Whittington Health
Preterm Birth Specialist Midwife
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We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced midwife to join our Fetal Medicine Unit team as the Preterm Birth Specialist midwife. Only midwives with 3 years post preceptorship experience will be considered. You must have completed a UK preceptorship.
The Role Requires You To
- Ensure that the preterm birth service is offered and delivered appropriately to the cohort of women/birthing people who are at risk of preterm birth.
- Provide clinical midwifery care to women/birthing people at risk of preterm birth. Triage referrals and ensure the allocation of women/birthing persons on to the appropriate care pathways, this may involve autonomous review of some women/birthing people who meet the criteria for review of cervical length images performed and facilitating the appropriate follow up care, including discharge for women/birthing people with measurements within normal limits.
- Provide appropriate counselling and able to cope with highly distressing or emotional circumstances e.g. on diagnosis of a high risk of having a preterm labour and birth. Guide and support junior staff in this situation.
- Support the clinical teams and work clinically as required during periods of increased activity. Be visible and accessible in the clinical area to support the multidisciplinary team in undertaking their role. This includes reviewing women/birthing people on the antenatal, labour and postnatal wards and liaising with the relevant professional in the multiprofessional team.
- Act as a resource for colleagues and provide expert knowledge.
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Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Gillian de La Motte
- Job title: Matron for Maternity Outpatients and Birth Centre
- Email address: gillian.delamotte@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 02072885638
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