Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Job summary

To work as specialist diabetes nurse in Purbeck PCN

To provide education and support to diabetes nurses and otherhealth care professionals

To take referrals from health care professionals via the SOP andprovide telephone advice to these professionals, and/ or see patients in clinicsrun in each GP practice or through home visits.

To communicate regularly with Dr Masding Consultant Diabetologist,taking referrals for education of patients and changes of treatment.

Main duties of the job

To work as a Specialist Diabetes Nurse in PurbeckPCN covering all 6 GP practices across Purbeck.

To provide telephone advice to health careprofessionals and accept referrals of diabetic patients according to the PCNSOP to improve care of patients with diabetes.

To improve education to clinicians and achieve PCNobjectives for diabetes with the diabetes primary care team.

You will be accountable to and work under theguidance of the PCN GP Diabetes Lead & PCN Clinical Director.

We will support youin development of this role and encourage you to develop your skills and worktowards additional qualifications.

About us

In the last 18 months the Purbeck Community DiabetesService has become well established and includes a PCN Diabetes GP Lead, a PCNDiabetes Care Coordinator and a community Consultant outreach teamhave demonstrated marked improvements in diabetes care in Purbeck.

We arelooking for an experienced Diabetes Specialist Nurse to build on this progressand continue to improve the diabetes care for Purbeck patients. An importantpart of this role will be to continue the support of our Diabetes Practice Nurseswith managing complex patients and providing education so that the Diabetes PracticeNurses are confident to provide the majority of diabetes care in Primary Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

This role is to work within Purbeck PCN to provide specialist diabetesnursing care, provide telephone advice to health care professionals and acceptreferrals of diabetic patients to help improve the care of patients withdiabetes.

The role will cover the 6 GPpractices across Purbeck: Swanage Medical Centre, The Wellbridge Practice,Wareham Surgery, Sanford Surgery, Corfe Castle Surgery and Bere Regis Surgery. With Wareham Surgery being the base, mileagewill be paid to cover travel to the other GP surgeries. There will be onoccasions the requirement to provide home visits.

MAIN DUTIES

To work autonomously in the provision of high-quality specialist, evidence-based diabetes care for people with diabetes, from diagnosis to long term management.

To promote self-care management to patients to prevent worsening of their condition and improve health outcomes.

To use current nice guidelines and to keep up to date with current guidelines and professional development and professional development.

To ensure full understanding of QOF for diabetes chronic disease management and to liaise with the team to ensure targets are achieved.

To actively collect and maintain data that will demonstrate patient improvement in key areas. To monitor DIIS data and CCLIP data.

To ensure delivery of best practice in clinical practice, caseload management, education, research, and audit, to achieve corporate Primary Care Network and local population objectives.

To act as a specialist resource and provide specialist advice in relation to diabetes, to patients, their family/carers, and health professionals.

To liaise with the dietician, podiatry, and education services to help ensure Purbeck patients have access to the services they require.

To identify high risk patients who need intensification of treatment.

To improve diabetes service for house bound and care home patients. To undertake home visits where appropriate.

To provide liaison with secondary care diabetes services.

To provide treatment plans for patients, for diabetes nurses, and refer to secondary care where appropriate.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

2 years post registration experience. Clear and demonstrable evidence of advanced, autonomous practice in the management of patients / service users with diabetes.

Desirable

Previous experience of working in Primary Care. Experience of clinical audit, evaluation research and implementation of evidence-based practice. Experience within a teaching/training environment.

Qualifications

Essential

NMC registered adult nurse Diploma in a diabetes related field or equivalent post graduate qualification. UK driving licence.

Desirable

Non-Medical Independent Prescriber. Advanced Clinical Practice MSc or working towards.

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