The post is to support the existing team of obstetricians who provide high-risk antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care in a locum capacity for 12 months duration to provide specific support to the already established Diabetes, Hypertension and Cardiac high risk antenatal clinics. LWHFT currently provides services to women across Cheshire, Merseyside, and North Wales.
The current Maternal Medicine service is supported by specialist physicians and consists of multidisciplinary specialist clinics for medical disorders in pregnancy including diabetes, haematology, rheumatology, cardiology, renal and neurology and provides a weekly regional multidisciplinary team meeting and will involve a core multidisciplinary team of a lead obstetrician, lead obstetric physician, maternal medicine consultant obstetricians, specialist midwife and MDT coordinator.