Lead Diabetes Specialist Midwife

2 weeks ago


Warwick, United Kingdom South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Diabetes in pregnancy increases the risk of serious health complications to women and their babies. The diabetes team at South Warwickshire Foundation Trust (SWFT) help to support women with diabetes to greatly reduce these risks. Are you a midwife who is interested in joining the diabetes team and improve outcomes for women? If so, we are looking forward to hearing from you

We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Diabetes Specialist Midwife. You will lead the team and demonstrate expert knowledge, under pinned by evidence-based practice.

**Main duties of the job**:
The post holder will be responsible for the co-ordination and oversight of the diabetes service within maternity.

Together with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) they will develop and provide appropriate programmes of care for pregnant women who have diabetes.

Education is a key aspect of this role and the post holder will be required to deliver training to support staff so that they are competent to provide care to women with diabetes.

The post holder will also be required to work with the MDT to develop any plans to meet any national targets such as Saving Babies Lives (SBL): version 3

SWFT are committed to obtaining the best outcomes for mothers and babies and this role will be critical in that.

There may be opportunity to increase hours during the course of this secondment

The post holder will be responsible for the co-ordination and oversight of the diabetes service within maternity. Together with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) they will develop and provide appropriate programmes of care for pregnant women who have diabetes. Education is a key aspect of this role and the post holder will be required to deliver training to support staff so that they are competent to provide care to women with diabetes. The post holder will also be required to work with the MDT to develop any plans to meet any national targets such as Saving Babies Lives (SBL): version 3

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

**Responsibilities**:
To provide clinical leadership, giving advice and support to staff as required and acting as women’s advocate at all times.

To monitor and evaluate clinical standards within the department ensuring that clinical practices are evidence based and benchmarked against best practice locally, regionally and nationally.

To ensure that all care programmes are accurately documented and that the standard of record keeping reflects the NMC and Trust guidelines for records and record keeping.

To liaise with the Deputy Head of Midwifery and department operational managers to ensure lessons learnt from complaints and feedback inform relevant governance processes.

To act as an autonomous practitioner to provide highly specialised advice and support to pregnant women with pre-existing diabetes, those who develop gestational diabetes their families and other health care professionals.

You will be expected to address the needs of women from different ethnic minority groups, their families and carers with respect to advice, support and educational materials provided in a variety of formats to meet their needs.

Demonstrate expert knowledge of and practice in the use of treatment regimens during pregnancy and the immediate post-natal period.

To advise on the stabilisation of women on insulin according to locally formulated guidelines and protocols.

To support diabetic clinics and manage own caseload.

Perform antenatal checks and review ultra sound findings and discuss with the patient and obstetric/medical team as necessary.

To review antenatal and postnatal women in hospital and be available via telephone contact for the purpose of assessment, stabilisation and continuing care.

To teach women the skills necessary for home blood glucose monitoring and self-administration of insulin.

Ability to perform assessments of women’s needs and liaise with other members of the multi-disciplinary team where necessary.

To ensure that midwifery practice is appropriate for each individual woman for whom care is pr



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