Diabetes Specialist Midwife

1 week ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Band 6 Specialist Diabetes Midwife Antenatal Services Oxford Road

Saint Mary's Hospital Managed Clinical Service is the largest maternity service in the country providing care for women across Manchester, its surrounding areas and the North West. Saint Mary's Hospital is a well-known centre of excellence with a vibrant and lively working atmosphere. We currently have exciting opportunities in Midwifery to include care across the pregnancy continuum including the Manchester Birth Centre and as part of our continuity of care pathway. We provide intrapartum care in all settings from home birth, co-located birth centre to a complex consultant led delivery unit with an integrated high dependency unit.

To join us, you will be an experienced Band 6 Registered Midwife with a desire to specialise in Antenatal services. You'll find working with us extremely rewarding as part of a team dedicated to providing the best possible care and experience to all our patients. You'll be joining our Trust at an exciting time as we grow and improve our services, and you will be able to make a positive contribution to its future success.

To support your career, we offer a wide range of development and educational initiatives that will assist your career here at MFT.

Main duties of the job

Diabetes Specialist Midwife

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Band 6 Midwife to support the Diabetes service at Oxford Road site, permanent hours.

The successful post holder will provide expert, specialist knowledge and resources for diabetic women during their pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal period, supporting the existing and expanding diabetes service.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £ & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at .Were looking forward to hearing from you

Person Specification

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

Essential

Evidence of multidisciplinary/multi agency working Able to effectively communicate Registered Midwife Knowledge of Diabetes Experience of clinical audit

Desirable

Interest in diabetes in pregnancy

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