Diabetes Midwife

Transformation Unit; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 33.000 - 43.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Band 6 Diabetes Midwife to join the Diabetes in Pregnancy multi-disciplinary team at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. You will provide and prescribe care for diabetic/high-risk pregnancies, working closely with the Consultant units and the Diabetes Lead Midwife, ensuring high standards of maternity care.

The role emphasizes autonomous midwifery practice, risk assessment, and collaboration across services, with opportunities to develop specialist

Qualifikationen

• NMC registered midwife with current registration.
• Master's level study or equivalent.
• Teaching qualification or evidence of teaching experience.

Aufgaben

• Provide high standard midwifery care to mothers and babies during antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods.
• Take autonomous clinical decisions in emergencies to ensure safe outcomes.
• Develop and maintain clinical competencies with current service needs and evidence-based practice.
• Lead and participate in the Diabetes in Pregnancy multidisciplinary team.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Autonomous practice

Communication skills

IT literacy

Ausbildung

Master's degree or equivalent

Jobbeschreibung

Liverpool Women’s NHS FT became part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG) in November 2024, following the coming together with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT. UHLG was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide to our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, UHLG is also their local NHS, providing general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

At Liverpool Women’s Hospital, each year we deliver approximately 7,500 babies, carry out around 50,000 gynaecological inpatient and outpatient procedures, care for over 1,000 poorly and premature newborns, perform around 1,000 IVF cycles, and conduct over 4,000 genetic appointments.

We believe that this, along with a strong dedication to research and innovation, makes us the specialist health provider of choice in Europe for women, babies and families.

Liverpool Women’s has an excellent reputation and is a centre of excellence. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career for many years to come.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our maternity service for a Band 6 Diabetes Specialist Midwife. You will be working as part of the Diabetes in Pregnancy multi-disciplinary team.

You will work clinically as a Diabetes Midwife, providing and prescribing care for diabetic/high risk women through the Consultant units at Liverpool Women’s Hospital in liaison with the multidisciplinary teams and in conjunction with the Band 7 Diabetes Lead Midwife.

Main duties of the job

As a Band 6 Diabetes Midwife, you will provide high quality, safe midwifery care to women and their families whose pregnancy is complicated by Diabetes.

You will have an interest in the care of women with Diabetes in pregnancy and keen to develop a high level of relevant expert knowledge and skills, which you will use to manage, develop and lead care for pregnant women and new mothers with additional needs.

The post holder will provide direct client care and be responsible for providing extra support and care to women whose pregnancy is complicated by Diabetes in partnership with the named Diabetes Specialist Lead Midwife, and the Diabetes in Pregnancy multi-disciplinary team and external agencies.

You will work closely with women and their families to plan and coordinate their care based on their individual needs, providing a link between the maternity service and other services involved in diabetes care.

You will also assist the Diabetes Specialist Lead Midwife to ensure that high standards of quality care are delivered and maintained for women with diabetes and may need to deputise for the Band 7 DSM as required.

You will be expected to promote the use of quality improvement methods by frontline staff in order to deliver measurable improvements in patient care.

You will act as a resource of diabetes specialist knowledge to other members of the multidisciplinary team.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool Women’s NHS FT became part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG) in November 2024, following the coming together with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT. UHLG was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide to our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, UHLG is also their local NHS, providing general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

At Liverpool Women’s Hospital, each year we deliver approximately 7,500 babies, carry out around 50,000 gynaecological inpatient and outpatient procedures, care for over 1,000 poorly and premature newborns, perform around 1,000 IVF cycles, and conduct over 4,000 genetic appointments.

We believe that this, along with a strong dedication to research and innovation, makes usthe specialist health provider of choice in Europe for women, babies and families.

For roles at Liverpool University Hospitals, visit their careers page .

UKVI guidelines prohibits sponsorship for all Band 2 posts. Guidelines state that many non-clinical posts are not eligible for sponsorship. Please use UKVI guidance on Skilled Worker Visas to determine your eligibility for sponsorship if you were to gain a conditional offer for this role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provide a high standard of midwifery care to mothers and babies during the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period.

Take autonomous clinical decisions in an emergency to ensure safe outcomes for mother and baby.

Able to work as as an autonomous practitioner in all aspects of midwifery practice.

Carry out risk assessments in the hospital, birth centres and community settings and safely manage obstetric and neonatal emergencies including emergency situations when medical help is not available.

Develop and maintain clinical competencies and be aware of current advances, expectations and needs of the service.

Be responsible for the implementation of evidence-based midwifery and medical practice.

For further information, please refer to the attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

• NMC Registered Midwife
• Study at Master's level or equivalent
• Teaching qualification

Experience

• Experience of leading and delivering education in a group setting
• Teaching experience/qualification
• Ability to evaluate midwifery care. Knowledge and understanding of gestational diabetes and associated risks
• Knowledge of frameworks and guidance informing care in diabetes
• Ability to relate NMC Midwives Rules, Code of Practice, The Scope of Professional Practice, Standards for the Administration of Medicines
• Able to use appropriate language according to circumstances
• Legible, literate, grammatically accurate
• Able to work well within a team.
• Ability to use own initiative
• Ability to prioritise own workload
• Ability to manage junior staff
• Have knowledge of the Public Health Agenda
• Ability to educate parents and students
• Ability to undertake all midwifery duties within the relevant clinical area.
• IT literate
• knowledge of Clinical Governance
• Polite, reliable, honest, punctual, approachable, dependable, nonjudgemental
• Ability to adapt to new working practices
• - Ability to remain calm under pressure
• Ability to deal calmly and courteously with difficult people
• Adaptable and flexible approach to working within the Unit
• Full commitment to the job
• Able to meet the practical requirements of the post. i.e., cross site shift patterns
• Knowledge of current National Services framework/healthy hospitals initiative

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: U under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust has a responsibility and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and for ensuring that they are protected from harm. Every employee of the Trust has a responsibility and is duty bound always to act in the best interest of a child or adult about whom we may have concerns.

Trust policy requires the cost of DBS applications be recovered via salary. The amount of £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 0(enhanced) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement in post.

The Trust is committed to creating a well-managed,flexible working environment that supports staff & promotes welfare & development. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity;we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.We operate Zero Tolerance to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.We will make reasonable adjustments to ensure our recruitment & selection process is accessible to all.Flexible Working applications will be considered.

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Please Note: new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first paypoint of the relevant band.

LWH has a responsibility & is committed to safeguarding & promoting the welfare of children, young people & vulnerable adults & for ensuring that they are protected from harm. Every employee of the Trust has a responsibility & is duty bound always to act in the best interest of a child or adult about whom we may have concerns.

Liverpool Women’s Hospital is committed to having a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve. To this end, we particularly welcome applicants from racially minoritised backgrounds, who have a disability, or are members of the Armed Forces, Reservists or Veterans.

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