Saving Babies Lives Midwife – Fetal Surveillance

1 month ago

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

Job overview

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

Following your Corporate Induction you will be expected to attend the Trust’s 2-week Induction Programme for RNs, NAs, RMs, ODPs and Paramedics. The programme is full-time (please email if this is problematic) and will involve travel to both Trust sites. The programme includes supernumerary shifts in the clinical area, classroom-based sessions and e-learning.

Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check at  Enhanced Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children)

At MTW, we seek to develop a culture where everyone can reach their full potential with opportunities to grow and develop their career. We recognise and value the unique contributions that each of our staff bring, delivering the best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to being a diverse employer and strive to reflect everyone in our local communities. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that will make our Trust the best place to work.

We support our staff with disabilities to ensure they have the adjustments they need to be the best they can be in the workplace. Collaborating with Access to Work means that our staff are assessed by experts in the workplace and we ensure that their recommendations are implemented as quickly as possible. You can find out more here: Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition: What Access to Work is - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) 

Interview Date: To be confirmed

Please note that this role may often attract a high level of applications. Please note this role may close earlier than the original closing date so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Evidence of continued professional development Post-grad degree or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

Leadership qualification

Experience/Knowledge

Essential criteria

Knowledgeable about SBLCB Experience of teaching Ability to deal with issues of risk management within the clinical context Ability to challenge practice/behaviour when required

Desirable criteria

Undertaking quality improvement projects

Skills

Essential criteria

Able to prioritise and manage a complex and diverse work load Able to create and deliver presentations that effectively communicates information and ideas Able to analyse and interpret findings of audit and develop action plans Able to work collaboratively with staff at all levels across the Trust and with external stakeholders and committed to teamwork Able to lead, influence and persuade colleagues through change

Desirable criteria

Participated in audit / research and development programmes

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