Midwife - Saving Babies Lives

4 days ago


Royal Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Full time

Work with the multi-disciplinary teams including specialist midwives, obstetricians and neonatologists to promote team working, review, plan, and implement the elements of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle version 3 and future versions.
Champion and embed a culture within the unit to improve the quality of care and outcomes for women and their babies. Ensuring the Trust has robust and evidence-based care pathways and policies to support delivery of national ambitions to reduced perinatal morbidity and mortality.
The Saving Babies Lives Midwife will participate actively in local and regional networks, teaching and research to improve education and implementation. The role will involve working with the education leads for maternity to embed the knowledge and skills from a comprehensive competency framework, including learning from local incidents.
Plan, implement, review and maintain requirements for elements of the ‘Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle version 3’.
Use improvement framework tools to ensure that improvements are measured and change is evaluated.
Ensure that the specified process and outcome measures for the SBLCBv3 elements are available and tracked
Be a key member of the team on the perinatal mortality review tool (PMRT) review board and ATAIN where required.
Implement elements of the new Saving Babies Care bundle v3 and any future updates
Report any incidents / accidents to the clinical governance lead / Midwifery Manager / labour ward co-ordinator for the day as appropriate and complete InPhase forms.
MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.
We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.
In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.
**Interview Date**: To be confirmed



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