Closing Date: 07.04.25 (this may change dependent on response)
Shortlisting to take place after closing date: commencing 08.04.25
Interview expected to take place in the week following shortlisting: commencing 21.04.25
Substantive
18.75 hours per week
Band 7
Specialist Midwife – Safer Maternity Care- Fetal monitoring
Women’s CSU
Women’s and Newborn Unit.
An opportunity has arisen within the Women’s Clinical Service Unit to be a Specialist Midwife within the Women’s Clinical Service Unit. The CSU are pleased to be recruiting additional specialist midwives to provide joint collaborative leadership within a service, that already has an established programme for ‘Saving babies lives’, with a substantive ‘ Safer Maternity care midwife’ already in post. Together you will co-ordinate the Saving babies lives programme, playing a pivotal role in delivering education and training to increase the knowledge of our staff on CTG interpretation and classification for our CSU.
The service has been highly praised for leading and implementing a successful programme for the Saving Babies live care bundle V3. We are committed to further improvement and learning. Therefore, this collaboration will increase the capacity to address the complex issues our service faces, shaping further improvements to enhance the knowledge of staff who utilise fetal monitoring when they are caring for birthing people.
The Specialist Midwife for Safer Maternity Care will jointly and collaboratively, co-ordinate the implementation of key domains within in the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle (SBLCBV3) and any subsequent National Maternity safety drivers which may supersede or compliment. The key objective of this post is to triangulate data and deliver a programme of improvement to support the key objective of fetal monitoring education and national guidance for BTHFT. The Specalist Midwife for Safer Maternity Care will be a joint lead for the Maternity Service for the fetal monitoring programme, linking with the Consultant leads, department managers and workforce, to ensure that all Quality, safety and improvements are agreed and implemented.
You will support the Multi-Disciplinary Team and compliment the existing Safer Maternity Care Midwives, in driving, evaluating and providing assurance for the Saving babies lives programme. The role will collaborate and develop strong links with other Specalist roles who contribute to Quality & Safety.
At Bradford Teaching Hospitals we’re passionate about providing outstanding care for the people of the Bradford district and communities across the North of England. We’re keen to meet people interested in sharing our passion and helping us continue to deliver the highest quality of care to our patients.
We’re a renowned teaching hospital trust at the forefront of research, education and development, with a state-of-the-art simulation and skills training centre on site.
In short, we can help you lift your career to the next level. We’ve received huge investment to improve patient care which means we have truly world-class facilities including a brand-new neonatal suite, state-of-the-art intensive care unit, a newly refurbished A&E department, new children’s unit and a welcoming, modern atrium and reception area for staff and visitors.
Please see attached for the job description document for this post for further details in regards to the main responsibilities of the role.
We are seeking an innovative, proactive, compassionate senior Midwife who can demonstrate a high level of specialised independent working to meet the requirements of external and internal quality standards. You will be organised, examine and interpret data, present findings in person and virtually, both locally and regionally.
You will jointly lead and support a small team of smoking cessation support workers and take the initiative in offering advice and guidance to the administrator for PMRT, working closely and collaboratively with the Consultant leads for SBL and PMRT within the perinatal service. You will be an aspirational leader with clinical credibility, which is pivotal to service transformation, delivering on the ambitions described, implementing the recommended assurances to demonstrates quality across all elements of the SBL domains.
The successful person is integral to supporting the Women’s leadership team and will contribute to operational requirements such as Senior Midwife on call and CSU bed manager role, following a period of support. If you are committed and visionary, dedicated to families and service transformation, we welcome your application.
Direct responsibility will lie with the successful candidate and the existing Specialist Midwives for Safer Maternity Care, for training, audit and Quality Improvement for fetal monitoring, presenting findings through written reports and engaging presentations, driving meaningful improvements for elements of SBL and PMRT.
This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced midwife to thrive as a new or experienced leader within a supportive established team who will offer extensive support and encouragement. Working flexibly is key to enable this specialist service to meet the requirements as described and meeting the needs of the whole service.
A key objective of this role is to collaborate with the Multidisciplinary Team, dedicating time as the fetal monitoring champion, learning from outcomes in relation to CTG case reviews and triangulating themes from existing sources. You will take the initiative and identify further areas for improvement to meet the fetal monitoring domain and all domains within the SBL and mortality reviews agenda.
As a Specialist Midwife you will represent the service and present the progress with SBLCBV3 at West Yorkshire and Harrogate (WY&H) Local Maternity Neonatal System (LMNS) level, Yorkshire and Humber Maternity Neonatal Network and National level where appropriate.
The post holder will be an experienced midwife that is clinically credible and able to support the service in times of escalation, participating in the Senior Midwife on call maternity rota and Bed manager role, pro rata, following a period of training and support.
The post holder will work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, both internal and external, communicating with agencies and user representatives, acting as a representative on external forums when required and collating information in the required format, uploading data to the NHS Futures platform, ensuring that data can be easily accessed by key stakeholders. You will keep abreast of new guidance to ensure that, guidelines and any standard operating procedures are aligned with SBL, feeding any required information and learning into PMRT, to support improvements and learning. You will actively educate yourself with all aspects of SBL and PMRT, stepping out of your comfort zone, to cross cover one another when annual leave or absence occurs.
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