Diabetes Educator

Description:

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

The Diabetes Education Team provides education and support to all women with diabetes with the aim of preventing diabetes complications.

• Provide clinical care of all in-patients with diabetes in pregnancy, including women on the Gynaecology and Oncology wards.
• Provide clinical care for women with diabetes on an outpatient basis through outpatient clinics. This care is provided in group sessions and in one-to-one consultations/telehealth.
• Provide teaching and training activities including student lectures, staff in-services, and providing professional training for diabetes educators.
• Provide Diabetes education for women with diabetes.
• Provide and participate in quality activities and research projects to facilitate and maintain best practice particularly in Diabetes in pregnancy.

Your contribution

The Diabetes educator is a clinical expert who is an important member of the Diabetes Service and an integral part of the multidisciplinary TeamCare Team. With the support of the Diabetes Team, the diabetes educator provides and coordinates best practice clinical care for women having maternity care both as an outpatient and inpatient and also provides consultation to non-maternity areas at the Women’s.

Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Providing Clinical Care for women with diabetes
• Providing Professional Support, Education and Training
• Participating in Quality Activities and Research
• Building and maintaining professional relationships