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Lead Midwife for Fetal Medicine
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust View all jobs
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Job summary
Do you have experience in Fetal Medicine? Are you ready to progress your leadership and management skills?
This advert is for a part time (0.8WTE) Band 7 Lead Midwife for Fetal Medicine at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will be an experienced Midwife responsible for the delivery of Fetal Medicine services at St Michael's Hospital. Applicants will be existing Band 6/7 practising Midwives who will lead and work as members of the multidisciplinary team within the maternity service across Bristol and Weston. They will act as an expert resource and role model for the multi-disciplinary team, maternity service, division and trust.
Main duties of the job
- Demonstrate highly technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including; administration of invasive tests and procedures.
- To have on-going responsibility for the clinical area, recognising changing priorities and implementing corrective actions to accommodate changing service needs, planning, implementing and evaluating the specialist care for antenatal clients. Along with ensuring adequate, safe staffing levels.
- Be visible, assertive, coordinating all aspects of patient care and staff management.
- To participate in the maternity Flow rota.
About us
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations,operatingfrom three main sites at Southmead, Bristol citycentreand Weston.
With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that theSouth Westhas to offer.
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.
Details
Date posted
05 October 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
387-W&C5743-GE
Job locations
St Michaels Hospital
Southwell Street
Bristol
BS2 8EG
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Degree qualification or equivalent
- Teaching/Mentoring qualification and evidence of teaching skills
- Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation
- Child protection training
Experience - Desirable
Desirable
- Experience in operating laser and assisting with fetoscopic laser photocoagulation and other procedures required within FMU
- Ability to perform and interpret basic ultrasound assessment
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Can build effective working relationships with staff at all levels across different teams in the hospital and across the region (including neonatal, gynaecology, fetal medicine, delivery suite, patient safety and psychology) to co-ordinate patient care
- Ability to work across a variety of digital platforms, and collate and analyse data for pregnancy outcomes
- Can work independently as an autonomous practitioner as well as part of the MDT and be organised in the practice environment.
- Be actively engaged in service development, commissioning, and provision of complex care pathways.
- Can demonstrate leadership / management Skills
- Ability to initiate change
- Ability to facilitate development in others
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent communication / Interpersonal skills
- Motivated and enthusiastic
- Sympathetic and supportive attitude
- Flexibility to meet the daily needs of the job
- Supportive
- Collaborative
- Respectful
- Innovative
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience
- Experience of working within Fetal Medicine
- Experience in clinical procedures specific to Fetal Medicine Unit
Desirable
- Extended clinical midwifery skills
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Degree qualification or equivalent
- Teaching/Mentoring qualification and evidence of teaching skills
- Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation
- Child protection training
Experience - Desirable
Desirable
- Experience in operating laser and assisting with fetoscopic laser photocoagulation and other procedures required within FMU
- Ability to perform and interpret basic ultrasound assessment
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Can build effective working relationships with staff at all levels across different teams in the hospital and across the region (including neonatal, gynaecology, fetal medicine, delivery suite, patient safety and psychology) to co-ordinate patient care
- Ability to work across a variety of digital platforms, and collate and analyse data for pregnancy outcomes
- Can work independently as an autonomous practitioner as well as part of the MDT and be organised in the practice environment.
- Be actively engaged in service development, commissioning, and provision of complex care pathways.
- Can demonstrate leadership / management Skills
- Ability to initiate change
- Ability to facilitate development in others
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent communication / Interpersonal skills
- Motivated and enthusiastic
- Sympathetic and supportive attitude
- Flexibility to meet the daily needs of the job
- Supportive
- Collaborative
- Respectful
- Innovative
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience
- Experience of working within Fetal Medicine
- Experience in clinical procedures specific to Fetal Medicine Unit
Desirable
- Extended clinical midwifery 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St Michaels Hospital
Southwell Street
Bristol
BS2 8EG
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.uhbw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St Michaels Hospital
Southwell Street
Bristol
BS2 8EG
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.uhbw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)