Meet the Maternity Team

Our Maternity team is made up of a variety of staff who all have a unique part to play in your pregnancy journey.

Please click see below for more information about the different roles in our team.

Midwifery staff

Midwife Naomi Poole Midwives

Our midwives provide most of the care for women during their pregnancy and birth. They work in all of our departments including:

  • community
  • specialist teams, e.g. diabetes
  • antenatal clinic
  • Sanctuary Birth Centre
  • Labour Suite
  • hospital wards

We also have a team of midwife sonographers working in our antenatal clinics. Their role is to perform ultrasound scans to monitor the growth of your baby during your pregnancy if needed.

Support staff photo Midwifery Support Workers

Our Midwifery Support Workers (MSWs) help the midwives and obstetricians in both the community and hospital, including clinics, labour suite and the wards.

Their roles include performing observations, blood tests, assisting you with feeding and bathing your baby.

Student Midwives

Our student midwives work in all of our departments. They will be supervised in their work by a qualified midwife.

 

Senior Midwives

Senior midwiveswork across all of our settings. 

Their role includes providing care during pregnancy. They also have additional responsibilities such as leading their team and coordinating the shift. Some senior midwives also have special interests or qualifications, including prescribing medication and performing ultrasounds. 

Matrons  Fiona Wallis Matron

The role of the matron is to provide professional, clinical and managerial leadership within the department, ensuring both safe and high standards of clinical care.

The matron will provide visible and clinical presence within the clinical areas and be responsible for leading the provision of high quality care, ensuring that the needs of women and their families are placed at the centre.

Our matrons help to ensure our service meets NUH and National standards for clinical quality, safety and patient experience.

Doctors

Obstetric Doctors

Obstetric doctors image Within NUH Maternity our obstetric doctors work according to 4 levels of seniority:

  • Tier 1: These doctors may be in the first two years of their training in obstetrics, foundation training, general practice (GP) training, or in a non-training post. They are supervised in the care they provide by more senior doctors.
  • Tier 2: Our team of tier 2 doctors have at least 2 years experience in caring for pregnant women.
  • Tier 3: These professionals have at least 5 years experience in obstetrics. They have all completed their specialist qualification in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (MRCOG)
  • Consultants: Doctors who have gained their Certificate of Completion of Specialist training, are on the specialist register and who have been appointed by the trust to a consultant post.

If you would like to see our list of Obstetric doctors please download the document below:

List of obstetric doctors.pdf[pdf] 137KB

Anaesthetic Doctors

Anaesthetic Doctors are used in all stages of patient care and there is always one present on the labour wards.

They provide and will discuss options for pain relief in labour. They will also be present to provide anaethetic for any other obstetric procedure. 

Other ward staff

Physiotherapists

Our physiotherapists offer services to support you during your pregnancy and after the birth of your baby.

Any pregnant woman can access these during pregnancy or take part in exercise classes offered by the team.

Please see the Physiotherapy page for further information.

Sonographers

Our sonographers perform the dating and anomaly scans that you are offered as part of your routine pregnancy care.

If you require additional scans during your pregnancy, these will also be performed by a sonographer, for example: 

  • To check the position of the placenta
  • Monitor growth in twin pregnancy
  • If you have fibroids.

Neonatologists and Hearing Screeners

These staff carry out the newborn infant and paediatric examinations on our postnatal wards. 

Receptionists 

Our reception staff welcome you to our wards, clinics and labour suite.

Research staff

At NUH Maternity we have a variety of research taking place within the department, aiming to improve outcomes and experience for women and their babies.

Our research staff may approach you to discuss joining one of our clinical trials.

Domestic staff

Our domestic and housekeeping staff maintain cleanliness in our hospitals to a high standard. They also help with serving food on the wards.