Diabetes Specialist Midwife, Band 7
NHS Jobs Gloucester
Demonstrate effective leadership and management skills and promote a proactive approach to diabetes care within maternity services.
- Be available as an expert in diabetes for midwives and junior doctors to ensure care provided within the Trust is effective and evidenced based to support safe practice.
- Act as a professional resource for the wider MDT and assist in the design and delivery of educational programmes and study days.
- Work closely with the diabetes MDT to provide clinics for women who have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes for further assessment, education and monitoring of their condition in line with evidence-based guidelines.
- Act as a point of contact to ensure that all women seen within the specialist clinics are seen in an appropriate timely manner with improved information provision.
- Hold professional accountability for managing a team of staff delivering high quality, caring and compassionate patient centred care through effective leadership and management and in partnership with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Build relationships and work closely with the patient safety and quality team and lead on investigations of diabetes in pregnancy incidents and share learning from incidents and changes in practice with staff.
- Provide public health information and advice to women regarding lifestyle choices e.g.
- Action referrals to specialist services e.g., retinopathy and regional maternal medicine centre when requested; ensure multi-agency records are complete.
- Liaise between obstetric staff, ward areas, paediatricians, NNU, laboratory staff, to plan delivery of high-risk pregnancies and care of babies.
- Promote multi-disciplinary team working, leading/liaising, communicating as necessary and supporting junior staff.
- Work in partnership with colleagues across the Directorate to provide both clinical leadership and develop standards to promote high quality practice.
- Create an environment of continuous quality improvement.
- Provide designated leadership and management responsibility for the dedicated diabetes specialist midwife role.
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