Antenatal Clinic Lead Midwife

Job Overview

The Antenatal Clinic is pleased to announce a brilliant opportunity to join the team as a Band 7 Antenatal Clinic Lead at Wexham Park Hospital. This role is 15 hours a week as part of a job-share.

The successful candidate will be instrumental in delivering and maintaining a high-quality, woman-centred antenatal clinic service tailored specifically for our maternity patients. If you are committed to advancing specialist midwifery care and supporting women with high risk pregnancies, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will be a registered midwife, will act as an autonomous, accountable practitioner working on their own initiative and in collaboration with the Midwifery Matron and the wider multi-disciplinary team.
• The ANC Lead Midwife will oversee the day-to-day running of the Antenatal Clinic and will help the Trust to move forward with the Better Births and Ockenden report recommendations as well as NICE Guidance and updates from the RCOG.
• The role will involve some informal sickness management, overseeing work distribution with the team, as well as monitoring the development and training needs of midwives and their general well-being.
• Close liaison with the medical staff is essential for this post.
• The post holder will need to work closely with the digital midwives to ensure electronic documentation is included in this project as part of the implementation of the planned Electronic Patient Record (EPR).

Working for our organisation

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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Detailed Job Description And Main 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 criteria

• Registered Midwife with current NMC registration who meets revalidation standards.
• Mentorship or equivalent qualification.
• BSc (Hons) Degree or actively working towards.
• Safeguarding level 3.

Desirable criteria

• Master's degree or working towards

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Excellent written and presentation skills
• Demonstrates strong clinical leadership and influencing skills.
• Effective internet and IT skills.
• Effective communicator with experience of communicating complex and sensitive information.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of leadership and people management skills
• IT skills

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of MDT working
• Relevant post registration experience

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of participating in audit.
• Recent mentorship experience.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.

Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.

We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.

We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.

Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.

Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.

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