Pascaline Ahey

UK NMC Registered Midwife with extensive experience across antenatal care, labour and birth, postnatal care, newborn care, maternity triage and obstetric emergency settings. Skilled in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for women and babies, including clinical observations, fetal wellbeing assessment, labour monitoring, medication administration, escalation of deterioration, MDT working and compassionate communication with women and families. Currently resident in Bradford, UK, and actively volunteering within the Women's and Newborn Unit at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, strengthening practical understanding of NHS values, patient flow, safeguarding, infection prevention, documentation and patient experience.

Completing an MSc in Leadership in Health and Social Care at the University of Bradford.

NHS Maternity Volunteer – Women's and Newborn Unit - Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Bradford, UK

(2026-02)

• Welcome and support women, families and visitors within a busy NHS maternity setting, providing directions and signposting to the correct department or service.
• Communicate calmly with anxious or distressed patients and relatives, maintaining confidentiality, professional boundaries and safeguarding awareness in line with NHS standards.
• Build practical understanding of NHS patient flow, maternity services, NHS values and safe communication in an active hospital environment.

Care Assistant - Warmest Welcome Ltd / The Borrins Care Home - Bradford, UK

(2025-12)

• Provide safe personal care, mobility support, nutrition and hydration, continence care and emotional support for residents.
• Observe residents for changes in condition (mobility, skin, swelling, urine, appetite, pain, breathing, cognition) and escalate concerns promptly to senior staff.
• Maintain accurate electronic care records in line with confidentiality, safeguarding and documentation standards; follow IPC, moving and handling, dignity and equality procedures.

Midwifery Officer / Registered Midwife - LEKMA Hospital, Ghana Health Service - Accra, Ghana

(2011-07 - 2025-08)

• Assessed pregnant women through history taking, physical examination, vital signs, urine testing, fetal wellbeing monitoring and recognition of danger signs.
• Supported women in labour through admission assessment, triage, partograph monitoring, vaginal examination, fetal heart monitoring and conducting normal births.
• Recognised and escalated complications including abnormal FHR, raised BP, eclampsia, PPH and slow labour progress; prepared women for emergency caesarean and urgent obstetric interventions.
• Provided postnatal and newborn care: maternal observations, medication support, wound care, breastfeeding support, family planning, discharge education and emotional wellbeing.
• Administered medications, documented in accordance with local policies and supported IV-related care and post-operative observations.
• Contributed to improvement of maternity emergency and triage pathways, supporting early assessment, prioritisation, escalation and preparation for urgent intervention.
• Participated in audits, clinical governance and service improvement initiatives; supported junior midwives and student midwives through supervision, teaching and mentoring.
• Worked closely with obstetric, anaesthetic, theatre, neonatal, laboratory and community MDT colleagues to deliver coordinated, safe, woman-centred care.

Bank Midwife - Banahene Specialist Hospital - Accra, Ghana

(2022-08 - 2024-12)

• Delivered maternity support across antenatal, labour, delivery and postnatal care, adapting quickly to a new clinical setting while maintaining safe, woman-centred standards.
• Assessed maternal and fetal wellbeing, escalated concerns and provided health education on pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, newborn care and danger signs.

MSc - Leadership in Health and Social Care - University of Bradford (2026)

BSc - Anaesthesia - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (2018)

Advanced Diploma - Anaesthesia - School of Anaesthesia, 37 Military Hospital (2014)

Diploma - Midwifery - Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Korle-Bu (2009)