Cns Diabetes

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join the Diabetes Nursing team at Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust on the Lewisham site. The Diabetes Specialist Nurse will be providing evidence based clinical advice to healthcare professionals, patients, their carer’s. the successful applicant will be working within the MDT providing specialist care, advice and education for various patients groups within diabetes including Type 1, Complex Type 2, Antenatal, Pump and Libre care pathways.
- To co-ordinate the specialty cares within the Trust.
- To become an essential member, and point of contact and resource for the multi-disciplinary team and patients and carers with diabetes.

LGT May 2017
- Carries out diabetes and related diagnostic/therapeutic interventions as an independent practitioner, interprets, writes reports and commences further possible treatment on the basis of the findings.
- Carries out diabetes complex therapeutic/investigational procedures under indirect supervision of the Consultant. Ensuring that they are carried out using safe practice and under agreed guidelines/protocols to ensure that the highest possible standard is obtained based on competent clinical practice.
- To demonstrate the ability to develop new skills, to provide an expert high quality, nurse-led service.
- To provide ongoing follow-up care and support (home visits / telephone support / nurse/midwife led clinics / outpatient clinics and outreach clinics)
- To develop the service in a structured interdisciplinary way, initiating on-going change and progression in the expanding role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist Diabetes.
- To develop interdisciplinary clinical management protocols and work within them.
- Autonomously or in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, manage the care of patients carrying out relevant interventions, within agreed clinical protocols and in line with current practice/trends.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

As an organisation, we’ve made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years. This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of “Good” in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of “Good” that we had already achieved in the Caring domain. Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust’s improvement journey, as we’ve stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention. We’ve also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.

**Key Result Areas & Performance**:
All the following are to be carried out while working in close collaboration with members of the multi-disciplinary team led by a Consultant. To demonstrate clinical expertise within the Diabetes speciality and work autonomously, managing own allocated clinics independently and seeking guidance/support when necessary.
- To co-ordinate the specialty cares within the Trust.
- To become an essential member, and point of contact and resource for the multi-disciplinary team and patients and carers with diabetes.
- Carries out diabetes and related diagnostic/therapeutic interventions as an independent practitioner, interprets, writes reports and commences further possible treatment on the basis of the findings.
- Carries out diabetes complex therapeutic/investigational procedures under indirect supervision of the Consultant. Ensuring that they are carried out using safe practice and under agreed guidelines/protocols to ensure that the highest possible standard is obtained based on competent clinical practice.
- To demonstrate the ability to develop new skills, to provide an expert high quality, nurse-led service.
- To provide ongoing follow-up care and support (home visits / telephone support / nurse/midwife led clinics / outpatient clinics and outreach clinics)
- To develop the service in a structured interdisciplinary way, initiating on-going change and progression in the expanding role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist Diabetes.
- To develop interdisciplinary clinical management protocols and work within them.
- Autonomously or in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, manage the care of patients carrying out relevant interventions, within agreed clinical protocols and in line with current practice/trends.
- To offer a supportive service to Diabetes patients and their carers, and. liaising with other health