Fetal Surveillance Midwife

This is a 6 month Secondment post for a Fetal Surveillance Midwife role within SBUHB. The post holder will be expected to work from Singleton site.

The working hours will be 37.5 hours.

The individual in post will need to be a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) registrant, and will adhere to, and perform their role within the NMC standards and meet all requirements for revalidation

This post is fixed/secondment term for 6 months due to meet the needs of the service

If you wish to be offered on a secondment basis, you will need to have gained your line managers approval for the secondment prior to going to interview.

The post holder will understand the Health Board strategic aims and their relationship to the provision of a quality maternity service for women and their families.

They will be expected to lead on improving the standard of antenatal and intrapartum risk assessment and foetal monitoring and work with the multi-disciplinary CTG working group to develop a programme for improving foetal surveillance to achieve better birth outcomes.

This role will be responsible for the development, planning and assessing, creative ways of learning by building on what currently works well and be innovative in using different methods to improve learning, as well as, lead the facilitation of a programme to equip midwives and obstetricians with improved knowledge and competence in assessing foetal well-being, identifying potential foetal compromise and actual foetal compromise in all clinical settings.

The post holder will develop multi-disciplinary team awareness of the factors that contribute to the misinterpretation of CTG and subsequent clinical decision making and will be asked to benchmark against current evidence to ensure CTG interpretation is continually up to date and that any changes in fetal surveillance are disseminated to staff groups.

This role will be essential to ensuring that the Multi-disciplinary team assess foetal well-being in the context of the woman's health, pregnancy, gestation and stage of labour.

Swansea Bay University Health Board covers a population of around 390,000 in Neath/Port Talbot and Swansea areas and we have a budget of around £1bn.

Our values were developed by listening to our service users, the community and our staff. They show our commitment to equality and are at the centre of everything we do.

These are; caring for each other, working together and always improving and this is something that we in maternity service, strive for each and every day.

Singleton Hospital, overlooking Swansea Bay, hosts a range of maternity services across the site. Theses include;
Antenatal clinics,

Day assessment unit,

Acute assessment unit,

Ante-natal ward,

Our midwifery led bay birth unit,

Labour ward,

Post natal ward,

Obstetric theatre

Close links with our tertiary neonatal unit on site and transitionary care unit on antenatal ward.

Alongside Singleton Hospital we have a Community Midwifery Team who support patients in the community.

Neath/Port Talbot Hospital was opened in 2003 and has roughly 200 beds.

Our Maternity services in NPT comprise of:
Ante-natal clinics

Day Assessment Unit

Midwifery Led Unit

We also have a Community Midwifery Team in Neath/Port Talbot who will support patients in the community.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

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