Job summary
- Main area
- Women and Children's Health - Maternity
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
- Job ref
- 343-7302544-UB-RB-Y
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cross site
- Town
- Epsom/Carshalton
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 per annum pro rata incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Fetal Surveillance Midwife
Band 7
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
Job overview
The post holder will:
· Lead on improving the standard of intrapartum risk assessment and fetal monitoring, as per element 4 of the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle: effective fetal monitoring during labour
· To contribute to the ongoing implementation of physiological Cardiotocography (CTG) interpretation. Support and work with the Inpatient Matron and Lead Midwife for Safety and Transformation, to ensure that fetal monitoring training and implementation of ‘in action‘ learning is aimed at equipping midwives and doctors to improve their knowledge and competence in CTG interpretation and assessing fetal wellbeing.
· The post holder is expected to work flexibly across all locations of the Trust.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to:
- To lead on improving the standard of intrapartum risk assessment and fetal monitoring, as per element 4 of the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle: effective fetal monitoring during labour.
- Contribute to the ongoing development of a comprehensive training and competency testing package to give assurance that all staff responsible for fetal assessment and wellbeing are competent. Deliver the fetal monitoring training package to the MDT as required
- Support and work with the labour ward matrons, patient safety team and obstetric fetal monitoring and labour ward leads to ensure that fetal monitoring training and implementation of ‘in action’ learning is aimed at equipping midwives and doctors to improve their knowledge and competence in CTG interpretation and assessing fetal wellbeing
- Ensure staff are assessing fetal well-being in the context of the woman's health, pregnancy, gestation and stage of labour.
- Ensure staff can intelligently auscultate the fetal heart in labour in the midwifery led unit and at home and increase confidence in staff auscultating the fetal heart intermittently
- Develop midwives' competence and understanding of ST-Analysis
- Contribute to the ongoing development of a comprehensive training and competency testing package to give assurance that all staff responsible for fetal assessment and wellbeing are competent. Deliver the fetal monitoring training package to the MDT as required
Working for our organisation
We operate two busy general hospitals, Epsom Hospital and St Helier Hospital, and run services from other locations, including Sutton Hospital.
St Helier Hospital is home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, while Epsom Hospital is home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). Both Epsom and St Helier hospitals have Accident and Emergency departments (A&E) and Maternity services (Obstetrics).
Epsom and St Helier have around 3,800 births annually. Acute and planned maternity services are offered across to hospital sites (Epsom General Hospital and St Helier Hospital) as well as in the community setting. Both units have a birth centre adjacent to Labour Ward.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached detailed job description for further information and main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife with current NMC registration
- First degree or significant equivalent clinical experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Must be willing to work towards further development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of undertaking audit/presenting audit findings
- Evidence of working across all areas of Midwifery, including Labour ward and birth centre
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in an Education team role or teaching experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- A good understanding of fetal surveillance, including fetal physiology
- Knowledge of Safety actions in relation to CNST
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
- Good presentation skills
- Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
- Excellent clinical midwifery skills and knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Experience using digital Maternity systems (e.g. Badgernet, CERNER)
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
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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
- Laura Rowe
- Job title
- Lead Midwife for Clinical Governance and Assurance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920 708780
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