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Band 8a Lead Midwife for Diabetes

Employer
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Birmingham
Salary
£53,754 to £60,503 a year
Closing date
22 Oct 2024
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Profession
Nurse, Midwife
Grade
Band 8A
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
In partnership with the Multidisciplinary team, the post holder will lead and develop the provision of a specialist Diabetes service that plays a crucial role in improving patient outcomes through the delivery of high-quality clinical care.

The post holder will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service, providing advice, education and support to staff, patients and their families and carers. Overall managerial responsibility for a defined service of Diabetes Specialist Midwives for leading the ongoing development of clinical practice and standards of care within the service, including developing policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues. The post holder will practice autonomously within their defined speciality to provide patient-centred quality care. This will encompass the skills of advanced clinical assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice. They will ensure patients' safe treatment, referral, follow-up, and discharge within their designated speciality. Act as a specialist resource and provide specialist advice concerning the care of patients in their speciality. The post holder will provide a range of educational and training programmes for the multidisciplinary team, patients, families and carers.

This role/job plan incorporates a clinical, managerial, educational, and research component.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be professionally accountable for maintaining standards and professional practice as set by Trust Policies/Procedures, the NMC Code of Professional Standards of Practice and Behaviour, and relevant professional guidelines.

Provide expert advice to a cohort of patients referred for specialist intervention, care, and support within the services, being a point of contact for assessment, information, and advice for the patient, family and carers, and all staff involved in the patient's care.

Lead on diabetic specialist midwife practice development, including developing and/or updating clinical guidelines, policy and procedures related to the practice setting and speciality.

Lead on service development and contribute to strategic planning.

Participate in the 'on-call' senior midwifery roster for the maternity department.

Support the maintenance of appropriate KPIs for NHSLA compliance, CQC compliance, and local and national clinical governance initiatives in close collaboration with the Senior Nursing and Clinical Governance teams.

Ensure patient safety by escalating any risks with nurse staffing or service provision to the directorate management team.

Report any issues with quality and safety immediately to Head of Midwifery & Governance.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • *Registered Midwife on the NMC Register
  • *Professional knowledge acquired through degree diploma / supplemented by specialist training , experience, short courses to Masters level equivalent
  • *Non-Medical Prescribing Course or willingness to undertake where this is a requirement of the role


Desirable

  • *Advanced Life Support qualification


Experience

Essential

  • *Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC
  • *Willingness to become a practice supervisor / assessor or meets Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards for student supervision and assessment
  • *Extensive post registration experience as a Diabetic Specialist Midwife at Band 7 or above in defined or associated speciality
  • *Extensive experience of working autonomously at a specialist level
  • *Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
  • *Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of ongoing professional development/ competence.
  • *Demonstrate expert knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to speciality
  • *Experience and enthusiasm for developing educational programmes and teaching/assessing and supervising others in a clinical setting.
  • *Experience in service development
  • *Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment
  • *Experience of patient service user advocacy role
  • *Experience of resource and budgetary management
  • *Experience of leading on the writing / updating of organisational Policy / Procedure / Guidelines associated with the speciality/field
  • *Can demonstrate expert midwifery knowledge with an ability to assess, plan , implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients and give advice and information to patients/relatives/care staff
  • *Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context relating to the speciality and can translate this in to local practice reflected in organisational policy/procedure and service delivery
  • *Has understanding/experience of the principles of Safeguarding
  • *Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance


Desirable

  • *Awareness of current research related to the speciality


Additional Criteria

Essential

  • *Ability to adapt behaviour to changing circumstances
  • *Positive and enthusiastic attitude
  • *Ability to communicate articulately and motivate others
  • *Evidence of flexible and innovative approach to service delivery and development
  • *Ability to work a varied shift pattern where required and across UHB sites
  • *Ability to act on own initiative


Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

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304-56852PM

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