Fetal Medicine Midwife

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife to join the Antenatal and Newborn (ANNB) Screening Team at QEW as a Fetal Medicine Midwife. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to acquire new skills, knowledge and experience as well as providing career development.

You will be required to work and liaise closely with the ANNB Screening Manager, ANNB Screening Coordinator, Fetal Medicine Consultants on both sites as well as the wider local and national multi-agency teams which include midwives, specialist consultants, the sonography team, senior managers, and laboratory staff.

The post holder must have the passion and drive to sustain change in order to meet both local and national ANNB screening standards and implement and embed robust systems and processes which underpin the Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme.

You will be responsible for providing counselling, advice and support to women who attend the Fetal Medicine Clinic at UHL and ensuring women and their families are at the centre of care.

You will need to have excellent organisational and IT skills required for the delivery of; mandatory training to multi-disciplinary groups; reviewing and updating clinical guidelines; supporting the investigation of clinical incidents and populating the screening database to enable data to be used for the quarterly key performance indicators and reports.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development

Widening access (anchor institution) and employability

Improving the experience of staff with disability

Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development

Making equalities mainstream

Job Function/Responsibilities

The role of the Fetal Medicine Midwife is to:

• Oversee and facilitate the Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP)
• Oversee and facilitate the provision of care pathways for women and babies who are found to be high risk in the combined and quadruple screening test
• Facilitate the provision of care for women with low PAPP-A
• Formulate complex plans of care in partnership with women and other service providers
• Provide information to parents to facilitate choice regarding invasive testing
• Assist in clinical procedures
• Oversee and facilitate the provision of care pathways for women who undergo termination of pregnancy
• Liaise with Newborn screening team (NBST) regarding women with Red Cell antibodies and facilitate care plans
• Provide midwifery care and advice to women have complex multiple pregnancies
• Participate in the collation and provision of data on the performance of the Maternity Service in achieving compliance with the antenatal and new-born screening standards
• Provide assurances to the Maternity Governance and Risk Board around the provision of the FASP screening services
• Develop services and care pathways, in partnership with the multidisciplinary team,
• To provide regular updates and training to midwives and support staff when caring for women with fetal abnormalities or having termination of pregnancy
• Ensure potential risks and clinical incidents are reported and investigated through the Trust incident reporting system

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