London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
Diabetes Specialist Midwife
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Role Overview
Working as the specialist midwife with enhanced education and training in diabetes, he/she will be best placed to provide additional support and guidance to a women and her family, when her care becomes increasingly complex as a result of diabetes. The specialist midwife will evolve the diabetic care pathway and will work in collaboration with the diabetic nurse specialist and obstetric consultants who specialise in diabetes. In this role the specialist midwife will act as an advisor to other midwives and will demonstrate an advanced level of clinical decision making and responsibility. They will provide a continuum for the diabetic population which will enhance the health of the women and their families. The specialist midwife will continue to support, advise and monitor women’s health and wellbeing during her pregnancy and birth. He/she will guide the women and her family on the care of the neonate and monitor its wellbeing. The specialist midwife will build up networks within the community to which they will be able to sign post the women, enabling then to take responsibility for their future care. He/she will work closely with midwifery and obstetric colleagues to ensure that care provision for the patients in the care pathways is of high quality, clinically effective and resource efficient.
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Key Responsibilities
- Expert clinical practitioner within own clinical area
- Assesses, develops, implements and evaluates programmes of care
- Monitors and ensures maintenance of standards of care
- Monitors and ensures high quality of care for women and their family
- Supervises and develops staff
- Participates in research and audit
- Undertake the full role of the midwife including advanced decision making, using evidence based practice and highly developed advanced practice skills
- Directly refer maternity users for medical investigations and for review to other health care professionals, as agreed by the lead consultant obstetrician
About the Trust
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
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Major Acute Services
- Northwick Park Hospital: Home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK.
- St Mark’s Hospital: An internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease.
- Ealing Hospital: A busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice.
- Central Middlesex Hospital: Our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Thobile Zikhali
- Job title: Matron
- Email address: t.zikhali@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07387230545
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