Practice Nurse Specialist in Diabetes

Job summary

Specialist Practice Nurse with experience in Diabetes

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and enthusiastic Specialist Practice Nurse to join our forward-thinking team at Riverside Health Partnership.

The successful candidate will work to ensure a high level of care is delivered to our patients. The practice is very supportive of any development opportunities, but is looking for a dedicated nurse that can really hit the ground running.

If you are passionate about diabetes care and want to make a positive impact on the lives of people living with diabetes, we would love to hear from you.

Riverside Health Partnership serves over 23,000 patients in Bassetlaw. We are a busy 4 site practice with a team of 13 GPs, 6 ANPs, an excellent team of Practice Nurses and Health Care Assistants.

We are a consistently high performing GP training practice operating on SystmOne clinical system. The successful applicant must have their own transport as working across fours sites may be necessary.

Main duties of the job

Able to contribute to the provision of a full and comprehensive nursing service to patients of Riverside, with particular lead responsbility for diabetic patients under the guidance of our GP specialists in this field.

Able to provide appropriate preventative health care and advice.

Participate in clinical governance activity and contributing to the improvement in quality of health outcomes through the practices audit programme.

Clinically related administrative and non-clinical duties as necessary

Engage in appropriate educational activity in order to maintain clinical competence and performance, including the completion of objectives agreed by yourself and the practice in an annual Personal Development Plan.

Participating in the training and development of nurses in the practice, when appropriate.

About us

As a practice we embrace new ideas and innovation.

• Training practice with 7 GP trainees
• Great support from PCN staff from the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS)
• In-house practice pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, with a medicines management team
• Excellent and highly skilled nursing team with supportive Nurse Manager
• Monthly nurse meetings with support from a GP Partner

• Monthly In-house and locality-wide protected learning
• High QOF achieving and CQC rated Good
• 5 GP partners, 7 Salaried GPs
• 6 ANPs seeing undifferentiated clinical presentations, performing home-visits
• Retford, market town by A1, <1.5hrs on mainline to London, commuting distance from Newark, Notts, Doncaster, Mansfield, Lincoln, Rotherham and Sheffield
• Good schooling and affordable housing, abundance of countryside pursuits