Midwife - Diabetes Continuity Team

Nhs View All Jobs; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting enthusiastic and experienced midwives to join a continuity team supporting women with diabetes in pregnancy across antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care. The role covers multiple birth settings and on-call duties.

You will promote personalised care plans, education, and health promotion, with a focus on safe, high-quality care and effective teamwork within a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• NMC registration in good standing with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• Mentorship qualification (B6) or willingness to work towards after 18 months in post (B5).
• Evidence of continuing education and up-to-date training and appraisal.

Responsibilities

• Assist and support the lead midwife in care area management and staff supervision.
• Deliver and coordinate care following professional practice and guidelines.
• Maintain high standards of midwifery care and safety for patients and families.
• Communicate effectively with the multidisciplinary team and external organisations.

Skills

Communication

Listening

Teamwork

Job description

We are looking for enthusiastic and experienced midwives to join our highly motivated continuity team supporting women with diabetes in pregnancy. The Tulip Team provide continuity of care in the Antenatal, Intrapartum and Postnatal periods. The team work a variety of shifts including day and night on call cover. You will have a reassuring style that inspires confidence and promotes our range of services to the families you are supporting. You will be an excellent communicator, who is also great at listening to women, birthing people and their families, helping them to achieve a high quality, positive and safe experience through the development of personalised care plans. You will have the chance to work in all areas of our service, including our freestanding and alongside birth centres, obstetric delivery suite, maternity assessment suite, antenatal clinics, community services, home birth team, antenatal and postnatal ward, and theatre. You will also have the chance to work closely with our specialist teams who love helping our team members flourish, including our enhanced support midwifery team, antenatal screening team, research and development team, rainbow team, diabetes specialist continuity of carer team, and our digital team. You'll help support & guide our students & maternity support workers too.

Duties

• Assist and support the lead midwife in the safe, effective management of the area including management of personnel, facilities and the associated systems and processes
• Act as a role model, presenting a positive image of self, team and the organisation
• Be responsible for the delivery and co-ordination of care, through appropriate professional practice, delegation and supervision of duties carried out by less experienced staff
• Ensure a high standard of Midwifery care is delivered by self and others based on assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care to meet patients needs in accordance with agreed local and National standards and evidence based guidelines
• Set, monitor and maintain standards of care to improve the patient experience and outcome of care
• Proactively manage risk and maintain patient safety, conforming to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines
• Communicate all relevant information to the multidisciplinary team internally and with external organisations as required, to ensure seamless care
• Promote provision of education and health promotion
• Promote equality in care and practice by recognising, respecting and meeting the needs and choices of individuals
• Ensures environment of care is safe, well equipped and compliant with standards for hygiene and cleanliness

BIG PLAN

• consistently deliver excellent care
• create a great place to work
• deliver value for money
• ensure we are fit for the future
• Develop our staff to be the best they can be

Candidate Details

• Ideally, candidates would work a minimum of 33 hours per week and be either a Band 5 nearing the end of their preceptorship or a Band 6.
• Appropriate NMC Registration
• NMC recognised Mentorship qualification (B6) or willingness to work towards, following 18 months commencement in post (B5)
• Evidence of continuing education or development
• Up-to-date with all essential training and appraisal

Desirable

• Leadership course
• Management course
• NIPE qualification or willingness to work towards
• Willing to expand clinical role e.g. IV additives, venepuncture and Cannulation, Perineal suturing
• Awareness of changes within Midwifery practice
• Able to manage /treat obstetric emergencies in hospital/birth unit and community setting
• Knowledge of Clinical Governance and the relevance to practice
• Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures
• Maintains own reflective practice.
• Demonstrates effective listening skills and communication skills.
• Confident in teaching and assessing student midwives, midwives and doctors.
• Able to conduct relationships in such a way that conflict is minimalised. Demonstrates competency during internship.
• Ability to implement changes within midwifery practise.
• Knowledge of ethical issues
• Evidence clinical competence in area of speciality
• Knowledge of Leadership and management

Research and Development

We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our service users. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns. You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path. You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.