Staff Nurse

4 weeks ago

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

Job overview

·The aim of this role is to ensure that all staff providing antepartum andintrapartum care across Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) MaternityServicesarecompetentandskilledinfetalmonitoring.

·We are looking for an enthusiastic and committed Midwife with strong clinicalleadership and facilitation skills.

·The post-holder will work autonomously as the lead midwife practitioner for Fetal Surveillance and will lead on improving the standard ofrisk assessment and fetal monitoring in line with element 4 of the SavingBabies'Lives 2Care Bundle.

·The postholder will be a highly visible champion for safe and effective fetalheartrateinterpretationthroughdemonstrationofexpertclinicalknowledgeand practice. Education and training of maternity staff is a fundamentalelementofthis post.

·The postholder will communicate sensitive and complex information relating to abnormal fetal surveillance findings to parents in labour who will frequently be in pain and highly anxious

·Therolewillsupportembeddingourphysiologicalapproachtofetal monitoring applied tointelligentintermittentauscultation andCTGmonitoring.

·The Fetal Surveillance Midwife will work closely with the consultantobstetrician with advanced expert skills in fetal monitoring andwork in partnership with the Delivery Suite Lead Midwife and Consultant inensuringthatcareprovidedtomothersandbabiesisbothsafeandeffective.

Main duties of the job

·Represent the learning and development team to liaise with the Risk Management team toidentifycurrenttrendsinriskregardingfetalmonitoring

·Identifyingcasestogeneratelearning -fromshopfloorwithnoharm

·Identifying cases to generate learning - from risk and governance and from termadmissions to the neonatal unit fromanintrapartumfetalmonitoringperspective

·Improve the safety and experience of women and families by developingstaff to provide the appropriate level of fetal monitoring related clinicalknowledge, skills and competencies.This will include establishing or use of existing systems to demonstrate practice development improvements,linktrainingintoriskassessmentandsharebest practice.

·Facilitate the orientation of fetal monitoring guidelines and practice for newmembersofstaff.

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Working for our organisation

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust 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. Fordcombe Hospital is near Tunbridge Wells and became part of the Trust in October 2024. It focusses on planned care and has two operating theatres, 28 inpatient and day care beds, diagnostic services including X-ray, MRI, CT and endoscopy, and a number of consultation and treatment rooms.

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

·Working collaboratively with obstetric consultants and the practice development team in maternity to increase midwives’ and obstetricians’knowledge and competence in identifying fetal well-being, escalating andmanaging potential fetal compromise and actual fetal compromise in allclinicalsettings.

·Develop staff awareness in recognising factors that could contribute tomisinterpretation of cardiotocographs (CTGs) and impaired clinicaldecisionmaking.

·Ensure staff are assessing fetal well-being in the context of the woman's health, pregnancy, gestation, clinical risk factors and stage of labour and usethis toinformtheirdecisionmaking

·Developmidwives'competenceinundertakingintermittentauscultationof thefetalheart in lowrisk women asper guidelines

·Ensure staff can intelligently auscultate the fetal heart in labour in themidwifery led unit and at home and increase confidence in staff inauscultatingthefetal heart intermittently

·Ensure that all midwives and obstetricians providing antenatal carewhetherintheantenatalward,clinic,dayassessmentunitandortriage undertakethecompetencytest in assessingfetal wellbeing

·Provide teaching and support for staff who need to repeat the competencytest

·Work with the education lead for maternity and CSF’s to facilitate theweekly CTG and Intermittent Auscultation meetings, maintainingattendanceregisterstoensurecompliancetothemandatoryrequirement for midwives and medical staff. Disseminate learning which emerges from workshops

·OrganiseCTGmasterclasses ensuringtheattendanceof alleligiblestaff

·Useeveryopportunitytofacilitateteaching,learningandreflectionwithin the clinicalarea

·Take responsibility for teaching sessions on mandatory training days withregardstofetalsurveillance.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Registered Midwife Post-graduate Degree or equivalent experience in relevant field or obtained through personal or professional lived experience

Desirable criteria

Leadership/ management qualification

Skills

Essential criteria

Able to lead, influence and persuade colleagues through change Able to work collaboratively with staff at all levels across the Trust and with external stakeholders and committed to teamwork Able to motivate, empower and facilitate teams from different professional disciplines to be proactive Able to lead and manage teams Able to use excel for data input, analysis and producing graphs and reports, with proficient keyboard skills

Desirable criteria

To have participated in audit/research and development programmes

Experience

Essential criteria

Confident and competent in providing antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal midwifery care. Knowledgeable in the Saving Babies Lives Care bundle Understanding and application of the principles of professional accountability and confidentiality Demonstrates expert knowledge of CTG interpretation and intermittent auscultation Ability to recognise and analyse complex situations and or deviation from the normal and act upon it Experience of leadership including teaching and mentoring learners.

Desirable criteria

Experience of teaching in clinical and classroom settings Undertaking and evaluating quality improvement programmes

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