Midwife - Diabetes Continuity Team

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Preston is seeking enthusiastic midwives to join the Diabetes in Pregnancy continuity team. You will support antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care across birth centres, delivery suite, clinics and community settings.

The role offers day and night shifts with on-call cover; we welcome Band 5 nearing end of preceptorship or Band 6, with a focus on personalised care plans and patient safety.

Qualifications

• Qualified midwife with active registration
• Experience in diabetes in pregnancy preferred
• Ability to develop personalised care plans with families

Responsibilities

• Provide continuity of care across antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods
• Support women, birthing people and families with high quality, safe care
• Promote evidence-based practice and multidisciplinary collaboration

Skills

Effective communication

Listening

Patient-centered care

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor of Midwifery (BM or equivalent)

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.

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.

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.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Bryony Warner Job title: Lead Midwife for Diabetes Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01772 524338