Diabetes Specialist Midwife

North Cheshire And Mersey Nhs Foundation Trust; Warrington; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Band 7 Specialist Midwife to lead diabetes-in-pregnancy pathways within our maternity services. The role focuses on providing expert clinical leadership, education, and pathway development to women with pre-existing and gestational diabetes throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period.

The post holder will work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team, promoting evidence-based practice and quality improvement

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with current NMC registration.
• Experience in diabetes in pregnancy or specialist diabetes care.
• Proven ability to lead and teach multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead on standardised pathways of care for diabetes in pregnancy.
• Develop and implement MDT diabetes in pregnancy pathways and promote best practice.
• Provide enhanced teaching and support to staff on diabetes in pregnancy.
• Contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.

Skills

Diabetes in pregnancy expertise

Clinical leadership

Education and training

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

NMC Registered Midwife

Mentorship/teaching qualification

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 7 Specialist Midwife to lead and develop diabetes-in-pregnancy pathways within our maternity services.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and motivated midwife with a passion for diabetes care to provide specialist, evidence-based care to women with pre-existing and gestational diabetes throughout pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.

The post holder will provide expert clinical leadership, specialist advice and education, whilst contributing to the ongoing development and improvement of the diabetes maternity service. Working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary maternity and diabetes teams, the post holder will support the delivery of high-quality, personalised care and help to improve outcomes and experiences for women and their babies.

The successful candidate will be a confident and autonomous practitioner with excellent clinical, communication and leadership skills, able to influence and support colleagues. You will play a key role in promoting evidence-based practice, developing clinical pathways, supporting education and training, and contributing to quality improvement and service development.

If you are an experienced midwife looking for an opportunity to lead, innovate and make a real difference to the care of women with diabetes in pregnancy, we would welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

To lead on SBLCBv3 for element 6:

• Ensuring there are standardised pathways of care for MDT management of women with diabetes in pregnancy.
• Improving management of glucose control during pregnancy by focusing support on high-risk women and by ensuring consistent and high levels of uptake of digital glucose monitoring technology.
• Be an autonomous practitioner within the team.
• Refer as appropriate to the multidisciplinary team.
• Assist with review of women with diabetes in pregnancy across all areas.
• Comply with Trust Policies regarding conduct and performance.
• To work with our senior midwifery team in the development of a safety culture.
• Provide, on a regular basis, constructive and positive feedback. Identify and disseminate learning from outcomes.
• To work in collaboration with colleagues throughout the service to ensure safe birth outcomes.
• Act as a role model demonstrating clinical leadership and midwifery expertise.
• Provide enhanced teaching and additional support to staff to gain relevant competencies.
• Assist with investigation of incidents, implementing any recommendations in line with the PSIRF model.
• Promote evidence-based practice throughout the maternity service.
• Work with the midwifery management and education team towards achieving corporate standards as well as meeting the relevant national and local criteria.

About us

Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM). They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation

Our mission is to be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other

Our vision is to be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn

Our approach to healthcare is founded on our four core values:

• Kind - we are caring, supporting and respectful to everyone
• Open - we are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working
• Fair - we listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all
• One team - we work well together and with our communities

We employ almost 6,500 people from more than 80 nationalities and are fully committed to being an equal, diverse and inclusive employer. Our culture and values ensure that everyone is treated with dignity and respect, and that no job applicant or employee is disadvantaged at any stage of their journey.

We are also proud to be an Armed Forces Friendly organisation and welcome applications from members of the Armed Forces community, including veterans, reservists and families.

Working at NCM means becoming part of a dedicated team of clinical and support staff who are passionate about keeping people well and supporting wellbeing. If you share our values and are motivated by making a difference for our patients, we'd be delighted to receive your application

Job responsibilities

Please see job description and person specification for full role responsibilities and requirements

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife with current NMC registration
• Recognised teaching/assessing qualification/mentorship

Desirable

• Relevant specialty related qualification/module
• Study at master's level
• V300 Non-Medical Prescribing

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 3 years clinical post registration experience in Midwifery
• Worked in specialist diabetic role or has speciality knowledge and experience
• Current clinical experience in acute hospital /Community setting.
• Experience of providing formal teaching development to staff /colleagues
• Experience of working as part of the multidisciplinary team

Desirable

• Experience of audit/research
• Experience of guideline development
• Evidence of implementing change in clinical practice

Skills

Essential

• Expert Knowledge in Diabetes
• Ability to analyses problems and implements appropriate solutions.
• Knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
• Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills

Desirable

• Ability to critically analyse data.
• An understanding of the key issues and challenges in Saving Babies Lives care bundle V3.
• Effective leadership skills

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).