Lead Midwife for Fetal Medicine

Job summary

Do you have experience in Fetal Medicine? Are you ready to progress your leadership and management skills?

This advert is for a part time (0.8WTE) Band 7 Lead Midwife for Fetal Medicine at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will be an experienced Midwife responsible for the delivery of Fetal Medicine services at St Michael's Hospital. Applicants will be existing Band 6/7 practising Midwives who will lead and work as members of the multidisciplinary team within the maternity service across Bristol and Weston. They will act as an expert resource and role model for the multi-disciplinary team, maternity service, division and trust.

Main duties of the job

• Demonstrate highly technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including; administration of invasive tests and procedures.
• To have on-going responsibility for the clinical area, recognising changing priorities and implementing corrective actions to accommodate changing service needs, planning, implementing and evaluating the specialist care for antenatal clients. Along with ensuring adequate, safe staffing levels.
• Be visible, assertive, coordinating all aspects of patient care and staff management.
• To participate in the maternity Flow rota.

About us

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations,operatingfrom three main sites at Southmead, Bristol citycentreand Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that theSouth Westhas to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.