Job Introduction
The role of the community diabetes specialist nurse (CDSN) is to promote the health and wellbeing of people with diabetes, through specialised advice, education and support enabling them to achieve optimum glycaemic control through informed self-management.
The post holder will act at intermediate level between primary care and secondary care specialist teams to enhance communication links between services to ensure best possible outcome for patient with diabetes.
Base
The CDSN service covers Northeast Hampshire, Farnham and Surrey Heath (NEHF&SH) SH Base Camberley Health Centre, 159 Frimley Road, Camberley GU15 2QA
NEHF Base Fleet Hospital, Church Road, Fleet GU51 4LZ
Main Responsibility
- Provision of specialist advice, care, and education to people with diabetes and those involved in care to maximize best possible outcome for patient.
- Act as a specialist resource for healthcare professionals and allied services to access
- Help provide diabetes education for patients, carers, and allied health care professionals.
- Communicate effectively in clear, concise, and an empathetic manner with patient/relative/carer empowering them to understand and manage the condition.
- Accept and triage referrals appropriate to individual needs and services across NEHF&SH
- Responsible for organising the nurse led clinics in the community.
- You will be responsible for managing defined caseload of patients using evidenced based Knowledge and experience to create individualised care plans.
For a full list of responsibilities please see attached Job Description.
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
- Registered General Nurse (evidence of NMC Registration)
- 4 years post graduate nursing experience
- Adult education teaching qualification e.g ENB 998 teaching and assessing or equivalent mentorship preparation course C&G 730
- Experience in giving presentations in diabetes to groups of Healthcare professional or patients and carers
- Post graduate qualification in Diabetes or working towards one
- Experience of working within a diabetes specialist nursing team
- Good organizational and communication skills
- Self-motivated, assertive, innovative and enthusiastic
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently
- Ability to supervise junior colleagues within team
- Ability to work effectively with challenging and stressful situations
- Ability to show understanding, compassion and empathy to situations
- Good IT skills
- Car Driver (hold a full driving license)
Desirable
- Worked within a community nursing team
- Advance Physical/Clinical Assessment qualification
- Non- Medical Prescriber V300 (willing to undertake within 18months of starting role)
- Experience with technologies within diabetes
Package Description
As a Community Diabetes Specialist Nurse Band , you’ll be part of our valued team that covers Surrey.
You will feel valued as a Community Diabetes Specialist Nurse Band 7 within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £43,742 - £50,056 Band 7 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- 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
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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