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.
For Further Information Please Contact
Amanda Lee amandaj.lee@ouh.nhs.uk
Rachael.Gosling@ouh.nhs.uk
The post holder will work in partnership with service users and the multi-disciplinary team to improve/protect health and wellbeing; with the ultimate aim of improving health for all & particularly the health of our seldom heard families (Department of Health 2013). Key work will focus on improving outcomes of women with modifiable risk factors such as obesity, and also support other behavioural changes such as smoking in pregnancy in collaboration with the wider specialist midwives. The post holder will also support the process to secure a year on year increase in uptake of immunization (whooping cough/flu programmes & where required covid19 immunisations).
The post holder will 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. The ultimate aim is to support women to maintain a stable weight through pregnancy and decrease the long-term affects that obesity can cause, as well as the impact that this can cause through subsequent pregnancies. Therefore helping to improve perinatal outcomes. Evidence has shown that healthy lifestyle advice in pregnancy through a skilled midwifery provision can improve overall perinatal/postnatal outcomes.
The post holder will also help deliver the annual flu programme with leadership from the band 7 healthy lifestyle midwife & wider PH team.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
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We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Amanda Lee Job title: Matron for Public Health Email address: amandaj.lee@ouh.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01865 857182
Rachael Gosling
rachael.gosling@ouh.nhs.uk
Healthy Lifestyle And Substance Use Midwife
