Diabetes Midwife
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 14/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves managing the diabetic service and staff, providing clinical care for diabetic/high-risk pregnant women, and liaising with multidisciplinary teams. The post holder will advise staff in acute and primary care, educate clients and families, and support other healthcare professionals in antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal diabetes care. Key responsibilities include ensuring high-quality, evidence-based care, providing leadership and training, and monitoring the diabetes service. The role requires collaboration with senior midwifery and obstetric staff to ensure women-centred care pathways.
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife
- Midwifery Degree or equivalent
- Evidence of further study related to Diabetes
- Evidence of recent professional development
Desirable criteria
- Diabetes qualification
- Non-medical prescriber
- Proven recent post registration practice and relevant competencies
- Proven experience of caring for women with diabetes in pregnancy
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of diabetes in pregnancy
- Evidence of working in a multi professional team
- Worked in all areas of maternity services
- Clinical audit experience
- Knowledge of frameworks and guidance informing care in diabetes
- Aware of current issues in Midwifery and NHS as a whole
- Conversant with recommendations from National Enquiries and Statutory bodies.
- Knowledge of management responsibilities including roster management and HR processes
- Risk management
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Ability to communicate with all team members/staff/families
- Ability to communicate at all levels within the profession and other professionals on a range of complex and sensitive issues
- Teaching skills
- Leadership skills and excellent interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate effective time management skills
- Computer literate
- Training, presentation, facilitation and mentoring skills
- Excellent clinical skills
- Personal Characteristics
- Committed to working within the organisation and achieving departmental goals
- Ability to achieve deadlines and work under pressure
- Adaptable and flexible
- Act as a role model
- Enthusiastic and motivated
- Desire to pursue professional development
- Registered Midwife
- Midwifery Degree or equivalent
- Evidence of further study related to Diabetes
- Evidence of recent professional development
- Diabetes qualification
- Non-medical prescriber
- Proven recent post registration practice and relevant competencies
- Proven experience of caring for women with diabetes in pregnancy
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of diabetes in pregnancy
- Evidence of working in a multi professional team
- Worked in all areas of maternity services
- Clinical audit experience
- Knowledge of frameworks and guidance informing care in diabetes
- Aware of current issues in Midwifery and NHS as a whole
- Conversant with recommendations from National Enquiries and Statutory bodies.
- Knowledge of management responsibilities including roster management and HR processes
- Risk management
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Ability to communicate with all team members/staff/families
- Ability to communicate at all levels within the profession and other professionals on a range of complex and sensitive issues
- Teaching skills
- Leadership skills and excellent interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate effective time management skills
- Computer literate
- Training, presentation, facilitation and mentoring skills
- Excellent clinical skills
- Personal Characteristics
- Committed to working within the organisation and achieving departmental goals
- Ability to achieve deadlines and work under pressure
- Adaptable and flexible
- Act as a role model
- Enthusiastic and motivated
- Desire to pursue professional development
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 8d
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Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Diabetes Midwife
The closing date is 14 September 2026
Job summary
The post holder will manage the diabetic service and staff within the team and work clinically where required providing care for diabetic/high risk women in liaison with the multidisciplinary team for diabetes care in pregnancy. The post holder will take responsibility to advise staff in the acute and primary care setting in relation to Diabetes and will be actively involved in client/family education, supporting midwives, obstetricians and GP's to provide on-going antenatal care and management and care planning for clients with diabetes in the intrapartum and postnatal period.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will ensure:
Women receive sensitive, appropriate and individualised care based on the best available evidence and according to existing hospital policy.
Ensure 'best practice' is disseminated to multi-disciplinary colleagues.
Provide leadership, expertise and training to midwives, medical and support staff.
Ensure the provision of a safe and high quality Diabetic midwifery service providing a comprehensive range of health education, psychological and social care advice to women in a hospital setting.
To provide effective clinical and professional leadership to all midwives, support staff, students and the multidisciplinary team working w
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