Job Introduction
Make the move to the Wiltshire Community Diabetes Specialist Team.
Our Specialist Nursing Team are a national award-winning team at the forefront of service innovation and improvements. If you have diabetes experience and you are looking for a new challenge, we may have a job for you!
Our service is nationally recognised for its innovative and patient-centred approach to diabetes care. We pride ourselves on fostering a supportive, collaborative, and forward-thinking environment, ensuring the best outcomes for people living with diabetes that we support.
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Be part of a team that’s transforming diabetes care and making a difference in the community. If you’re passionate about delivering exceptional care and ready to take the next step in your career, we’d love to hear from you!
For an informal discussion or further information, please contact Bethany Kelly, Clinical Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse on 07885467293 or bethkelly@nhs.net
Main Responsibility
As a Senior Diabetes Nurse Specialist, you will:
• The post holder will be responsible for a caseload combining high level assessment, advanced diabetes specialist knowledge establishing a diagnosis, initiating diabetes treatments, and appropriately leading the co-ordination of care referring to other health professionals within the multidisciplinary team, integrated team, mental and social care.
• The post will involve working closely with Primary care, other Community services and the acute Trusts; ensuring diabetes care is meeting the national recommendations and promoting the wider changes in diabetes and nursing care, to meet the needs of the population.
• The post holder will be the expert resource to the multi-disciplinary team,
• To be a key driver for change to assist integrated care pathways/systems across Primary Care, Mental Health, Social Care and acute trust providers.
• To enable people with diabetes to access services in the most appropriate care setting.
• Deliver high standards of care to patients with diabetes. Where appropriate this will be the avoidance of unnecessary admission to secondary care.
• To be an integral member of the primary care team, working with a shared vision and developing caseloads in partnership with each other. Developing and evolving practice in diabetes care taking into account needs of the diabetes population and national recommendations.
• Maintain legible, accurate and up to date records that are dated and signed in accordance with Trust Policies and the Nursing and Midwifery Council/Health and Care Professions Council standards on record keeping.
• Work autonomously with diabetes patients, their families and carers managing referrals according to need and priority.
• Negotiate and agree with the patient, carers and other care professionals, individual roles and responsibilities with actions to be taken and outcomes to be achieved, referring on to other services or professionals as appropriate.
• Establish local networks in partnership with other health and social professionals/agencies and national links with other generalists in order to develop protocols according to national and local guidelines for the safe and effective provision of a diabetes community nursing service.
full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.
The Ideal Candidate
We’re looking for a motivated, compassionate nurse who:
- First Level Registered Nurse
- Diabetes Nurse Specialist in acute or community care
- Independent/ extended or supplementary prescribing
- Diploma in diabetes and evidence of relevant on-going professional development.
- Degree, or masters or willing to work towards
- Highly specialist diabetes knowledge in managing patients with diabetes and supporting health professionals by theory and practice.
- Evidence of significant Diabetes Nurse Specialist experience and development within the speciality of diabetes.
- Evidence of working within a multi professional team.
- Evidence of recent developments innovations and implementing change.
- Ability to critically analyse data and understand complex diabetes care and management
For the full list please see the attached Job Description.
Package Description
As a Band 7 Senior Specialist Diabetes Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued Community Diabetes Specialist Team.
You will feel valued as a Diabetes Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- AFC Band 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
- 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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