Diabetes Midwife

The post holder will ensure

Women receive sensitive, appropriate and individualised care based on the best available evidence and according to existing hospital policy.

Ensure 'best practice' is disseminated to multi-disciplinary colleagues.

Provide leadership, expertise and training to midwives, medical and support staff.

Ensure the provision of a safe and high quality Diabetic midwifery service providing a comprehensive range of health education, psychological and social care advice to women in a hospital setting.

To provide effective clinical and professional leadership to all midwives, support staff, students and the multidisciplinary team working within the diabetes service.

Contribute to the multi-professional team in ensuring delivery of care to improve outcomes for women and their babies with diabetes.

Be actively involved in the education of women, midwifery support and insulin management.

Take responsibility for the management, education and care of diabetic women.

Attend combined antenatal/diabetes clinic and act a resource for women and staff throughout the maternity services

Provide education for other Midwives in all aspects of diabetes care during pregnancy, intra-partum and postnatal periods.

Monitoring and evaluating of the diabetes service

Work in collaboration with the Deputy Head and Head of Midwifery, lead Obstetrician and other key members of the team to ensure pathways of care reflect best practice and are women centred.

Demonstrate organisational skills to manage area of responsibility effectively and efficiently.

Provide visible clinical leadership and direct line management for all the maternity diabetic team including roster management, failsafe procedures and optimisation of clinical pathway delivery.

Attends and participates in inter departmental meetings both clinical and non-clinical.

Be aware of current research in diabetes care and aid in active participation where opportunity allows.

Develop and deliver high quality training for the maternity workforce in line with core competency frameworks and local learning needs analysis

Work in collaboration with the maternal medicine lead to support care and oversight of services for women with pre-existing diabetes

Refer as appropriate any women to the multidisciplinary team, ensuring distinct roles and responsibilities within the workforce

Assist with review and support of the women with diabetes in pregnancy in the clinical areas including intrapartum, inpatient and postnatal care.

Work with the outpatient lead midwives and matron to provide leadership within the diabetic and antenatal clinics

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job

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