Job summary
- Main area
- Women's & Children's Care Group - Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 344-5830WCY-B
- Employer
- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital
- Town
- Margate, Kent
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Fetal Monitoring Midwife
Band 7
Job overview
Thank you for considering East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust as your choice of employer. The Trust is in an area that has great transport access to London & the continent but is also set in beautiful countryside with easy access to many great Kentish beaches and towns.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Midwife with strong clinical leadership and facilitation skills, who 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 and safety action 8 of CNST.
You will be joining a well-established team dedicated to the ongoing promotion of women centred personalised care in line with Better Births.
If you feel you have these qualities and want to join our teams at a very exciting time we look forward to hearing from you.
Main duties of the job
The post holder 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 role will support our physiological approach to fetal monitoring applied to intelligent intermittent auscultation and continuous electronic fetal monitoring.
The Fetal Monitoring Midwife will be a member of our Maternity Faculty for Multiprofessional Education. They will be mentored by a consultant obstetrician and midwife with advanced expert skills in fetal monitoring and work in partnership with the Labour Suite Lead Midwives and Consultants in ensuring that care provided to mother’s and babies is both safe and effective.
Working for our organisation
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five
hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and abo
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in ‘Documents to download’.
If you have further queries please don’t hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.
Person specification
Qualifications and training
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- SSA/Mentorship sign off
Desirable criteria
- Masters
Clinical skills and experience
Essential criteria
- Midwifery care with a minimum of three years at band 6
- All round Midwifery clinical experience / can demonstrate credible midwifery knowledge
- Excellent presentation skills
- Excellent IT skills
- Ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external partners
- Experience of fetal physiology
- Intelligent Intermittent Auscultation; use of twin fetal monitoring
- Up to date knowledge base relating to midwifery clinical evidence based practice
- Baseline knowledge of issues affecting the service, Trust and wider NHS
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of further fetal monitoring studies
- Understanding of implications of CNST
Personal/professional attributes
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills and ability to be responsive to highly emotive conversations.
- Flexible, highly motivated and supportive of others.
- Ability to develop excellent working relationships with all staff.
- Strong organisational and planning skills.
- Willing to develop new skills including completing appropriate training as required.
- Willingness to share knowledge and skills to contribute to the professional development of others.
- Resilient and able to maintain personal effectiveness and work well under pressure
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Innovative, self- motivated, enthusiastic.
- Adaptable in managing workloads, requiring an immediate response.
- Manage own wellbeing and wellbeing of the team to support high levels of personal and team resilience.
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rebecca DuCane
- Job title
- Matron for Education and Quality
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07974584244
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