Job Introduction
We have an exciting developmental opportunity for an enthusiastic Band 6 Registered General Nurse wanting to progress their skills within the specialism of Diabetes nursing. Upon completion of the competencies, the role will transition into a Band 7 post.
As a Diabetes Specialist Nurse you will be working with our friendly, enthusiastic and national award winning team, as part of the NHS system in Surrey and Northeast Hampshire.
Within this role there is a great deal of variety from face-to-face contacts with patients and carers in clinic and home settings, to provision of education in groups to both patients and healthcare professionals. You will manage your own caseload and work independently with a wider support function. The Diabetes specialist team works closely with both general practice healthcare professionals, community nursing teams, social services and the hospital diabetes specialist team aiming to provide an integrated holistic approach of care to individuals.
This is a flexible full time opportunity working Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm with the flexibility to work one day a week from home to complete virtual consultations and complete your admin tasks.
If you would like to find out more about this role, please contact the hiring manager at
email: Liz.Gilbert@hcrgcaregroup.com mobile: 07973705261
Main Responsibility
In this role, you will (but not be limited to):
- Promote the health and wellbeing of people with diabetes
- Provide a link between GP and consultant led specialist teams
- Deliver education and support to people with diabetes and those who care for them
- Be responsible for managing a defined caseload of patients, using theoretical knowledge and high levels of practical experience to formulate a specialised programme of care.
- Accept referrals from anyone involved in caring for people with diabetes and from patients themselves
- Provide education and support to Health Care Professionals
Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.
The Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will:
- Be a Registered General Nurse with a minimum of 3 years post graduate nursing experience
- Have evidence of managing people with diabetes whether that be in the community or in a hospital setting
- Have the confidence using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams
- Hold full UK driving licence
Package Description
As a Diabetes Specialist Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team in Surrey.
You will feel valued as a Diabetes Specialist Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £35,392 - £42,618 Band 6 Salary with development to a Band 7 upon completion of competencies
- 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
- 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
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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