Job overview
As a Band 6 Diabetes Specialist Midwife you will provide high quality and safe midwifery care to women, birthing people and their families whose pregnancy is complicated by diabetes. You will be willing to develop a high level of relevant, expert knowledge and skills which you will use to manage, develop and lead care for pregnant people.
You will work alongside the Diabetes Specialist Midwife Lead and in partnership with the multi-disciplinary team to coordinate care based on a patient’s individual needs, providing a link between the maternity service and the other services involved in diabetes care.
You may be required to deputise for the Band 7 Diabetes Specialist Midwife and will be expected to act as a resource for diabetes specialist knowledge to other members of the multidisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
The Band 6 Diabetes Midwife will bring specialist knowledge and clinical expertise in both midwifery and diabetes care, supporting women with pre-existing and gestational diabetes throughout their pregnancy journey. You will demonstrate excellent communication skills, providing clear education, advice, and reassurance to women and their families to promote safe self-management and positive outcomes. You will work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team, including obstetricians, endocrinologists, and diabetes specialist nurses, to ensure a seamless and holistic approach to care. The role will also bring a proactive contribution to service development, supporting audit, quality improvement initiatives, and staff training to continually enhance the quality and safety of maternity services
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
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“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
1. Active UK NMC PIN in Midwifery
2. Degree level qualification or equivalent in Midwifery
3. PROMPT or other relevant emergency skills qualification
4. Evidence of preceptorship programme completion
Desirable criteria
5. Level 3 Safeguarding Training
6. Experience of working with diabetes
Knowledge/Training/Experience
Essential criteria
7. Practice Supervisor / Assessor qualification
Desirable criteria
8. Computer literate
9. Exposure to pregnant patients with diabetes and diabetic pathways
Employer certification / accreditation badges