Fetal Medicine Midwife

This is an exciting opportunity to join our screening team and be responsible for supporting the fetal medicine aspect of the service.
You will be working closely with our Fetal medicine consultants and the screening team, providing a level of continuity of care in conjunction with the obstetric team. This role is hospital based.
The post holder will be responsible for providing and co-ordinating the care of women who screen positive for chromosome abnormalities and fetal abnormalities within the fetal anomaly screening programme (FASP) and where the risk for fetal abnormalities is increased due to ultrasound findings, maternal infection, genetic risk or previous incidence of abnormality.
**Duties and responsibilities**:
To promote midwifery practice and developments within the clinical care settings and enhance the service offered to women and their families in line with best practice and national standards
To counsel and provide support and information to parents of the unborn fetus with a suspected abnormality, including links with relevant support organisations where appropriate. She/he will provide a link between the woman, maternity services and specialist Fetal Medicine Unit services.
To work closely with the Fetal Medicine Consultants and team and provide assistance with clinical procedures where appropriate.
To participate when required in information giving and counselling women and their partners in the antenatal period regarding fetal abnormality, and advice on services available and treatment options
To liaise with the multidisciplinary team and external specialist team where required to coordinate care for women with on-going pregnancies affected by fetal abnormalities, ensuring appropriate care plans are in place for the birth and neonatal follow up
To co-ordinate the care of pregnant women diagnosed with fetal abnormalities
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.
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust serves the boroughs of Enfield, Haringey and also draws patients from Barnet and Waltham Forest and beyond, this is a catchment area of around one million residents and covers a highly diverse population with affluent wards as well as areas of complex deprivation and serious health need.
The maternity unit opened in November 2013 has some of the best facilities in the UK including:
a modern eight-bed, midwife-led birth centre with four birthing pools
a 14-bed consultant-led unit with senior consultant obstetric cover
two dedicated operating theatres with recovery suites and high dependency care facilities
a modern neonatal unit with 28 neonatal cots
a modern maternity day unit
a dedicated 24/7 maternity triage area
a spacious outpatient area for antenatal gynaecological and scanning appointments
31 bedded ward for inpatient antenatal and postnatal mothers and babies
An innovational and dedicated 4 bedded ward for the management of early pregnancy loss.
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Clinical responsibilities
Be responsible for receiving, correlating and recording all abnormal results relating to Fetal Medicine and action accordingly, including follow up of results that are equivocal or missing, recalling patients and explaining screen positive results and providing the necessary support and counselling
Identify abnormalities in testing results and refer to the multidisciplinary team or other agencies as appropriate
Responsibility for patients
Ensure own up to date professional knowledge of FASP and fetal medicine related care in antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care in accordance with sound evidence based research and national standards
Collect and collate information regarding the fetal anomaly screening programme and supply data as requested by the National Screening Committee. Collate data for audit purposes both locally and nationally.
Person specification

**Qualifications**:
Essential
Current NMC Registered Midwife
First Degree or equivalent advanced study.
Mentorship course
Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.