Fetal Medicine Midwife

Job Overview
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for detailed job description of the role.

Main Duties of the Job
A unique opportunity has arisen within the Wessex Fetal Medicine Unit for a compassionate, kind, open-minded, and highly motivated midwife to join our multi-disciplinary team.
We provide highly specialised care to women/pregnant people and their extended families across the Wessex region and Channel Islands who have a complex pregnancy.
We are a team of 8 highly trained fetal medicine consultants and 5 midwives, providing a Monday – Friday, 8.00 am to 6.00 pm service.
We work very closely and collaboratively with the neonatal team, paediatric cardiology/surgical teams, and the wider paediatric/genetic MDT to provide expert care to families and babies with complex and challenging anomalies.

Working for Our Organisation
University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.
Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs, and Jurassic Coast.
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At UHS, we’re committed to providing a flexible working environment where possible. Whether you are balancing family, study, or your wellbeing with your career, we want to support you so you can help our patients.
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Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
The successful candidate will work with the multi-disciplinary team to provide excellence in care provision to women/pregnant people and their extended families during highly emotional circumstances.

• Assisting with invasive testing and fetal interventions such as IUTs and drain insertions.
• To support parents through the termination of pregnancy pathway.
• To act as an advocate.
• To participate in complex prenatal discussions and options for pregnancy and supporting parents through difficult decision making.
• Liaising with the MDT across the Wessex region and Channel Islands.
• To act as an educational resource for prenatal screening and diagnoses for other health professionals both locally and regionally.

What We Are Looking For

• Recent experience as a band 6 midwife for at least 2 years.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills both verbal and non-verbal.
• Empathetic and caring manner.
• To be a team player.
• Able to deal with stressful and upsetting situations.
• To have a willingness to learn and develop.

Person Specification
Trust Values
Essential Criteria

• Patients First
• Always Improving
• Working Together

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
Essential Criteria

• Registered midwife on relevant part of the NMC Register
• Diploma or degree in midwifery
• Completion of preceptorship
• Competent clinical skills and knowledge across all areas of midwifery practice
• Understanding of clinical priorities
• Understanding of current midwifery issues
• Knowledge of current Government NHS Agenda relevant to Maternity Services
• Suturing competency
• Cannulation competency

Desirable Criteria

• Physical Examination of the Newborn (NIPE) qualification
• Recognised teaching/mentorship qualification
• Professional Midwifery Advocate (Supervisor of Midwives)
• Case loading experience
• Shift leading experience
• High dependency experience