Children's Diabetes Team

3 months ago

Lincoln, United Kingdom United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Support the Team Leader in the daily operational management and leadership of the Community Children’s Diabetes Nursing Team ensuring the delivery of high quality health care, education and support to children and families within the home, school and in various community settings. Deputise for the Team Leader in his/her absence.
- To initiate and co-ordinate appropriate services in order to facilitate the early discharge, and manage children and young people newly diagnosed with Diabetes at home.
- To support the development of ambulatory care and promote the ethos of empowering children, young people and their families to develop the knowledge, skills and expertise to enable them to become self-caring, independent and manage their own condition at home wherever possible.
- To work as a member of the Children’s Diabetes multi-disciplinary Team; providing a holistic and developmental approach to diabetes from infancy to adolescence.
- To work closely with consultant team to optimise outcomes for children and young people with diabetes both as a primary condition and as a complication of conditions such as endocrine disorders.
- To provide in-reach support to ward areas to ensure that newly diagnosed diabetics receive appropriate treatment and advice

Support the team leader with the direct care and management of children and young people with diabetes.

Demonstrate high standards of self / time management and in the absence of the Team Leader support junior team members’ work/life balance / level of activity through the monitoring and collation of monthly records of hours worked. To practise autonomously with confidence and expertise

In the absence of the Team Leader, undertake daily evaluations of the team’s workload in order to organise, prioritise home visits to children, and ensure fair allocation and distribution of work among team members taking account of staff experience, skills, training and visit location.

To contribute to the development and maintenance of a cohesive team that ensures the wellbeing of all of its members through supportive relationships, working practices, specialist supervision, training and maintenance of appropriate professional boundaries.

To work as a member of the diabetes team providing assessment of care needs as well as development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care/education for children/young adults and their families, with diabetes.

With support from the Consultant and other members of the MDT team to optimise treatment regimens, interpreting blood glucose and ketone results and adjusting insulin treatment within an agreed specific protocol.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

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