Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the team at Chelsea & Westminster Maternity Service (part of Chelsea and Westminster NHS Hospitals) as a Band 6 Midwife for the diabetic service.
The successful post holder will work closely with the multidisciplinary team to provide a high standard of personalised and evidence based care to women with diabetes throughout pregnancy and beyond. Key working relationships will include the obstetric, endocrine and nursing teams alongside other supportive and allied healthcare professionals and organisations.
Key components of the role are the running of both face to face and virtual clinics, diabetes app management (harnessing technology to support the provision of timely care to women), education for both staff and women to support positive pregnancy experiences and optimum health, care pathway navigation, care planning for pregnancy, labour and birth and audit/shared learning and MDT presentations.
Applicants are expected to have experience in working within midwifery.
Are you motivated, enthusiastic, hard-working and holistic in your care of women and their families with medically more complex needs? Are you interested in promoting optimum health in both the long and short term, whilst supporting women to achieve positive pregnancy outcomes?
Main duties of the job
The Band 6 Midwife for diabetes will be an integral part of the service driving forward the diabetes in pregnancy, birth and the postnatal safety initiatives and supporting a culture of individualised care that promotes a safe and positive pregnancy and birth experience.
The post holder will be passionate and experienced in working with women with diabetes, providing direct maternity care to these women in conjunction with the Lead Diabetes Midwife, Obstetricians, Diabetes consultants, Diabetic Specialist Nurses, Dietician and wider multidisciplinary teams (MDT).
Working collaboratively with the individual woman the role will assess, plan, implement and coordinate their maternity care pathway. The role includes regular input on the wards and supporting the inpatient care of women.
The post holder will work autonomously and within a team. This role also incorporates training and education of the healthcare professionals in the management and care of women with Diabetes in Pregnancy.
Responsible for the operational management of the service and ensure staff have adequate support to enable them to focus on their core responsibilities.
The individual will undertake the key functions of the band 6 role, ensuring the women's and birthing people's experience is of the highest possible standard at all times, with particular emphasis on the provision of dignified and compassionate care, which is delivered in a safe and clean environment.
About us
We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.
We have over 6,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We're one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
In 2020 Trust was rated by the Care Quality Commission as Outstanding in the well-led and use of resources domains and Good in the safe, effective, caring, and responsive domains. The Trust as a whole was Good, but the Chelsea site was Outstanding.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Level of Clinical Responsibility
- Provide specialist clinical support to for the diabetes in pregnancy service.
- Support delivery of the education package to enable women to undertake blood glucose monitoring and recording of this with an application such as the GDM-Health app.
- Organise follow up visits and triaging of women who are on-boarded onto the GDM-health app.
- Refer as appropriate any women to the multidisciplinary team,
- Assist with review of the women with diabetes in pregnancy in all inpatient and outpatient clinical areas as required.
- Any other duties as may be deemed reasonable by the line manager.
- To ensure the provision of safe, high quality care and treatment for all patients which is delivered within agreed standards, protocols and guidelines.
- To ensure that the standard of clinical documentation is maintained and that this audited in line with Trust guidelines.
- To identify opportunities for the team to develop their roles and scope of practice to meet the evolving needs of patients and the service.
- To ensure clinical representation in appropriate Trust forums and working groups and the dissemination of information across the service in relation to diabetes.
Administrative and Management Responsibilities
- Work at all times according to regulations as described in ICH Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and to the most current guidance relating to research governance and research ethics in the hospital(s).
- Be highly organised and maintain/develop systems to maximize administrative effectiveness.
- Be responsible for the acquisition of records and thorough, high quality data entry.
- Ensure data is entered in appropriate database.
- Attend team, local and or national meetings as necessary.
Service Development and Improvement
- Maintain sustainability of the GDm-Health app.
- Monitor KPIs set by the project protocol and report as directed to the maternity collective improvement group.
Responsibility for handling difficult/emotional situations.
- The workload will be variable in timing and site, there will be a need to attend specific clinical areas to review women with diabetes in pregnancy. This is likely to include delivery suite, antenatal wards and clinics.
- Ability to work sensitively with women, including those who are distressed, bereaved or unwell.
- Be able to use judgements involving complex facts relating to high risk pregnancies which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of range of options, prior to approaching patients.
- Plan the care and support of patients according to project protocols, and to monitor responses throughout the project.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Level of Clinical Responsibility
- Provide specialist clinical support to for the diabetes in pregnancy service.
- Support delivery of the education package to enable women to undertake blood glucose monitoring and recording of this with an application such as the GDM-Health app.
- Organise follow up visits and triaging of women who are on-boarded onto the GDM-health app.
- Refer as appropriate any women to the multidisciplinary team,
- Assist with review of the women with diabetes in pregnancy in all inpatient and outpatient clinical areas as required.
- Any other duties as may be deemed reasonable by the line manager.
- To ensure the provision of safe, high quality care and treatment for all patients which is delivered within agreed standards, protocols and guidelines.
- To ensure that the standard of clinical documentation is maintained and that this audited in line with Trust guidelines.
- To identify opportunities for the team to develop their roles and scope of practice to meet the evolving needs of patients and the service.
- To ensure clinical representation in appropriate Trust forums and working groups and the dissemination of information across the service in relation to diabetes.
Administrative and Management Responsibilities
- Work at all times according to regulations as described in ICH Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and to the most current guidance relating to research governance and research ethics in the hospital(s).
- Be highly organised and maintain/develop systems to maximize administrative effectiveness.
- Be responsible for the acquisition of records and thorough, high quality data entry.
- Ensure data is entered in appropriate database.
- Attend team, local and or national meetings as necessary.
Service Development and Improvement
- Maintain sustainability of the GDm-Health app.
- Monitor KPIs set by the project protocol and report as directed to the maternity collective improvement group.
Responsibility for handling difficult/emotional situations.
- The workload will be variable in timing and site, there will be a need to attend specific clinical areas to review women with diabetes in pregnancy. This is likely to include delivery suite, antenatal wards and clinics.
- Ability to work sensitively with women, including those who are distressed, bereaved or unwell.
- Be able to use judgements involving complex facts relating to high risk pregnancies which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of range of options, prior to approaching patients.
- Plan the care and support of patients according to project protocols, and to monitor responses throughout the project.
Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Diploma in Higher Education
Desirable
- Post Registration qualification relevant to area of specialty or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential
- Working experience in a clinical environment relevant to high risk pregnancies
- Working experience in antenatal care provision
- Experience of a patient centred approach to the delivery of care
Desirable
- Previous experience of audit and quality initiatives
- Previous experience of service improvement and participation in research
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of issues surrounding diabetes in pregnancy
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives and members of the multidisciplinary team
- Ability to educate and support staff with health technology
- Ability to interpret patient records and extract clinical data
- Ability to make decisions, organize and prioritize
- Ability to work unsupervised and as a member of a multidisciplinary team
- Methodical approach and attention to detail and excellent administrative and organisational skills
Desirable
- Experience of data entry and validation
- Ability to use word processing, spread sheets and databases at intermediate level
- Experience of PR, fund-raising or similar enterprises to promote research recruitment
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Diploma in Higher Education
Desirable
- Post Registration qualification relevant to area of specialty or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential
- Working experience in a clinical environment relevant to high risk pregnancies
- Working experience in antenatal care provision
- Experience of a patient centred approach to the delivery of care
Desirable
- Previous experience of audit and quality initiatives
- Previous experience of service improvement and participation in research
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of issues surrounding diabetes in pregnancy
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives and members of the multidisciplinary team
- Ability to educate and support staff with health technology
- Ability to interpret patient records and extract clinical data
- Ability to make decisions, organize and prioritize
- Ability to work unsupervised and as a member of a multidisciplinary team
- Methodical approach and attention to detail and excellent administrative and organisational skills
Desirable
- Experience of data entry and validation
- Ability to use word processing, spread sheets and databases at intermediate level
- Experience of PR, fund-raising or similar enterprises to promote research recruitment
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).