Diabetes Midwife

Job description

Job summary

We are seeking a passionate, dedicated, and skilled Specialist Midwife to join our dynamic Multidisciplinary Team (MDT). In this role, you will provide high-quality, evidence-based care to individuals with pre-existing or gestational diabetes. Working part-time within our busy Antenatal Clinic, you will act as a key point of contact, ensuring safe, coordinated, and person-centered care throughout the antenatal and preparation-for-birth pathway.

Band 6 experience within the UK is essential to this role.

Main duties of the job

• Clinical Excellence: Manage a caseload of pregnant individuals with Type 1, Type 2, and Gestational Diabetes, providing specialized clinical assessment, education, and support.
• MDT Collaboration: Work seamlessly alongside Consultant Obstetricians, Diabetologists, Diabetes Specialist Nurses (DSNs), Dietitians, and sonographers to formulate and implement individualized care plans.
• Education & Support: Empower patients to manage their condition, offering guidance on blood glucose monitoring, insulin/metformin administration, lifestyle modifications, and signs of complications.
• Clinic Flow: Coordinate and run specialized joint diabetes antenatal clinics, ensuring efficient patient care and timely follow-ups.
• Advocacy & Safety: Act as a strong advocate for the patient, facilitating informed choice and birth planning, while remaining highly vigilant to maternal and fetal well-being.

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Your Next Career Move Made Easier - Accommodation May Be Offered

We understand relocating can be a big step. Hampshire Hospitals may be able to provide accommodation options for successful candidates, depending on availability. If this something you would like to explore please contact Southern Housing on 02080 360017

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more information please contact [email protected].

Please see attached job description and person specification

Job description
Job responsibilities

For more information please contact [email protected].

Please see attached job description and person specification

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential

• Registered midwife
• Diploma/degree level or equivalent
• Practice Supervisor status
• Evidence of further professional development

Desirable

• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) related to diabetes, public health, nutrition, and maternal medicine.
• Training in breastfeeding support/infant feeding and antenatal colostrum harvesting.
• Training in insulin management, blood glucose monitoring, and diabetes technologies used in pregnancy.
• Practice Assessor status

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Experience of practicing as a band 6 midwife within the UK
• Able to make appropriate clinical decisions in view of recent research, informed choice, and individual circumstances.
• Experience in all clinical areas

Desirable

• Has participated in audit or research
• Has participated in service development
• Previous role caring for women with complex pregnancies

Skills

Essential

• Organise and adjust own workload in relation to priorities
• Self-motivated, tenacious and relish a challenge
• Adaptable and responsible to changing needs and able to use own initiative
• Demonstrate competence in midwifery skills required for clinical on-calls and associated with the management of obstetric and neonatal emergencies.

Person Specification
Training and Qualifications

Essential

• Registered midwife
• Diploma/degree level or equivalent
• Practice Supervisor status
• Evidence of further professional development

Desirable

• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) related to diabetes, public health, nutrition, and maternal medicine.
• Training in breastfeeding support/infant feeding and antenatal colostrum harvesting.
• Training in insulin management, blood glucose monitoring, and diabetes technologies used in pregnancy.
• Practice Assessor status

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Experience of practicing as a band 6 midwife within the UK
• Able to make appropriate clinical decisions in view of recent research, informed choice, and individual circumstances.
• Experience in all clinical areas

Desirable

• Has participated in audit or research
• Has participated in service development
• Previous role caring for women with complex pregnancies

Skills

Essential

• Organise and adjust own workload in relation to priorities
• Self-motivated, tenacious and relish a challenge
• Adaptable and responsible to changing needs and able to use own initiative
• Demonstrate competence in midwifery skills required for clinical on-calls and associated with the management of obstetric and neonatal emergencies.

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.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Royal Hampshire County Hospital

Romsey Road

Winchester

SO22 5DG

United Kingdom

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