning processes.
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at senior management team level.
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Understanding of working as part of a complex system and to negotiate change with diplomacy
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife, with current NMC
- Evidence of continued professional development post registration
Desirable
- Masters in Midwifery
- Training in project or financial management
Knowledge
Essential
- An understanding of the key issues and challenges in Saving Babies lives V2.
- Experience of managing risks and reporting
- Experience of working with patients to co-produce and re design pathways of care
Desirable
- Experience of business planning processes.
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at senior management team level.
- Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Understanding of working as part of a complex system and to negotiate change with diplomacy
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
