Diabetes Educator

Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join Spirit Health Group Limited as a Diabetes/Health Educator. We are a rapidly growing family of healthcare companies, and we offer an exceptional package and progression for the right person.

Main Duties of the Job

As a Diabetes/Health Educator, you will be responsible for delivering an exceptional, structured diabetes education service for patients across the UK. You will work closely with the Education Services Manager to ensure the delivery of the EMPOWER programme in accordance with the curriculum, syllabus, educator handbook, lesson plan, and service Operating Manual.

You will also be responsible for ensuring the delivery of the EMPOWER programme in accordance with all Spirit policies and procedures. This will involve working closely with the administration team to ensure all paperwork is completed, including attendance sheets, quality of life questionnaires, goal setting and action plans, and satisfaction surveys.

About Us

Spirit Health Group Limited is a fabulous place to work. We genuinely do things differently, and we only employ exceptional people who embrace and encourage change. We innovate, simplify, and inspire, and we genuinely care about patients and our people. We live by our values of brilliance, vigour, and family.

Our outstanding levels of achievement have won us recognition from Best Companies every year since 2021. Our people are pivotal in saving the NHS millions of pounds with our cost-effective healthcare products and devices, implementing medicines optimisation and prescribing programmes, building innovative digital remote monitoring solutions, providing high-quality education services, and dispensing NHS prescriptions through our friendly pharmacy.

Job Responsibilities

• The post holder will undertake training and pass a competence assessment to deliver diabetes education.
• Diabetes education will be delivered in an inclusive and interactive manner, allowing for questions and discussion on the topics covered.
• Delivery of education will be patient-centred and will allow for a variety of learning styles to support cognitive learning.
• The educator will introduce and cover each topic following the curriculum closely.
• The educator will reflect on the session, identifying what went well, what went less well, and what changes could be made.

Performance Measures

• The post holder will undertake a structured training programme and pass a competency assessment to enable delivery of the course following the curriculum.
• Annual observation and reaccreditation process.
• Achieve a consistently high patient feedback score.

Principal Responsibilities

• Delivery of interactive structured diabetes education programmes in accordance with the set curriculum and lesson plan.
• Use a range of sound teaching and learning techniques to improve participants' ability to self-manage their diabetes.
• Ensure the course is delivered using the most up-to-date programme content.
• Understand the administration and course organisation process undertaken by the administration team.
• Ensure all paperwork is completed, including attendance sheets, quality of life questionnaires, goal setting and action plans, and satisfaction surveys.

Specific Skills/Competencies/Qualifications/Person Specification

• Experience of delivering health education.
• Sound clinical knowledge and understanding of diabetes.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills.

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