Specialist Midwife for Diabetes - London, United Kingdom - Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We have a vacancy in our well established team for a passionate midwife to lead our diabetic team.

The midwife will be based at Chelsea and WestminDocumentsster Hospital and will also work with the multidisciplinary diabetes in pregnancy team both in both face to face and virtual settings.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Specialist Midwifery team at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital as the Lead Midwife for the diabetic service.

The successful postholder will work closely with the multidisciplinary team to provide a high standard of personalised and evidence based care to women with pre-existing and gestational diabetes throughout pregnancy.

Key components of the role are the running of both face to face and virtual clinics, diabetes app management, education for staff and women to support positive pregnancy experiences and optimum health, care pathway navigation, care planning for pregnancy, labour and birth and MDT presentations.

Applicants are expected to have experience in working within specialist midwifery, and should be able to evidence in depth knowledge and skills surrounding care of women affected by pre-existing/gestational diabetes.

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? Do you have excellent communication skills, specialist knowledge and a desire to develop a service to meet the needs of women and their families?

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 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 nearly 7,000 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 best performing Trusts in the country.

We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff says they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'.

We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate.

We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.

See attached job description for full details.

Provide specialist midwifery support to for the diabetes in pregnancy service
Be an autonomous practitioner within the team, being responsible for clinical care as appropriate and for delivering on specific recruitment targets within an agreed timescale.
Be responsible for identifying and explaining the GDm-Health app to eligible women ensuring that use is monitored using the dashboard in the virtual setting.
Organise follow up visits and triaging the women who are onboarded onto the GDMhealth app
Refer as appropriate any women to the multidisciplinary team
Assist with review of the women with diabetes in pregnancy in the clinical areas
Comply with Departmental and Trust(s) Policies regarding conduct and performance
Any other duties as may be deemed reasonable by the line manager