Lead Midwife for Preterm Birth - Camberley, United Kingdom - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Camberley, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

A brand-new opportunity has arisen for a registered and experienced midwife to join Frimley Health as a 'Lead Midwife for Preterm Birth'.

This role will involve working across both sites at

Frimley Health:
Frimley Park Hospital in Camberley and Wexham Park Hospital in Slough.

The post holder will be responsible for triaging referrals, liaising with relevant patient groups and leading on quality improvement and audit projects regarding preterm birth.

The post holder will work closely with the Antenatal and Newborn Screening teams on both sites.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

As postholder you will:

Provide support for pregnant women and their families by ensuring the correct monitoring is in place through cervical length scanning and ensuring the correct treatment is established with the aim to prevent preterm births within your scope of practice.

Monitor referrals into the preterm birth service and ensure patients are seen in a timely manner while maintaining the administration and standards of the service.

Use excellent communication skills to provide specialist advice regarding preterm birth to the multi-disciplinary team.

Lead on monitoring compliance and implementing the 'Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle No. - Reducing Preterm Births'.

Work closely together with the Patient Safety and Quality Team and build relationships within the team to lead on investigations involving preterm birth.

Share learning points from investigations with relevant and maternity staff with the aim to embed changes in practice.

Liaise with the Local Maternity and Neonatal System (Frimley LMNS) to provide data and information about services and ongoing improvement within the Trust.

Work and communicate where appropriate with other providers across the region and beyond to promote a collaborative approach to improving the preterm birth service.

Stay up to date with preterm birth innovation, improvement work and research to ensure local pathways are continuously in line with best practice.