Diabetes Specialist Nurse
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Diabetes Specialist Nurse to join our dynamic diabetes specialist nursing team in Herefordshire.
If you do not have previous experience working in diabetes nursing, but are interested in developing a rewarding career in diabetes specialist nursing; a band 5/6 development role with a tailored induction plan and dedicated time and support to achieve TREND-UK aligned diabetes specialist nurse competencies can be considered.
The post will be focusing on providing diabetes specialist nursing support to people with Type 1 diabetes, within a wider diabetes MDT approach. This will include working with young adults with diabetes, and those transitioning from Paediatrics to Adult diabetes care. There will also be opportunities to support wider diabetes specialist nursing activities.
The successful candidate will work full time (37.5h/week) as part of the multidisciplinary team across primary and secondary care with the aim of:
- Providing and supporting high quality holistic individualised diabetes care to patients, their families and/or carers.
- Preventing diabetes related hospital admission
- Promoting a greater understanding of diabetes and empowering patients, their families and carers and other agencies and professionals involved with the patient through education, support and counselling
- Nurturing collaboration and shared decision making
Main duties of the job
- Working as part of a wider Multi-Disciplinary Team, you will be involved in the assessment, review and complex care planning, employing the use of diabetes technologies, where appropriate, for people with diabetes, in order to provide seamless, integrated care.
- Representing diabetes specialist nursing team and attending multidisciplinary meetings and diabetes clinics in hospital and the community
- Conducting patient reviews in a wide range of settings, depending on service and clinical needs.
- Delivering structured education to people with diabetes, their families and carers/other agencies.
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
Details
Date posted
26 July 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
Depending on experience Dependant on experience. Development band 5/6 post possible
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
229-MED-6475782
Job locations
Hereford County Hospital
Union Walk
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Hereford County Hospital
Union Walk
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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