Preterm Birth Specialist Midwife

7 days ago

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

Preterm birth (PTB) is defined as delivery at less than 37+0 week’s gestation, and is a common complication of pregnancy comprising around 8% of births in England and Wales. It is the most important single determinant of adverse infant outcome with regards to survival and quality of life.
Babies born preterm have high rates of early, late, and post-neonatal mortality and morbidity and contributes to an estimated to cost health services in England and Wales of £3.4bn per year.
The Preterm Birth Midwife will work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team, and will play a key role in co-ordinating the care and support of women who are at increased risk of preterm labour, with suspected or confirmed preterm labour, or having a planned preterm birth (i.e. due to fetal growth restriction, preeclampsia or other clinical reason).
The Preterm Birth Midwife will participate actively in local and regional networks, teaching and research to improve education and implementation of Preterm Birth pathway. They will also work closely with the MVP & parents’ network to co-design services to ensure that pathways are supportive and equitable for women and families accessing maternity care at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.
This is a key role in developing and maintaining our preterm birth service ensuring the continued high standard of care for women.
The post holder will develop expert knowledge of preterm pregnancy management options including the pros and cons of prophylactic vaginal progesterone or cervical cerclage procedures, services and support. And will be responsible for the management of individualised care of a defined group of mothers and babies using the assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating process within a multidisciplinary framework.
Further In-depth breakdown of responsibilities is included within the JD.
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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