Job summary
- Main area
- Women and Children Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 328-WAC-6391335
- Employer
- South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The James Cook University Hospital
- Town
- Middlesbrough
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Diabetes Specialist Midwife
Band 7
Job overview
The Diabetes Specialist Midwife (DSM) is part of the multidisciplinary team providing and coordinating the care for maternity service users with pre-existing and gestational diabetes within STHFT. The post holder will be a point of contact for maternity service users with preexisting diabetes and those who develop gestational diabetes in pregnancy.
The DSM will be responsible for the support and advice on both diabetes control and midwifery care throughout pregnancy and postnatal period liaising closely with the diabetes specialist nurses, dietitians and consultants specialising in antenatal care.
The DSM will be involved in the development and implementation of clinical protocols and guidelines for maternity service users with diabetes and will work towards developing a structured approach in diabetes care to ensure a comprehensive high quality diabetes service within maternity. The DSM will be expected to undertake clinical audit and provide educational support for healthcare professionals and students and be involved in research projects.
This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.
Main duties of the job
To undertake assessments, provide support, education, and advice for maternity service users with pre-existing or gestational diabetes and their families to supplement the care provided by their midwives where necessary, for example working with maternity service users and their midwives to develop individual care plans, and making referrals to additional specialist support where required.
- To accept and triage referrals and prioritise appropriately.
- To review and discuss results from blood glucose monitoring database and prioritise care accordingly.
- Work closely with the Consultant Obstetrician specialising in Diabetes, Consultant Endocrinologist, Diabetes Specialist Nurse and dieticians, in planning, implementing and delivering programmes of care for women with diabetes.
- To provide specialist support and advice for both maternity service users and healthcare professionals on diabetes management in labour and arrange postnatal follow-up care.
- To empower pregnant maternity service users with diabetes to make informed decisions regarding their condition and guide them towards a normal lifestyle detecting and preventing complications for mother and babies, using both verbal and written patient information.
- To continue to develop own diabetes knowledge, competence, and skill level and to keep up to date with continuing changes in diabetes care and research through regular clinical supervision, appraisal, personal development plans and appropriate training programmes.
Working for our organisation
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:
- Explore leadership within the NHS
- Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
- Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
- Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- • Proven abilities in cross professional working and liaison
- • Understanding of clinical risk management and clinical governance
- • Act as a role model demonstrating exemplary skills
- • Flexible, highly motivated, and supportive of others
- • Proven Leadership skills
- • Ability to develop excellent working relationships with all staff within the organisation and external partners
- • Strong organisational and planning skills
- • Willing to develop new skills including completing appropriate training as required
- • Ability to adapt written and verbal communication skills to the audience
- • Ability to undertake a wide range of work procedures without direct supervision
- • Ability to analyse data and produce required reports and information
- • Emotional resilience and able to escalate should further support be required
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- • Registered Midwife
- • Degree in Midwifery.
- • ENB 997/998 or equivalent/mentorship qualification
- • Ability to teach evidence-based practice.
- • Demonstrable evidence of continuing professional education and development as per NMC requirements.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience and understanding of diabetes
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- • Working with midwives and obstetricians to improve knowledge and skills relating to diabetes in pregnancy
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lynne Staite
- Job title
- Head of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01642 850850
- Additional information
Ext: 53772
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
The Recruitment Team
The Murray Building
The James Cook University Hospital
TS4 3BW
- Telephone
- 01642 850850, ext. 57396
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