Job summary
We are looking for a Band 8a Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse, with Non-Medical Prescribing and recognised diabetes qualifications.
The post holder will provide the strategic vision, expert clinical leadership and management to develop, implement and evaluate the diabetes nursing service in West London Forensic services.
The role will require advanced clinical skills and experience. The post holder must be able to instigate and review diabetes treatment for both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. You must be able to adjust insulin according to protocols and titrate medicines safely and accurately in line with Diabetes guidelines, policies and NMC standards.
You will educate GP's, Practice Nurses, ward doctors, nurses and AHP's in supporting their patients with diabetes and working collaboratively with MDT in weight management and prevention of diabetes. You will demonstrate strong decision making skills with the ability to motivate other non- specialist practitioners into improving their knowledge in the management of the person with diabetes. You will also provide structured education programmes for people with both Type 1, Type 2 and pre-diabetes.
You will be working in Primary Health care, West London Forensic services, in three different buildings within St-Bernard's Hospital site and will also be required to do ward visits.
The service is still being developed and you will be integral to suggesting new ideas for service improvement and innovative ways of working.
Main duties of the job
- To work closely with members of the multidisciplinary team including lead consultants, GP's, nursing colleagues, other health care professionals, social services and voluntary sector services.
- To hold and manage an active
- To undertake patient assessment, develop, implement and evaluate plans of care for patients with diabetes
- To participate in nurse led clinics, outreach and community clinics and to undertake home visits as required
- Undertake clinical procedures and interventions commensurate with role, including initiating and adjusting medicines including insulin doses as indicated and recommended oral diabetic medication in accordance with national and local guidelines and scope of practice.
- Provide telephone support assessment and advice to people with diabetes on their management in accordance with national and local guidelines/practice.
- To act as a resource for other professional groups, teams and individuals providing care for people with diabetes and their families
- To act as a resource for patients with diabetes and their families and establish follow up systems to provide ongoing support
- To advice and facilitate newly diagnosed people with diabetes to appropriate services
- Ensuring your own actions are consistent with clinical
- To contribute to the development and implementation of clinical guidelines and protocols for the team and other professional groups dealing with people with diabetes, as requested
About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We'rerated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we're committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
- To assess, plan implement and evaluate holistic specialist diabetes nursing care
- To act as a source of specialist advice for adults on management of diabetes.
- To provide expert clinical care for patients with diabetes and those persistently poorly controlled.
- To provide information about diabetes, sick day rules, life-style changes and long-term implications of diabetes.
- Promote health by empowering patients and carers, giving appropriate health education, information and advice to allow them to manage their care
- To instigate treatment and adjust insulin according to protocols and titrate medicines safely and accurately in line with Diabetes Consultant guidance and NMC standards.
- To collect statistical data and activity as required/requested to contribute to e.g. performance report. To attend regular meetings with the Senior Nurse Practitioner to undertake PDP and appraisal. To attend and contribute to multi- disciplinary team meetings across the Forensic Services.
- To represent Forensic Services and/or Specialist Services at appropriate meetings locally, regionally and nationally.
- To assess and support PHC GP, AHP, ward teams and provide specialist support to improve the standards and delivery of diabetes care.
- To support and up skill GPs & Practice Nurses in delivering Level 1 & 2 care in their clinical networks Teams.
- To promote national guidance and policy such as NSF standards and proposed changes to working practices in order to identify patients with diabetes and improve their care. Contribute to the implementation of policies, standards and guidelines within the Integrated Diabetes Service.
- To participate in WLT Nursing
- To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust Register
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Flexibility and adaptability in approach to work.
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Part 1(Adult) NMC Registered Nurse
- Relevant degree or equivalent
- Recognized Diabetes course-such as ENB 928 or Xpert DESMOND &/ BERTIE or DAFNE accreditation
- Mentoring qualification such as ENB 998 or equivalent teaching experience
- Non-Medical Prescribing or about to complete.
Desirable
- Management experience.
- MSc level degree in relevant subject (or working towards)
- Community Nursing qualification / experience
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working at Band 7 in a relevant post.
- Extensive experience of nursing in multidisciplinary team in relevant setting
- Experience in Diabetes or related area in both inpatient and community setting.
- Demonstrate comprehensive and extensive nursing
- Working as a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to lead a team and build strong effective relationships with colleagues
- Experience of multi -professional teaching
- Audit experience.
Desirable
- Experience of change management
- Proven ability to manage own and team members work
- Experience in Research
Knowledge & skills
Essential
- Expert knowledge of diabetes and experience of working with diabetes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Confident presentation skills
- Ability to respond to and cope with change
- Ability to work autonomously
- Proven time management skills and ability to prioritize/ meet deadlines
- IT
- Excellent organisational and clinical
- Leadership
- Team building
- Ability to organise and motivate junior staff.
- Ability to support and supervise
- Proven clinical skills in undertaking assessment, developing, implement and evaluating care plans for people with diabetes.
- Knowledge of current developments in nursing & diabetes
- Understanding of multidisciplinary and inter-professional practice.
- Facilitation Presentation skill
- Teaching in formal and informal settings. Understanding of Clinical
- Is able to demonstrate an understanding and empathy relating to the condition of diabetes and the challenges facing the diabetic
- Knowledge of research and audit in practice.
- Ability to work autonomously and manage and prioritise own work load effectively.
Desirable
- Experience of Quality Improvement
- Experience in use of intensive Diabetes management strategies including CSII
Employer details
Employer name
West London NHS Trust
Address
West London Forensic Services
Primary Health Care
Three Bridges Unit
Uxbridge Road, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 3EU
Employer's website
https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
- To assess, plan implement and evaluate holistic specialist diabetes nursing care
- To act as a source of specialist advice for adults on management of diabetes.
- To provide expert clinical care for patients with diabetes and those persistently poorly controlled.
- To provide information about diabetes, sick day rules, life-style changes and long-term implications of diabetes.
- Promote health by empowering patients and carers, giving appropriate health education, information and advice to allow them to manage their care
- To instigate treatment and adjust insulin according to protocols and titrate medicines safely and accurately in line with Diabetes Consultant guidance and NMC standards.
- To collect statistical data and activity as required/requested to contribute to e.g. performance report. To attend regular meetings with the Senior Nurse Practitioner to undertake PDP and appraisal. To attend and contribute to multi- disciplinary team meetings across the Forensic Services.
- To represent Forensic Services and/or Specialist Services at appropriate meetings locally, regionally and nationally.
- To assess and support PHC GP, AHP, ward teams and provide specialist support to improve the standards and delivery of diabetes care.
- To support and up skill GPs & Practice Nurses in delivering Level 1 & 2 care in their clinical networks Teams.
- To promote national guidance and policy such as NSF standards and proposed changes to working practices in order to identify patients with diabetes and improve their care. Contribute to the implementation of policies, standards and guidelines within the Integrated Diabetes Service.
- To participate in WLT Nursing
- To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust Register
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Flexibility and adaptability in approach to work.
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Part 1(Adult) NMC Registered Nurse
- Relevant degree or equivalent
- Recognized Diabetes course-such as ENB 928 or Xpert DESMOND &/ BERTIE or DAFNE accreditation
- Mentoring qualification such as ENB 998 or equivalent teaching experience
- Non-Medical Prescribing or about to complete.
Desirable
- Management experience.
- MSc level degree in relevant subject (or working towards)
- Community Nursing qualification / experience
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working at Band 7 in a relevant post.
- Extensive experience of nursing in multidisciplinary team in relevant setting
- Experience in Diabetes or related area in both inpatient and community setting.
- Demonstrate comprehensive and extensive nursing
- Working as a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to lead a team and build strong effective relationships with colleagues
- Experience of multi -professional teaching
- Audit experience.
Desirable
- Experience of change management
- Proven ability to manage own and team members work
- Experience in Research
Knowledge & skills
Essential
- Expert knowledge of diabetes and experience of working with diabetes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Confident presentation skills
- Ability to respond to and cope with change
- Ability to work autonomously
- Proven time management skills and ability to prioritize/ meet deadlines
- IT
- Excellent organisational and clinical
- Leadership
- Team building
- Ability to organise and motivate junior staff.
- Ability to support and supervise
- Proven clinical skills in undertaking assessment, developing, implement and evaluating care plans for people with diabetes.
- Knowledge of current developments in nursing & diabetes
- Understanding of multidisciplinary and inter-professional practice.
- Facilitation Presentation skill
- Teaching in formal and informal settings. Understanding of Clinical
- Is able to demonstrate an understanding and empathy relating to the condition of diabetes and the challenges facing the diabetic
- Knowledge of research and audit in practice.
- Ability to work autonomously and manage and prioritise own work load effectively.
Desirable
- Experience of Quality Improvement
- Experience in use of intensive Diabetes management strategies including CSII
Employer details
Employer name
West London NHS Trust
Address
West London Forensic Services
Primary Health Care
Three Bridges Unit
Uxbridge Road, Southall, Middlesex, UB1 3EU
Employer's website
https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Part 1(Adult) NMC Registered Nurse
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience.
- Recognized Diabetes course-such as ENB 928 or Xpert DESMOND &/ BERTIE or DAFNE accreditation
- Mentoring qualification such as ENB 998 or equivalent teaching experience
- Non-Medical Prescribing or about to complete
Desirable
- Management experience
- MSc level degree in relevant subject (or working towards)
- Community Nursing qualification / experience
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working at Band 7 in a relevant post
- Extensive experience of nursing in multidisciplinary team in relevant setting
- Experience in Diabetes or related area in both inpatient and community setting.
- Demonstrate comprehensive and extensive nursing skills.
- Working as a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to lead a team and build strong effective relationships with colleagues
- Experience of multi -professional teaching
- Audit experience
Desirable
- Experience of change management
- Proven ability to manage own and team members work
- Experience in Research
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Expert knowledge of diabetes and experience of working with diabetes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Confident presentation skills
- Ability to respond to and cope with change
- Ability to work autonomously
- Proven time management skills and ability to prioritize/ meet deadlines
- IT skills.
- Excellent organisational and clinical skills.
- Leadership skills.
- Team building skills.
- Ability to organise and motivate junior staff.
- Ability to support and supervise staff.
- Proven clinical skills in undertaking assessment, developing, implement and evaluating care plans for people with diabetes.
- Knowledge of current developments in nursing & diabetes care.
- Understanding of multidisciplinary and inter-professional practice.
- Facilitation skill.
- Presentation skill
- Teaching in formal and informal settings.
- Understanding of Clinical Supervision.
- Is able to demonstrate an understanding and empathy relating to the condition of diabetes and the challenges facing the diabetic patient.
- Knowledge of research and audit in practice.
- Ability to work autonomously and manage and prioritise own work load effectively.
Desirable
- Experience of Quality Improvement
- Experience in use of intensive Diabetes management strategies including CSII
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Flexibility and adaptability in approach to work.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Part 1(Adult) NMC Registered Nurse
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience.
- Recognized Diabetes course-such as ENB 928 or Xpert DESMOND &/ BERTIE or DAFNE accreditation
- Mentoring qualification such as ENB 998 or equivalent teaching experience
- Non-Medical Prescribing or about to complete
Desirable
- Management experience
- MSc level degree in relevant subject (or working towards)
- Community Nursing qualification / experience
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working at Band 7 in a relevant post
- Extensive experience of nursing in multidisciplinary team in relevant setting
- Experience in Diabetes or related area in both inpatient and community setting.
- Demonstrate comprehensive and extensive nursing skills.
- Working as a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to lead a team and build strong effective relationships with colleagues
- Experience of multi -professional teaching
- Audit experience
Desirable
- Experience of change management
- Proven ability to manage own and team members work
- Experience in Research
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Expert knowledge of diabetes and experience of working with diabetes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Confident presentation skills
- Ability to respond to and cope with change
- Ability to work autonomously
- Proven time management skills and ability to prioritize/ meet deadlines
- IT skills.
- Excellent organisational and clinical skills.
- Leadership skills.
- Team building skills.
- Ability to organise and motivate junior staff.
- Ability to support and supervise staff.
- Proven clinical skills in undertaking assessment, developing, implement and evaluating care plans for people with diabetes.
- Knowledge of current developments in nursing & diabetes care.
- Understanding of multidisciplinary and inter-professional practice.
- Facilitation skill.
- Presentation skill
- Teaching in formal and informal settings.
- Understanding of Clinical Supervision.
- Is able to demonstrate an understanding and empathy relating to the condition of diabetes and the challenges facing the diabetic patient.
- Knowledge of research and audit in practice.
- Ability to work autonomously and manage and prioritise own work load effectively.
Desirable
- Experience of Quality Improvement
- Experience in use of intensive Diabetes management strategies including CSII
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Flexibility and adaptability in approach to work.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
