Community Diabetes Specialist Nurse

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Central North west London Trust is seeking an experienced Diabetes Nurse specialist to join our specialist community diabetes Team. The Nurse will provide diabetes support and education to patients and their families, acting as a resource to other community professionals, by utilising expert knowledge and skills.

Working as part of a wider community-based team, and with external agencies, they will play a key role in the delivery of evidence-based practice in the community settings liaising with acute services and specialist nursing teams and working alongside primary care and other community partners.

The role will entail enabling the nurses to provide community-based diabetes support in order to raise awareness, improve care and help to reduce hospital admissions so that patients can lead a full and active life and reach their full potential.

The Diabetic Specialist Nurse will be a community nurse that ideally holds a recognised Diabetes MSc qualification in Diabetes.

Main duties of the job


  • Working as part of the community diabetes nursing service in delivering evidence based practice.
  • Working to support the diabetes team in networking and managing the care of people with diabetes in the Hillingdon borough.
  • Supporting and educating other HCPs across the borough
  • Acting as an educational resource to primary care and other healthcare professionals within the partnership and to additional agencies such as social care where appropriate and requested, sharing diabetes guidance, standards, and research.
  • Empowering patients and carers to be competent and confident in dealing with managing their diabetes by offering educational and support sessions in the community environment, in additional to the education they receive from their acute teams.

About us

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 7 nurses to act in a way that shows they understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friend's family and carers, and also other staff members.

As a Band 7 nurse we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment, and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better.

We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people's differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.

We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources, and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.

We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.

As a band 7 nurse we expect you to role model these values and contribute to ensuring that they are embedded in the practice of the team.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Job description

Job responsibilities


  • Working as part of the community diabetes service in delivering evidence based practice.
  • Working to support the diabetes team in networking and in managing the care people with diabetes in the Hillingdon borough.
  • Supporting and educating HCPs offering community-based study days to ensure the safe and effective management of people with diabetes .
  • Acting as an educational resource to primary care and other healthcare professionals within the partnership and to additional agencies such as social care where appropriate and requested, sharing diabetes guidance, standards, and research.
  • Empowering patients and carers to be competent and confident in dealing with managing their diabetes by offering educational and support sessions in the community environment, in additional to the education they receive from their acute teams.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential


  • Registered Nurse - on NMC register
  • Recognised Diabetes Qualification at BSc level or equivalent.

Desirable


  • Nurse Prescriber
  • Teaching qualification

Experience

Essential


  • RGN with post qualification nursing experience.
  • Demonstrate previous experience of working with people and families with diabetes
  • Working in partnership with health professionals
  • Experience of teaching and assessing.
  • Experience of leading members of the team.
  • Experience of conducting audits/research and evaluations
  • Experience of working effectively with minimal supervision
  • supervision. Knowledge of developing and implementing policies, guidelines, standards and implementing care pathways.
  • Knowledge of diversity issues and ability to work with people from a wide variety of backgrounds
  • IT Competent (using power point to prepare presentations, dietary analysis packages, databases and undertake literature searches
  • Experience of carb counting and competent in managing insulin titration

Desirable


  • Experience of working in the community.
  • Experience of training/teaching healthcare professionals/students

Knowledge

Essential


  • Knowledge of current local and national diabetes policies and guidance.
  • Working knowledge of diabetes guidelines
  • Able to demonstrate the use of research, evaluation and audit in clinical practice.
  • Good planning and organisational skills.
  • Good planning and organisational skills. Good oral and written communication skills including behavioural change/motivational interviewing techniques
  • Good presentation skills
  • Ability to deal with conflict and uncomfortable or distressing situations

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hillingdon community diabetes service

HESA station road

hayes

UB3 4DD

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