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Diabetic Specialist Midwife
| Posting date: | 04 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £40,701.00 to £48,054.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £40701.00 - £48054.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 July 2024 |
| Location: | Uxbridge, UB8 3NN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9394-24-0452 |
Summary
The Band 6 Diabetic Specialist Midwife will be responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating a programme of evidence-based care for pregnant women with diabetes. To facilitate prompt early referral of women with pre-existing diabetes or gestational diabetes to ensure correct medication and investigations and monitoring is implemented. Identify, plan and provide individualized care to all women and their families, overcoming complex barriers to understanding by using well developed interpersonal skills. To be a competent midwife, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, who is a knowledgeable and a visible practitioner within the specialty. Improve the quality and continuity of individualized midwifery care and support for pregnant women with diabetes. To work as an independent practitioner within the MDT To act as an advocate for the women with diabetes and their family ensuring the provision of appropriate information and planning, support services and to promote a culture of normality in childbirth. To demonstrate knowledge of and practice in the use of treatment regimens during pregnancy, labour and the immediate post-natal period To teach women the skills necessary for home blood glucose monitoring and self-administration of insulin To work as an independent non-medical prescriber, undertaking the relevant educational courses to work autonomously to adjust insulin doses. To ensure every woman with diabetes has a robust care plan in place before onset of labour. To provide continued support and advice for women with diabetes in the postnatal period. Identifying those that require advice to optimize glycaemic control and ensuring follow up or further screening. To be confident when recommending pre-conception services for women with diabetes. To keep up to date with the current guidelines relating to all aspects of ante-natal, post-natal and diabetes care. To be able to plan a working day prioritising specific needs of the women both antenatal and postnatally. Have a general understanding of the lead MWs role to ensure the service is well maintained in times of absence. Knowledge/awareness of latest National guidance and reports published in relation to diabetes in pregnancy and improving service care provision and outcomes; e.g Saving babies lives, Maternity Transformation programme/better births and NICE guidance on Continuous Glucose monitoring for pre-existing Type 1 Diabetics.