Community Diabetes Specialist Nurse Band 5

2 months ago


Crewe, United Kingdom Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP) have an exciting opportunity for a 6 month secondment. We are looking for someone to join our dynamic and forward-thinking Community Specialist Diabetes Nursing Team as a Band 5 Community Diabetes Staff Nurse.

The post will be based in Crewe but covers the geographical areas of CCICP (Nantwich & Rural, Northwich, Winsford, Crewe & SMASH (Sandbach, Middlewich, Alsager, Scholar Green, Haslington).

CCICP Community Diabetes Specialist Nursing service is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated practitioner to join the DSN team. The service embraces new technologies for all adults in their journey with diabetes, including pregnancy and young persons.

The successful candidate will possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrate successful team working to support the service agenda in meeting the challenges of evolving diabetes care.

We have a fantastic team and are proud of what we achieve. We value teamwork and are looking for an individual who shares our passion for diabetes and commitment to continual personal development.

Main duties of the job

The Community Diabetes Staff Nurse will work with the Diabetes Specialist Nurses, contributing to the delivery of high quality evidence based treatment, for patients diagnosed with Diabetes in order to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and support patients to remain at home.

This encompasses all aspects of Diabetes management including implementation and evaluation of clinical management plans and reporting back to the Diabetes Specialist Nurses, delivery of care in a variety of settings, provision of holistic care to Diabetes patients and support to family/carers.

The Community Diabetes Nurse Service aims to provide high standards of holistic care to individual patients with Diabetes within the community setting, facilitating the prevention of avoidable admissions to hospital.

This involves close working with colleagues within secondary care as well as the wider community health care and social teams to achieve seamless care and optimal management of Diabetes through the provision of an Integrated Health Care Team approach to service delivery.

As a Diabetes Staff Nurse you will be responsible in assisting the Diabetes Specialist Nurses to manage an active caseload encompassing clinic and home visits.

About us

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester (population 357K). The Trust provides high quality planned and emergency care, cardiac, critical care,child health,maternity services and intermediate care at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Trust provides over 500 beds and employs over 5,100 members of staff. A comprehensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools through our Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership.

We have played, and continue to play, a proactive role in the development of Integrated Care plans across Cheshire & Merseyside and our local Cheshire East and Cheshire West Place-based systems. We believe, and it is the cornerstone of our five-year Trust Strategy, there is the opportunity to progress innovative, responsive and effective care in the best setting for the patient, be it in the hospital or out in the community.

At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.

We welcome all applicants and assess all job applications based on knowledge, skills and experience needed for the post.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Works autonomously to manage his/her own caseload of patients whilst working as part of a multidisciplinary team without direct medical supervision.

Enables patient choice and involvement and initiates, under supervision, appropriate action.

Coordinates and develops patient care pathway and liaises across organisational

Undertakes specialist assessment and plans specialised programmes of care and provides highly specialised advice to patients, relatives and carers.

Ensures each patient is placed in the correct treatment pathway at the appropriate time and necessary investigations and treatments are organised.

Provides clinical advice and support to healthcare professionals within and across organisational boundaries

Provides clinical advice in accordance with current evidence based practice.

Undertakes nurse/practitioner -led clinics

Participates in case conferences in relation to future management or discharge arrangements

Ensures patients and their families are given appropriate oral and written information regarding planned care

Maintains accurate patient records and ensures all relevant information is documented in the patients medical and nursing records

Participates in MDT with consultants and specialist registrars to discuss complex case managemen

Person Specification

Qualification/Knowledge/previous experience

Essential

RGN/RN qualification NMC Registered Excellent communication skills Evidence based practice

Desirable

Experience in diabetes Previous Caseload Management experience. Experience of contributing to the teaching and mentoring of staff Evidence of CPD

Communication

Essential

Excellent communication/interpersonal skills

Desirable

Evidence of communication with the wider team

Experience

Essential

The ability to work independently Excellent time management skill

Desirable

Diabetes experience Experience Managing a caseload

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