Royal London Hospital site - Barts Health NHS Trust has an exciting opportunity for a midwife with Specialist interest in Maternity Services to support the delivery of the diabetes services.

We aim to ensure that women are at the core of everything we do, and we wrap her care providers, and birth supporters around her as required rather than moving the women to achieve different acuity pathways. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, highly motivated and enthusiastic midwife to come and join our diabetes team.

You will have an enthusiasm for all aspects of midwifery care, antenatal care, fetal monitoring, intrapartum care and postnatal care. You will have the ability to work closely with the multidisciplinary team to deliver training, support students, new midwives, doctors, audit and quality improvement.

To be the Midwifery lead on the development, coordination, and implementation of the Specialist Diabetic Service within the Maternity Directorate in conjunction with the Obstetric and diabetes Lead. Develop specialist programmers of evidence based care for women with diabetes and ensure that individual care is appropriately planned, implemented and evaluated.

To provide expert, clinical and professional specialist advice on the care of women who require pre-conceptual, those with diabetes or those that develop diabetes during pregnancy.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide effective leadership to the diabetes/pregnancy team and act as lead midwife on diabetes in maternity services.

The post holder will work collaboratively with the other diabetes team members contribute to the education and the professional development of staff in the acute and primary care setting.

He/she will be actively involved in client/family education, supporting midwives and GP's to provide on-going antenatal care and planning care for clients.

The post holder will be responsible for auditing, monitoring and evaluating the service provided

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience across the whole spectrum of pregnancy pathway including normal and complex needs, covering both hospital and community based care
• A minimum of three years as a midwife
• Specialist knowledge and experience of diabetes management in pregnancy
• Current knowledge of National guidelines, standards and recommendations impacting on maternity services including NICE Diabetes guideline 2015, Diabetes Strategy for Adults, Super 6 model
• Ability to counsel women and give advice within specialist area of practice e.g. pregnant women with Type 1 diabetes
• Proven experience of effective working in a multidisciplinary setting
• Ability to work as part a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to provide formal teaching development to staff/colleague
• Mentorship experience
• Ability to evaluate effectiveness of learning activities and identifies how it could be improved
• Report Writing Skills
• Presentation Skills
• IT Literate (MS WP/Excel & PowerPoint)
• Change Management
• Innovative Practice
• Research and Audit

Skills

Essential

• Effective presentation skills
• Effective organisation skills
• Proven leadership skills
• Knowledge and understanding of gestational diabetes and associated risks
• Able to lead, develop and motivate staff
• Resilient and confident in adverse situations
• Innovative and creative in the development of new approaches to care and systems of working Excellent time management skills
• Able to challenge current practises in a non-threatening manner
• Possess general computing skills
• Ability to devise and deliver training
• Ability to work with little supervision

Knowledge

Essential

• Leads in the development of the service and local patient care policies/procedures across the Trust within the specialist area of practice
• Experiences of taking forth service developments,
• monitoring and evaluation of effectiveness
• Ability to coach and motivate staff to accept change and service development
• Ability to comply with Trust's policies
• Ability to travel between the Trust sites as required
• Excellent communication skills
• Willingness to professionally develop
• Can demonstrate an enthusiastic, approachable and friendly manner.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both written and oral
• Up to date with Public health national and local maternity guidance

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level (appropriate subject) or equivalent experience to demonstrate competency at all levels
• Registered Midwife with current NMC registration
• Commitment to professional development
• Registered Midwife qualified to degree level
• ENB 998/997 or equivalent
• ENB 928 or similar current diabetes course
• Masters or evidence of significant post registration education

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Royal London Hospital

London

E1 1FR

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259-6622673RLH