Diabetes Midwife

Job Overview Band 6 Diabetes Midwife (Permanent)

Join our dedicated Diabetes Team and make a real difference to the lives of women and families.

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Diabetes Midwife to join our friendly and supportive Diabetes Team. This permanent role is ideal for a motivated and compassionate midwife with a passion for providing high-quality, specialist care to women with diabetes throughout pregnancy.

As a valued member of our multidisciplinary obstetric diabetes team, you will work closely with colleagues across both obstetric and general diabetes services to deliver expert, evidence‑based care. You will provide ongoing education, support and advice to pregnant women with diabetes, their families, and the healthcare professionals involved in their care, helping to achieve the best possible outcomes for mothers and babies.

This is a varied role that offers the opportunity to work across both the hospital and community hub settings, enabling you to develop strong collaborative relationships and provide seamless care across services.

We Are Seeking An Enthusiastic And Adaptable Midwife Who

• Is passionate about improving care for women with diabetes in pregnancy.
• Enjoys working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Has excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Is committed to delivering compassionate, patient‑centred care.
• As the role includes travel between hospital and community hubs, the successful candidate will need access to a vehicle and be able to travel between sites as required.

If you are looking for an opportunity to develop your specialist skills within a supportive and forward‑thinking team, we would love to hear from you.

• All midwife practitioners will be Registered Midwives, accountable for their own midwifery practice and will be able to fulfil the following role through the ability to make decisions with current protocols and principles of care in compliance with the NMC’s Midwives Rules and code of Midwifery Practice.
• This midwife may be a recently qualified midwife, or she/he may be very experienced, but she/he will be expected to continue with post‑registration education and development to become a confident midwife able to provide care with the women either in the community or hospital environment.
• The post holder is required to take responsibility as a prime care provider in either the hospital or community setting.
• She/he will be confident in providing midwife led care.
• To work as a midwife and a member of the midwifery team in all areas of the maternity service as required – i.e. Community, Antenatal Ward, Labour Ward, Postnatal Ward, Transitional Care Unit, Birth Centre, Antenatal Clinic, Maternity Assessment Centre.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.

• Demonstrates clinical skills commensurate with a midwife who has migrated from band 5 to 6 Demonstrates clinical skills
• Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise workload effectively.
• Can demonstrate effective Communication skills.

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