Job summary

As Saving Babies Lives and Fetal Monitoring Lead for our Maternity Unit you will:

Develop, deliver, and lead on multi-disciplinary training programmes as agreed with the Trust Education and Development lead for SWFT Maternity Services and wider divisional staff where appropriate.

Provide strong, visible, and effective clinical leadership with close links to Trust Education and Development team.

Maintain accurate records on trust training data base and produce relevant reports on training activity and evaluations.

You will monitor compliance to all elements of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle V3 and will retain oversight of all ongoing QI projects. You will lead on the collation of appropriate evidence for the Clinical Negligence Scheme Trust (CNST) submission.

As Fetal Monitoring Lead you will be responsible for improving standards of fetal heart monitoring, interpretation, escalation, education and appropriate management of care within the service in all settings.

To lead on multi-disciplinary training at SWFT Maternity Services.

To provide strong, visible and effective clinical and managerial leadership as part of the maternity senior leaders team.

To contribute the multi-disciplinary clinical audit and governance activities.

To assist with the review of published evidence including relevant national, regional and local reports.

Maintain accurate records on the Trust training database.

Main duties of the job

To be the Service lead for Saving Babies Lives and support the safe and effective care of women and babies with the maternity services.

To lead on the improving the standard of intrapartum risk assessment and fetal monitoring, in accordance with element 4 of the Saving Babies' Lives Care Bundle (Version 3): Effective fetal monitoring during labour. To include Fresh Eyes and Fresh Ears processes and compliance.

The aim of this role and Programme is to build on the current practice of achieving healthy birth outcomes for babies who are born at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust.

Escalate concerns and issues as they arise, particularly in where patient safety is a risk.

To work with the MDT to plan, develop and facilitate a programme of learning to achieve better birth outcomes for babies born.

Provide hands on clinical care where practicable. For example providing antenatal and postnatal care within the ward environment or undertaking 1:1 care in labour.

About us

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Date posted

30 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

203-FH902

Job locations

Warwick Hospital

Lakin Road

Warwick

CV34 5BW

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The post holder will lead and facilitate a Programme aimed at equipping 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 improve clinical decision making.

Develop staffs awareness in recognizing factors that could contribute to misinterpretation of cardiotocography (CTGs) and impaired clinical decision making.

Ensure staff are assessing fetal well-being in the context of the woman's health, pregnancy, gestation and stage of labour.

Develop midwives' competence in undertaking intelligent intermittent auscultation of the fetal heart in low risk women as per the Trust and NICE guidelines. Ensure staff can intelligently auscultate the fetal heart in labour in the midwifery led unit and at home, and increase confidence in staff in auscultating the fetal heart intermittently with the use of Fresh Ears process.

Support staff in enhancing their skills in reducing risk within clinical practice.

Take a lead role in supporting the development of a safety culture within the context of resource constraints and multiple conflicting priorities.

Facilitate staff in developing and applying reflective practice skills.

Review, develop and support with current training packages and educational resources. In partnership with the Practice Development Midwife, Obstetricians, HEIs and local training and education boards/ networks; develop creative ways of learning by building on what currently works well and be innovative in using opportunities and different methods/ways to improve learning.

Work in collaboration with all grades and specialties to ensure the Trust is meeting guidance and standards in relation to saving babies lives. Where standards are not being met or failing, undertake a deep dive, understand the issues and undertake QI projects to improve compliance.

To report and provide constructive feedback on a regular basis, whilst identifying and disseminating learning from audits, outcomes, practice and teaching sessions.

Working to continue to provide comprehensive training and competency testing to give assurance that all staff responsible for fetal assessment and wellbeing are competent.

Clinical Practice

Ensure that all midwives and obstetricians undertake the competency test in assessing fetal wellbeing.

Provide teaching and support for staff who need to repeat the competency test.

Lead CTG workshops, maintaining attendance registers to ensure compliance for midwives and medical staff. Disseminate learning which emerges from workshops.

Take a lead role in auditing and incident reviewing, working with the fetal monitoring lead obstetrician to identify learning and themes.

Use findings of such cases for reflective practice sessions.

Use every opportunity to facilitate teaching, learning and reflection within the clinical area.

To communicate highly sensitive and complex information to women and their families clearly explaining the benefits and risks of different care approaches and the alternatives available recognising barriers to acceptance.

To uphold these standards and support midwives in achieving them.

Represent the Trust on external professional groups and network with colleagues from other organisations as appropriate.

Maintain an identifiable clinical presence and undertake relevant clinical activities to maintain own clinical competency and to support staff in developing clinical practice.

Professional Leadership

Act as a clinical role model for effective clinical leadership enabling and facilitating others to take forward initiatives around saving babies lives and fetal monitoring.

Work collaboratively with other professional groups to maximise development opportunities and inter - professional learning opportunities.

Maximise opportunities to share good practices and innovations with colleagues locally and nationally.

Contribute to the development of a learning organisation, alerting the appropriate parties to resource issues which may affect this.

Identify own training and professional development needs to maintain clinical credibility.

Influence and nurture positive attitudes and behaviours within the teams and wider multidisciplinary team.

To lead the change management process where indicated using QI methodology.

To provide training and support all staff in professional growth.

To manage and resolve conflict.

Attending unit meetings, service level meetings, Trust and ICS meetings, making contributions towards professional, organisational and service progress.

To participate in the process for providing assurance in the form of audit, quarterly and annual reports to the maternity service governance and risk committees, with regarding to bereavement and screening provision and compliance with standards and where appropriate assist with the compilation of such reports.

Manage specialist staff within your remit including deputy and champions.

Promote a culture where staff are valued, supported and deliver high quality care.

Understand, manage and be accountable for the use of resources in a cost effective way.

Participate in the recruitment, selection and retention of staff.

Working with LMNS and regional colleges participating in national steering groups.

Organisational and Professional Development

Respond to incidents and complaints as they arise in line with Trust policy.

Identify own development needs and actively work towards own professional development (IPR to support this).

To provide emergency cover and at short notice for unexpected absence/sickness across the maternity service.

Participate in a Midwifery on call rota.

Communication

Maintain effective communication remaining polite and courteous in all situations.

Maintain confidentiality at all times.

Manage complaints in line with Trust policy.

Report clinical and non-clinical risk management issues in line with Trust policy and ensure appropriate feedback to staff.

Ensure effective communication with all members of the multidisciplinary team.