Specialist Midwives

Antenatal and Newborn Screening Lead Screening Lead Midwife 

This role is incredibly rewarding and diverse, focused on ensuring that all expectant families receive timely and accurate screening services. The Antenatal and Newborn Screening Lead  work closely with midwives, healthcare assistants, and community teams to support high-quality screening programmes that safeguard the health and wellbeing of mothers and babies. Our dedicated screening team are committed to providing guidance, education, and continuous improvement to maintain excellence in care. Together, we strive to promote early detection and intervention, making a real difference in families’ lives.

Specialist Diabetic Midwife 

The Diabetic Midwife plays a vital role in supporting pregnant women with diabetes, whether it's pre-existing or gestational. They provide specialised care tailored to the unique needs of  women and birthing people, to manage their health and well being. 

Family Experience and Inclusion Midwife

The Patient Experience and Inclusion Midwife is a specialist role within maternity services that focuses on ensuring care is safe, equitable, person-centred, and inclusive for all service users — particularly those from diverse backgrounds or with additional needs.

Health in Pregnancy Team (HiP team)

There is a HiP team to support  women living in Wiltshire to help them live healthy lives, make healthy choices & reduce inequalities. We have a small HiP team at Salisbury Maternity who are specially trained  to provide support and advice  on giving up smokers who are receiving antenatal care at Salisbury Maternity Unit.

Infant feeding Coordinators

The team are passionate about supporting mothers and their families to make the right choices for themselves regarding infant feeding. 

Bereavement Specialist Midwife

There is a dedicated Bereavement Midwife at SFT,  specially trained to offer practical guidance, information and emotional support to parents and families experiencing baby bereavement.

Named Midwife for Safeguarding Children

As keeping children safe is the responsibility of all health care professionals, all of our staff are trained in child safeguarding which includes matters such as recognition and referral of child abuse, risk factors, female genital mutilation (FGM), domestic abuse, sharing information and inter agency working. The named Midwife for Safeguarding Children acts as a point of contact should staff suspect that a child may be at risk of abuse or neglect, as well as working with identified families to ensure they have the support in place both before the birth and after their  baby is born, to enable the parent/s to provide their baby with a safe and caring environment which meets their child’s both physical and emotional needs.

Specialist Mental Health Midwife

We have a Specialist Mental Health Midwife (SMHMW) on site who is available during working hours.

They can provide support at Antenatal Clinic appointments if required. They can support women, along with the allocated community midwife, when planning care, as well as providing women with additional support on the Labour ward, Postnatal ward or on NICU if required. 

The SMHMW liaises with other support services.