Diabetes Inpatient Specialist Nurse

Job summary

The purpose of this post is to:1. Provide education, advice and support to inpatients with diabetes and their carers, under the supervision of the Diabetes Specialist Nurses. The role of this will include supporting patients in a variety of clinics such as pregnancy and diabetes clinics and new patient clinics.2. Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team to promote integrated care for inpatients within the diabetes care.3. To provide a high standard of diabetes care. To act in a consultative role to patients, relatives, and health professionals on the management of diabetes mellitus.4. The post holder will utilise skills to assess and identify inpatient needs and implement delivery of appropriate individualised care for people with diabetes.5. The post holder will take daily responsibility for managing a defined caseload, with the support of existing nursing and medical staff. Specialist holistic advice and education will be provided for in patients and their carers, referring on as appropriate for follow up care on discharge.Trust Vision

Main duties of the job

As a member of the diabetes nursing team, maintains relevant statistics to monitor inpatient activity and workload.2. Communicates effectively with hospital and community services relating to:a) The hospital to home transition periodb) Follow up and stabilisation of diabetes in the community3. Works with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to provide a comprehensive care package to patients with diabetes.4. Assessment of inpatients with diabetes to help identify physical and emotional problems relating to the condition5. Educate and support inpatients, relatives, and carers to facilitate optimum diabetes control.6. Able to refer to the appropriate member of the multidisciplinary team to assist with problem solving7. Facilitates continuity of care and communication.8. Utilises reflective practice to improve care.9. Able to access up to date information on diabetes10. Compliments

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.