Midwife - Diabetes Continuity Team

We are looking for enthusiastic and experienced midwives to join our highly motivated continuity team supporting women with diabetes in pregnancy. The Tulip Team provides continuity of care in the Antenatal, Intrapartum, and Postnatal periods. The team works a variety of shifts, including day and night on-call cover.

Ideally, candidates would work a minimum of 33 hours per week and be either a Band 5 nearing the end of their preceptorship or a Band 6.

Experienced midwives will receive a period of orientation to the service once the post is commenced prior to joining the team.

Please note: All overseas applications who do not have NMC registration allowing them to practice as a midwife in the UK will not be shortlisted.

You will have a reassuring style that inspires confidence and promotes our range of services to the families you are supporting. You will be an excellent communicator, who is also great at listening to women, birthing people, and their families, helping them to achieve a high quality, positive, and safe experience through the development of personalised care plans.

You will have the chance to work in all areas of our service, including:

• Freestanding and alongside birth centres
• Obstetric delivery suite
• Maternity assessment suite
• Antenatal clinics
• Community services
• Home birth team
• Antenatal and postnatal ward
• Theatre

You will also have the chance to work closely with our specialist teams who love helping our team members flourish, including:

• Enhanced support midwifery team
• Antenatal screening team
• Research and development team
• Rainbow team
• Diabetes specialist continuity of carer team
• Digital team

You’ll help support and guide our students and maternity support workers too.

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our service users. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area and give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire and Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely makes a difference to support our patients and staff, ensuring we keep thriving and delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet wonderful people, and do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills and enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold, and help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care, which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Duties to include, but not be limited to:

• Assist and support the lead midwife in the safe, effective management of the area, including management of personnel, facilities, and the associated systems and processes.
• Act as a role model, presenting a positive image of self, team, and the organisation.
• Be responsible for the delivery and co-ordination of care through appropriate professional practice, delegation, and supervision of duties carried out by less experienced staff.
• Ensure a high standard of Midwifery care is delivered by self and others based on assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care to meet patients’ needs in accordance with agreed local and national standards and evidence-based guidelines.
• Set, monitor, and maintain standards of care to improve the patient experience and outcome of care.
• Proactively manage risk and maintain patient safety, conforming to health, safety, and security legislation, policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Communicate all relevant information to the multidisciplinary team internally and with external organisations as required to ensure seamless care.
• Promote provision of education and health promotion.
• Promote equality in care and practice by recognising, respecting, and meeting the needs and choices of individuals.
• Ensure the environment of care is safe, well-equipped, and compliant with standards for hygiene and cleanliness.

If this is not enough…… we have a BIG PLAN to:

• Consistently deliver excellent care.
• Create a great place to work.
• Deliver value for money.
• Ensure we are fit for the future.
• Develop our staff to be the best they can be.

We hope you can see yourself being part of this dynamic team of midwives who really care about your career development, your ideas, and your contribution to make our service the best around.