CTG Champion / Patient Safety Midwife for Intrapartum Care
Job overview
Join Our Team as a CTG Champion/Patient Safety Midwife at Royal Oldham Hospital
We are excited to announce a full-time opportunity for a dedicated, dynamic, and enthusiastic midwife to take on the role of CTG Champion/Patient Safety Midwife for Intrapartum Care at Royal Oldham Hospital.
Key Responsibilities:
- Education and Training: Play a pivotal role in delivering education and training to enhance the skills and knowledge of our maternity team, ensuring the highest standards of care
- Care Reviews: Undertake reviews of care related to foetal monitoring to ensure compliance with best practices and contribute to the safety and wellbeing of mothers and babies
- Clinical Audit and Quality Improvement: Participate in clinical audits and quality improvement initiatives, driving positive changes in practice and enhancing patient safety
- Provision of Clinical Care: Engage in the delivery of clinical care, working closely with the multidisciplinary team to ensure comprehensive and compassionate support for women during intrapartum care
If you are passionate about promoting patient safety and advancing clinical excellence in maternity care, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity at Royal Oldham Hospital.
Join us in making a difference in the lives of mothers and their babies.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic midwife to join our team as our CTG Champion. In this pivotal role, you will play a key part in shaping the care and experiences of mothers and babies, driving high-quality, safe care, and promoting clinical excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Foetal Monitoring Education & Improvements: Collaborate with our maternity team to develop and deliver foetal monitoring education and training, focusing on best practices and evidence-based guidelines to enhance care quality and patient safety
- Clinical Governance: Contribute to the clinical governance agenda by participating in multidisciplinary team (MDT) practice reviews, ATAIN reviews, and undertaking clinical incident reviews, ensuring seamless care and minimizing risk
- Audit & Quality Improvement: Take the lead in conducting audits related to foetal monitoring, presenting findings through written reports and engaging presentations, and driving meaningful improvements in practice
- Multidisciplinary Teamwork: Collaborate seamlessly with healthcare professionals across various disciplines to enhance intrapartum patient safety, ensuring a culture of openness, trust, and continuous learning
As our CTG Champion, you will have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the care and experiences of our patients. If you are a motivated and skilled midwife who is passionate about foetal monitoring and clinical excellence, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity!
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Degree / Diploma in Midwifery
- Leadership Course
Professional Registration
Essential criteria- UK NMC Registered Midwife
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria- Excellent knowledge of antenatal/intrapartum fetal monitoring
- Awareness of the SBL Bundle & EBC
- Robust evidence of CPD
- Teaching / Presentation Experience
- Attended CTG masterclass training
- Audit experience
- QI experience
Skills
Essential criteria- Leadership Skills
- Excellent Communication & Interperson Skills
- Time management & Organisation Skills
- Team Working Skills
- Ability to provide antenatal & intrapartum care
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.
We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met).As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact [email protected]
For posts advertised on a fixed term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed term contracts will be only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.
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Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should we receive sufficient applications or if it is filled via the internal redeployment process.
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