Lead Midwife for Saving Babies Lives

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Lead Midwife for Saving Babies Lives

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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Frimley, Surrey

  • Full time
  • Temporary
  • Onsite working

Posted 3 weeks ago, 23 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 092e0344ee924afda61d4e2845c40abd

Full Job Description

The post holder will be leading on the implementation of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle (SBLCB) across maternity at Frimley Health.
The post holder will work closely with the consultant midwives, the patient safety team, the practice development team and other stakeholders at both sites to achieve the elements of the care bundle.

Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

A brand-new opportunity has arisen for a registered and experienced midwife to join Frimley Health as a 'Lead Midwife for Saving Babies Lives'.
This role will involve working across both sites at Frimley Health: Frimley Park Hospital in Camberley and Wexham Park Hospital in Slough., + Lead on implementing and maintaining compliance with SBLCB at Frimley Health, including:
o Reducing smoking in pregnancy
o Risk assessment and surveillance of pregnancies at risk of Fetal Growth Restriction (FGR)
o Raising awareness of reduced fetal movements
o Reducing preterm birth
o Management of pre-existing diabetes
+ Support the Consultant Midwives, the Quality & Governance Lead and the Lead Midwife for Education to achieve better birth outcomes through audit and training.
+ Work alongside the MDT to achieve the relevant elements of the care bundle.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.