Healthy Lifestyle Nurse/Midwife
Band 6
37.5 Hours
The Healthy Lifestyle Nurse/Midwife will support the specialist midwife and wider public health team to deliver forward a new pathway relating to maternal lifestyle behaviours during the perinatal journey for women & their families.
Main duties of the job
1. Work in partnership with service users and the multi-disciplinary team to improve/protect health and wellbeing with the aim of improving health for all, particularly the health of seldom heard families.
2. Focus on improving outcomes for women with modifiable risk factors such as obesity and support other behavioural changes such as smoking in pregnancy in collaboration with the wider specialist midwives.
3. Support the process to secure an increase in uptake of immunization (whooping cough/flu programmes & where required covid19 immunisations).
4. Co-create a MLC clinic in collaboration with the specialist band 7 healthy lifestyle midwife, consultant midwife, obstetric body & public health colleagues to facilitate a MLC pathway for women with a raised BMI > 35.
5. Help deliver the annual flu programme with leadership from the band 7 healthy lifestyle midwife & wider PH team.
Job responsibilities
1. Demonstrate skill and professional knowledge acquired through post-registration academic, clinical development. Work as an excellent role model for professional practice.
2. Practice in accordance with the professional, ethical, and legal codes of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Trust protocols and guidelines.
3. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate woman-centred care & guide more junior staff to deliver effective, holistic care.
4. Collaborate with the consultant midwife & healthy lifestyle specialist midwife to refresh the current healthy lifestyle clinic.
5. Work in close collaboration with the OUH here for health & dietetics department.
6. Support the coordination of bariatric women's care who are accessing maternity services.
7. Ensure that the environment for women, families, and staff are safe and conducive to high-quality care.
8. Liaise with and communicate sensitive complex issues with the multidisciplinary team.
9. Provide knowledge, expertise, and advice surrounding the sensitive nature of raised BMI.
10. Monitor, audit and advise on the management of care for women with a raised BMI.
11. Support the specialist healthy lifestyle midwife in making individualised plans for women re: raised BMI & place of birth.
12. Facilitate a collaborative approach to women and family's care.
13. Develop close working relationships with all members of the MDT.
14. Support the facilitation of the annual MECC training.
Person Specification
Essential criteria
* Able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.
Desirable criteria
* Computer literacy.
Employer details
Employer name: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Womens Centre, John Radcliffe, Headley Way, Oxford, OX3 9DU
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