We have an exciting opportunity for a Maternal Medicine Midwife to our dynamic and friendly team here at West Herts.
The primary responsibility of the Maternal Medicine Midwife is to work as a specialist Midwife, offering specialist advice and care to service users with existing, complex medical conditions or comorbidities.
This includes assessment of care needs, leading on the development, implementation and evaluations on programmes of care and the setting of standards.
Coordinate care throughout the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods.
Triage referrals to the maternal medicine service and review antenatal clinic lists to ensure appropriate care plans are followed and care is tailored to individual needs
Co-ordinate multi-disciplinary activities including consultant led clinics
Ensure that personalised care plans are instigated, evaluated and amended appropriately throughout the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods
To review maternal medicine patients whilst in inpatient settings. This may include within the maternity department and outliers in medical or surgical wards such as intensive or high dependency care units or the emergency department.
Identify and escalate clinical concerns appropriately, ensuring timely referral to relevant specialists.
Communicate complex and sensitive matters to service users and their families enabling them to make informed choices
Advocate for service user’s and families and escalate accordingly
With a new hospital planned for Watford and work underway to update theatres at St Albans City Hospital, this is an exciting time to join us.
We are building on the success of our award-winning virtual hospital and re-imaging models of care, working ever more closely with partners and making the most of advances in digital healthcare.
Staff wellbeing and development are a priority at our Trust, as is the role of innovation in improving clinical care, outcomes and patient experience.
Our vision is Excellent patient care, together and our values are to be empowered, compassionate, professional and inclusive. They capture an important balance across what we must all do as individuals and to support others.
At West Herts we offer a variety of flexible working options as we recognise the importance of a good work life balance and the ability to work flexibly. https://www.westhertshospitals.nhs.uk/flexibleworking/
We kindly invite you to consider submitting an application.
If you have a disability or long-term health condition and should you require support or guidance please contact
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Share specialist knowledge with the wider multidisciplinary team
Promote your role as a specialist midwife and lead by example
Aware of escalation pathways including freedom to speak up, safety champions and able to direct staff to these services where required
Act as a resource staff and provide educational updates and guidance on the service, referral pathways, and supportive, educational resources.
Maintain the maternal medicine database to include all information for caseload including demographic data and provide assurance regarding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
To work alongside the Lead Midwife for Maternal Medicine to develop the service within the maternal medicine network.
Participate in the development, implementation and evaluation of standards of care, including guideline development, standard operating procedures, audit and quality improvement initiatives in relation to Maternal Medicine
Collaborate with the Clinical Governance and Risk team to actively contribute to incident reporting, investigation and the implementation of necessary changes.
Participate in and contribute to departmental/team meetings
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute healthcare services to a core catchment population of approximately half a million people living in west Hertfordshire and the surrounding area. The Trust also provides a range of more specialist services to a wider population, serving residents of North London, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and East Hertfordshire.
As an employer of nearly 6,000 people the Trust is one of the biggest employers in the area and sees nearly a million patients each year.
