DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Experience using digital Maternity systems (e.g. Badgernet, CERNER)
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The post holder will be required to:

• To lead on improving the standard of intrapartum risk assessment and fetal monitoring, as per element 4 of the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle: effective fetal monitoring during labour.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of a comprehensive training and competency testing package to give assurance that all staff responsible for fetal assessment and wellbeing are competent. Deliver the fetal monitoring training package to the MDT as required
• Support and work with the labour ward matrons, patient safety team and obstetric fetal monitoring and labour ward leads to ensure that fetal monitoring training and implementation of ‘in action’ learning is aimed at equipping midwives and doctors to improve their knowledge and competence in CTG interpretation and assessing fetal wellbeing
• Ensure staff are assessing fetal well-being in the context of the woman’s health, pregnancy, gestation and stage of labour.
• Ensure staff can intelligently auscultate the fetal heart in labour in the midwifery led unit and at home and increase confidence in staff auscultating the fetal heart intermittently
• Develop midwives’ competence and understanding of ST-Analysis
• Contribute to the ongoing development of a comprehensive training and competency testing package to give assurance that all staff responsible for fetal assessment and wellbeing are competent. Deliver the fetal monitoring training package to the MDT as required

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see attached detailed job description for further information and main responsibilities of the role.