About this role
Job summary
Lead Midwife for Perinatal Optimisation
Band 7 | 37.5 Hours | Permanent at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Are you an experienced and passionate midwife looking to make a real impact on maternity outcomes? We are seeking an ambitious and motivated Lead Midwife for Perinatal Optimisation to join our dynamic maternity team at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal leadership role in shaping and advancing services focused on the prevention and management of preterm birth, helping to improve outcomes for women, babies, and families across our communities.
Working across both of our maternity sites -- Frimley Park Hospital and Wexham Park Hospital -- you will lead on the implementation and coordination of evidence-based perinatal optimisation pathways for women identified as being at increased risk of preterm labour and birth.
You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams including obstetricians, antenatal screening services, neonatal teams, and external partners to deliver high-quality, compassionate, and woman-centred care. This role offers the opportunity to influence practice, drive innovation, and support continuous improvement within maternity services.
Main duties of the job
The Lead Midwife for Perinatal Optimisation is responsible for providing expert clinical leadership across maternity services to improve perinatal outcomes, with a primary focus on preterm birth prevention and management and fetal growth surveillance. The post holder will lead on service coordination, quality improvement, audit, and education, and will ensure effective implementation of elements of the NHS England Saving Babies' Lives Care Bundle, particularly: Element 5 - Reducing Preterm Birth. Element 2 - Fetal Growth Restriction. As postholder you will: Ensure appropriate identification, monitoring and management of women at risk of preterm birth and/or fetal growth restriction. Provide specialist clinical leadership to embed evidence based fetal growth surveillance and preterm birth pathways within maternity services. Work collaboratively with antenatal screening, ultrasound, obstetric, neonatal, patient safety and quality teams to deliver safe, high quality, personalised care. Contribute to the reduction of stillbirth, preterm birth and neonatal morbidity through implementation of national guidance and local improvement initiatives. This is an experienced midwifery role requiring continued post registration professional development.
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Job description Job responsibilities
For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered Midwife currently on NMC register Evidence of CPD
Desirable
Qualification for cervical length measurement by ultrasound
Experience Essential
Significant post registration experience (experience as Band 6) Broad range of clinical midwifery experience
Desirable
Experience in guideline development and implementation Experience in research and audit Experience of implementing and influencing clinical governance processes
Skills & Knowledge Essential
Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise work load effectively Up-to-date knowledge base of this specialist area Excellent written skills. Effective internet and IT skills Excellent communication skills. Leadership skills.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address Frimley Park Hospital in Camberley & Wexham Park Hospital in Slough
Portsmouth Road
Frimley, Camberley
GU16 7UJ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)