Job Introduction
We are looking for a Band 6 Diabetes Nurse to join our team within the DGS Community, based from Livingstone Hospital in Dartford, Kent
You'll provide a link between GP and consultant led specialist teams and provide education and support both to people with diabetes and those who care for them, ensuring the delivery of a high quality and productive service based on best available evidence
Located just off the M25, there are great access points and just a short distance from Bluewater Shopping and Leisure Centre, you'll be able to take advantage of the ample coffee shops and food places nearby
This is a community based role that operates Monday to Friday
Main Responsibility
As a Diabetes Nurse you will be responsible for communicating highly sensitive information and bad news to patients and carers in an empathetic and supportive manner empowering the patient to manage their condition. You will need to be accountable for organising own workload within available hours to make sure patients receive the highest level of care.
You will work alongside the other Diabetes Nurses and Healthcare Professionals to promote the health and wellbeing of people with diabetes.
The Ideal Candidate
The post will have Nursing Degree with NMC Registration with at least 2 years post qualification experience at Band 5 or Band 6 of caring for patients with Diabetes in in both Acute and Community clinical settings.
Evidence of post qualification CPD in Diabetes Care and Management and experience in Working with patients in groups and delivering education is essential.
This is a community service, a full UK driving licence and access to a car is needed to fulfil this position.
Package Description
As a Band 6 Diabetes Specialist Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team at Livingstone Hospital in Dartford, Kent
You will feel valued as a Diabetes Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £35,392 - £42,618 Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Plentiful on site-parking
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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