Fetal Wellbeing Specialist Midwife

The post holder be responsible for personal and professional development of all staff and learners within Maternity team in relation to fetal wellbeing, specifically cardiotocographs (CTGs) and Intelligent Intermittent Auscultation.

Lead and facilitate a programme aimed at equipping both midwives and obstetricians to increase their knowledge and competence in identifying fetal well-being, potential fetal compromise and actual fetal compromise in all clinical settings and to improve timely clinical decision making., To continue embedding and developing the current competency assessment for fetal monitoring, to assess and improve the knowledge and skills of all staff providing intrapartum and antenatal care across all maternity settings

To ensure that all midwives and obstetricians providing antenatal and intrapartum care undertake the competency assessment in assessing fetal wellbeing

Identify learning needs of staff in relation to Fetal Wellbeing. Responsible for addressing identified learning needs through the development of an action plan.

Work clinically with staff in order to facilitate the acquisition and enhancement of clinical skills and assist in the achievement of appropriate levels of competence.

Play a pivotal role in education provision within the department. The Fetal Wellbeing Specialist will be a proficient, approachable role model in addition to an expert clinician, with a proven track record of clinical achievement.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.