Lead Midwife for Fetal Medicine

Job summary

Do you have experience in Fetal Medicine? Are you ready to progress your leadership and management skills?

This advert is for a part time (0.8WTE) Band 7 Lead Midwife for Fetal Medicine at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will be an experienced Midwife responsible for the delivery of Fetal Medicine services at St Michael's Hospital. Applicants will be existing Band 6/7 practising Midwives who will lead and work as members of the multidisciplinary team within the maternity service across Bristol and Weston. They will act as an expert resource and role model for the multi-disciplinary team, maternity service, division and trust.

Main duties of the job

• Demonstrate highly technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including; administration of invasive tests and procedures.
• To have on-going responsibility for the clinical area, recognising changing priorities and implementing corrective actions to accommodate changing service needs, planning, implementing and evaluating the specialist care for antenatal clients. Along with ensuring adequate, safe staffing levels.
• Be visible, assertive, coordinating all aspects of patient care and staff management.
• To participate in the maternity Flow rota.

About us

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations,operatingfrom three main sites at Southmead, Bristol citycentreand Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that theSouth Westhas to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Job responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Registered Midwife
• Degree qualification or equivalent
• Teaching/Mentoring qualification and evidence of teaching skills
• Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation
• Child protection training

Experience - Desirable

Desirable

• Experience in operating laser and assisting with fetoscopic laser photocoagulation and other procedures required within FMU
• Ability to perform and interpret basic ultrasound assessment

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Can build effective working relationships with staff at all levels across different teams in the hospital and across the region (including neonatal, gynaecology, fetal medicine, delivery suite, patient safety and psychology) to co-ordinate patient care
• Ability to work across a variety of digital platforms, and collate and analyse data for pregnancy outcomes
• Can work independently as an autonomous practitioner as well as part of the MDT and be organised in the practice environment.
• Be actively engaged in service development, commissioning, and provision of complex care pathways.
• Can demonstrate leadership / management Skills
• Ability to initiate change
• Ability to facilitate development in others

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Excellent communication / Interpersonal skills
• Motivated and enthusiastic
• Sympathetic and supportive attitude
• Flexibility to meet the daily needs of the job
• Supportive
• Collaborative
• Respectful
• Innovative

Experience

Essential

• Significant post registration experience
• Experience of working within Fetal Medicine
• Experience in clinical procedures specific to Fetal Medicine Unit

Desirable

• Extended clinical midwifery skills