Diabetes Trainee Practitioner

3 days ago

London, United Kingdom Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

£38,768 - £46,124 per annum incl HCAS

Cross Site - Chelsea and Westminster + West Middlesex University Hospital

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for nurses and Allied Health Professionals keen to extend their skills in diabetes and endocrinology.

The Diabetes Specialist Practitioner team provides expertise in all aspects of diabetes care provision; involving the expert management of diabetic inpatients and outpatients as well as specialist groups such as antenatal diabetes. This post is designed to recruit staff from a variety of disciplines who have an interest and some experience in diabetes, with a view to providing training and supervision to build independent practitioners of the future. This will be in line with the pan London competency framework. We are seeking current band 6 nurses, pharmacists, dieticians or therapists who are motivated, enthusiastic and keen to develop their skills in diabetes management.

The Diabetes Specialist Practitioner team provides expertise in all aspects of diabetes care provision; involving the expert management of diabetic inpatients and outpatients as well as specialist groups such as antenatal diabetes. This post is designed to recruit staff from a variety of disciplines who have an interest and some experience in diabetes, with a view to providing training and supervision to build independent practitioners of the future. This will be in line with the pan London competency framework. We are seeking current band 6 nurses, pharmacists, dieticians or therapists who are motivated, enthusiastic and keen to develop their skills in diabetes management.

We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have over 6,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

In 2020 Trust was rated by the Care Quality Commission as Outstanding in the well-led and use of resources domains and Good in the safe, effective, caring, and responsive domains. The Trust as a whole was Good, but the Chelsea site was Outstanding.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children’s unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.

Clinical/Direct Patient Care
- Work both autonomously and as part of the wider MDT in the management of a caseload of patients.
- Maintain effective communication with patients, carers and professionals to ensure optimal service delivery.
- Provide expert knowledge of diabetes and work within an agreed job plan to meet service delivery needs.
- Become an expert in the use of insulin pump therapy, insulin administration, diabetes therapies as well as the use of blood glucose monitoring equipment.
- Complete competencies in The Integrated career Competency Framework for Diabetes Nursing
- Participate in MDT led clinics and support clinics, to include ordering, performing and interpreting relevant clinical examinations as well as providing education and counselling for patients.
- Maintain awareness of own professional limitations, act within own scope of practice and agreed guidelines and protocols. Make use of professional judgement when managing complex or unpredictable situations.
- Provide health promotion and counselling to diabetic patients to reduce the risk of diabetes related complications.
- Support patients to use technology solutions to manage their diabetes
- Plan and conduct appropriate follow up of diabetes patients to ensure safe and effective diabetes care delivery.
- Maintain accurate, concise and contemporaneous records of patient care.
- Communicate in a clear and effective manner with patients, carers and colleagues.
- Empower patients to make decisions regarding their care and advocate for them within the wider MDT.

Leadership and Collaborative Practice
- Proactively provide specialist diabetes advice, guidance and support to the wider hospital MDT to enable best practice in care and treatment of people who have diabetes.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues, patients and families to seek their views and to develop and improve diabetes practice and the diabetes service.
- Evaluate and reflect on own practice and competencies to meet the evolvin

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