Job summary
- Main area
- Midwifery
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Secondment)
- Hours
- Full time
- Other
- Job ref
- 391-NMUH-7383693
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex University Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 inclusive HCAS pro rata, per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Fetal Surveillance Midwife
NHS AfC: Band 7
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
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Job overview
We are looking for an individual who is experienced in assessing fetal wellbeing at the different maternity settings and is skilled and experienced in teaching. The post holder will be expected to support Labour Ward as well as the other maternity areas and work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure a safe and efficient service.
The role will require the individual to take a lead on teaching and ensuring training targets are met for fetal wellbeing in accordance to the National requirements.
The role will require the post holder to work collaboratively with the matron to ensure the smooth running of the service including training and orientating and updates.
The post holder will be required to keep abreast of any changes to process or protocol and will be able to able to educate all necessary staff of these changes.
The post holder must be prepared to be part of the team supporting training and assessment for student and preceptorship midwives.
We are lucky to be able to work and provide care in our beautiful, purpose built maternity unit. We currently look after 4700 births per year and book over 5000 women for antenatal care.
Main duties of the job
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To support and work with the teams across the Maternity department to develop a programme plan to facilitate the implementation of a clinically based teaching and competency based assessment package to aim towards achieving better birth outcomes.
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To develop staff awareness in recognising pathophysiological factors that could contribute to misinterpretation of the fetal heart pattern. This will be relevant when using both intermittent auscultation plotted on a partogram and electronic monitoring using a cardiotocographs (CTGs). To develop and expand midwives' competence in undertaking intermittent auscultation of the fetal heart when caring for low risk women as per NICE guidelines, utilising the most current and robust evidence based practice
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Ensure staff can intelligently auscultate the fetal heart in labour in the midwifery led unit and at home reflective in the documentation, and increase confidence in staff in auscultating the fetal heart intermittently using either a pinard or hand held sonicaid.
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Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex, City Universities and University of East London.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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To further embed and develop the current competency testing for fetal monitoring to assess and improve the knowledge and skills of all staff providing intrapartum and antenatal care across all maternity settings.
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To produce and cascade out and embed into practice an “intelligent intermittent auscultation” training package and lead on the use of this in training midwives who provide intrapartum care on the Delivery Suites, the Midwifery Led Unit and in the woman’s home.
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Ensure that all midwives and obstetricians providing antenatal and intrapartum care undertake the competency test in assessing fetal wellbeing.
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In conjunction with the midwifery education team provide enhanced teaching and additional support to staff who need to repeat the competency test to in order to achieve and demonstrate the expected levels of knowledge.
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Lead weekly CTG workshops, maintaining an electronic database to evidence attendance registers and ensure compliance to the mandatory requirement for midwives and medical staff. Disseminate learning which emerges from workshops.
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Organise CTG master classes on the monthly mandatory training week ensuring the attendance of all eligible staff.
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Develop, in conjunction with the Maternity Matrons, Obstetric Lead for Delivery Suite and the Obstetric Lead for Risk, an audit form (on a daily basis) for case reviews all emergency deliveries i.e. instrumental and caesarean sections in the previous twenty-four hours to review the interpretation of CTGs and subsequent management of care. Use findings of such cases for reflective practice sessions, to cascade and evidence learning from good practice and identify areas for further development
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Use every opportunity to facilitate teaching, learning and reflection within the clinical area.
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When required to work as a practicing midwife within the maternity unit and undertake unit coordinator duties as required
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Ensure staff are assessing fetal well-being in the context of the woman's health, pregnancy, gestation and stage of labour by observing how handover is communicated at change of shifts, midwife to doctor communication when referrals are made and listening to assessments made over the telephone (SBAR).
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Ensure that interpretation of fetal assessment is undertaken with a structured approach, reflective of recommendations within our current guidelines and that all documentation reflects this approach.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Educated to degree level or equivalent with evidence of further professional development
- Teaching accreditation/experience
Desirable criteria
- Attended a clinical leadership program
- NLS/PROMP T Instructor.
- Educated to Masters level
- Human Factors Training.
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- o Expert knowledge of midwifery and the complex birth agenda
- o Expert knowledge of caring for women in the acute labour ward.
- o Expert knowledge of interpretation of CTG readings in all clinical settings.
- o Expert knowledge on facilitation of normal birth.
- o Expert knowledge on intermittent auscultation of the fetal heart.
- o Demonstrable experience of managing time effectively.
- o Work on own initiative and as part of a wider team.
- o Knowledge of quality standard setting and audit
- o Research skills
- o Organisation and management skills
- o Ability to influence, motivate and inspire others
- o Ability to manage change
- o Team building skills
- o Articulate with advanced written and verbal communication skills
- o Ability to work effectively under pressure and to meet deadlines
- o Ability to network across the organisation and externally
- o Ability to compile, analyse and disseminate complex information
- o Innovative
- o Strategic thinking
- o Self-motivated , positive, adaptable and flexible approach to work
- o Ability to investigate incidents and complaints to a high standard
Desirable criteria
- o Evidence of academic published work or research
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of significant experience in midwifery practice and leadership with demonstrable achievements in: changing clinical practice
- • developing staff
- • organisational change
- • leadership
- • teaching
- • Evidence of innovative practice that involves research and or audit
- Evidence of research participation
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- • Can work under pressure
- • Calm
- • Supportive
- • Motivated
- • Professional
- • Sufficient to fulfil the post with any reasonable adaptations
- • Ability to communicate effectively both individually and to large groups
- • Advanced IT Skills
Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrates knowledge of evidence based practice.
- • Demonstrates an understanding of the assessment process for midwives, clinical fellows and consultants.
- • Experience with managing performance
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Maria Symeonaki
- Job title
- Lead Midwife for Education and Workforce
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02088874206
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