# Diabetes Midwife

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Royal Hampshire County Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Midwife
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pa pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week (3x days per week)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-20T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09T13:10:56.380Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hampshire/Winchester/Hampshire_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Midwifery/Midwifery-v8166695
- **Employer website:** https://www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are seeking a passionate, dedicated, and skilled Specialist Midwife to join our dynamic Multidisciplinary Team (MDT). In this role, you will provide high-quality, evidence-based care to individuals with pre-existing or gestational diabetes. Working part-time within our busy Antenatal Clinic, you will act as a key point of contact, ensuring safe, coordinated, and person-centered care throughout the antenatal and preparation-for-birth pathway.

Band 6 experience within the UK is essential to this role.

### Main duties of the job

- Clinical Excellence: Manage a caseload of pregnant individuals with Type 1, Type 2, and Gestational Diabetes, providing specialized clinical assessment, education, and support.
- MDT Collaboration: Work seamlessly alongside Consultant Obstetricians, Diabetologists, Diabetes Specialist Nurses (DSNs), Dietitians, and sonographers to formulate and implement individualized care plans.
- Education & Support: Empower patients to manage their condition, offering guidance on blood glucose monitoring, insulin/metformin administration, lifestyle modifications, and signs of complications.
- Clinic Flow: Coordinate and run specialized joint diabetes antenatal clinics, ensuring efficient patient care and timely follow-ups.
- Advocacy & Safety: Act as a strong advocate for the patient, facilitating informed choice and birth planning, while remaining highly vigilant to maternal and fetal well-being.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information please contact tahli.rouse@hhft.nhs.uk.

Please see attached job description and person specification

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Organise and adjust own workload in relation to priorities
- Self-motivated, tenacious and relish a challenge
- Adaptable and responsible to changing needs and able to use own initiative
- Demonstrate competence in midwifery skills required for clinical on-calls and associated with the management of obstetric and neonatal emergencies.

### Experience and Knowledge

**Essential**

- Experience of practicing as a band 6 midwife within the UK
- Able to make appropriate clinical decisions in view of recent research, informed choice, and individual circumstances.
- Experience in all clinical areas

**Desirable**

- Has participated in audit or research
- Has participated in service development
- Previous role caring for women with complex pregnancies

### Training and Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered midwife
- Diploma/degree level or equivalent
- Practice Supervisor status
- Evidence of further professional development

**Desirable**

- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) related to diabetes, public health, nutrition, and maternal medicine.
- Training in breastfeeding support/infant feeding and antenatal colostrum harvesting.
- Training in insulin management, blood glucose monitoring, and diabetes technologies used in pregnancy.
- Practice Assessor status

## Documents

- [pledge (pdf, 205.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10471447)
- [jd and person specification (pdf, 519.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10468279)
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