Job overview

The Deputy Diabetes & Maternal Medicine Midwife will be working within the maternity diabetic service and antenatal clinic to support the management and care of women with pre-existing diabetes and gestational diabetes throughout their pregnancy and postnatal pathway and support the running of the antenatal clinic and Maternal Medicine service.

Main duties of the job

Undertake the role of the midwife including decision making, using evidence-based practice.

Offer support to the Maternal Medicine service which may include triaging high-risk patients and ensuring appropriate referrals are made to external Maternal Medicine centres.

Facilitate the effective assessment, implementation and evaluation of midwifery care for women with diabetes and other complex medical conditions, within own sphere of clinical practice.

Attend combined antenatal/diabetes clinic and act a resource for women and staff throughout the maternity services

Work in the antenatal clinic setting supporting the diabetic and screening services to support smooth running of outpatient areas

Support diabetic midwifery care and provide a comprehensive range of health education, psychological and social care advice to women in a hospital and community setting

To ensure the provision of a safe and high-quality diabetic midwifery service ensuring continuity of care in keeping with agreed pathways.

To work in partnership with the Lead midwife in planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care in order to improve the health of individuals, their families and reduce health inequalities.

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH.  We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.

Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.

We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit.  We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome.  We love working here and think you will too.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about this role, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification

Person specification

Qualifications/training & professional development

Essential criteria

• Current NMC Registration

Experience

Essential criteria

• Post registration experience at Band 6

Skills, abilities & knowledge

Essential criteria

• Enthusiastic and innovative
• Organised and able to manage own time
• Approachable and friendly to both patients and colleagues
• Excellent communication skills- written and verbal
• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team

Desirable criteria

• Willingness to undertake: Post registration qualification in Diabetes-ENB 928 or equivalent, Degree or equivalent experience, Non-medical prescriber course

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to work a varied shift pattern where required; covering a 7 day service

Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race ,ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values.