Band 6 Fetal Medicine Midwife

Job summary

The Band 6 Fetal Medicine Midwife will provide high-quality, evidence-based and compassionate care to women and families accessing the Fetal Medicine Service, including those experiencing complex pregnancies, fetal anomalies or other pregnancy complications.

Working within the multidisciplinary team, the post holder will assess, plan, coordinate and deliver individualised care, ensuring women and families receive safe, timely and effective support throughout their fetal medicine pathway. They will provide information, emotional support and continuity of care, particularly during sensitive and challenging situations, promoting dignity, compassion and informed decision-making.

The post holder will assist fetal medicine consultants with specialist and invasive procedures, ensuring women are appropriately prepared, supported and cared for throughout. They will also provide compassionate support to women and families who choose to end a pregnancy following a prenatal diagnosis or pregnancy complication.

The post holder will maintain accurate clinical records, recognise and escalate concerns appropriately, and contribute to clinical governance, audit, quality improvement and service development. They will support multidisciplinary working, participate in the teaching and supervision of students and colleagues, and maintain specialist knowledge and skills through continuous professional development and mandatory training.

Main duties of the job

Have oversight and facilitate clinical care and discharge

*Promote maternal and neonatal health by providing evidence-based education, early intervention, and personalised advice that supports a healthy pregnancy, childbirth and post-natal wellbeing.

*Act as advocate for service users within the areas, to ensure a service user focused approach to the delivery of care

*Ensure service users receive high quality clinical care and a positive service user experience, having regard to their customs, beliefs and ethnicity

*Promote a clean and safe environment for staff, service users and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation /policies and procedures, health care associated infection prevention, governance including risk management and incident reporting and act without delay in the reporting and escalating of any areas of concern

*Undertake a range of physical observations appropriate to the individual's scope of practice using a range of equipment, recording, reporting and escalating findings and concerns

*Monitor service users progress, ensuring accurate records of all relevant observations and clinical assessments are kept and take appropriate action as indicated

*The named midwife and takes responsibility for providing safe and continuous delivery of care to their women and families when on duty

*Be aware of and take appropriate action in regard of deteriorating conditions, clinical emergencies, cardiac arrest, fire and major or internal incidents which affect business continuity

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.