Diabetes Specialist Nurse Cardio-Renal Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Diabetes Specialist Nurse to lead and support on the development of a new integrated neighbourhood service for people who have diabetes with renal or cardiac disease. The post will initially be a 12 month fixed term contract. We are seeking a highly motivated individual with advanced practice and recognised MSc qualification.

The successful candidate will lead on creating a common workflow in cardio-renal-metabolic medicine to address the complex needs of a vulnerable diabetes patient population. The candidate will be working in an integrated neighbourhood holistic diabetes service within two primary care networks in Salford (starting with Eccles PCN) and with Salford Care Organisation Community Diabetes Team. It is in partnership with Boehringer-Ingelheim who are a leading Pharmaceutical Company with experience of working with the NHS on change programmes.

The role will be to support and identify appropriate patients, through audit and practice analysis who will benefit from this holistic diabetes service. The successful candidate will require excellent communication skills and will need to be confident to work alone and within a multidisciplinary team.

The post holder will contribute to achieving clinical objectives, work within the clinical governance framework through the core dimensions of the role, clinical practice, leadership, acting as the patient advocate and through audit and education.

Main duties of the job

• Tackle health inequality, reduce variation in care and improve outcomes by improving access to expertise delivered in the community by a specialist team
• Improve early diagnosis of the complications of diabetes providing individualised care planning and management
• Develop the culture, skills, and resource to promote service integration around the individual
• Provide in-depth analysis of patient data to determine those in need of support from the improvement programme which will ultimately:
• Support Salford PCNs to accurately identify high-risk diabetes patients who have cardiac disease and renal dysfunction using a risk stratification tool.
• Create a clear pathway to refer patients into the Integrated Neighbourhood Holistic Diabetes Service using a tier framework.
• Improve attainment of the three diabetes treatment targets (HBA1C, Blood pressure, Cholesterol) by optimisation of medicines and lifestyle advice and/or referrals.
• Enable access to education, quality improvement skills and support across PCN practices to confidently support patients
• Provide patient education and advice to improve the optimal management of citizens health
• Reduce the risk of further cardiovascular deterioration.
• Improve patient experience and quality of life indicators
• Encourage patient empowerment and ownership of their health.
• Reduce demand on specialist care services
• Deliver seamless transfer of care across the diabetes care pathway.

About us

Salford Integrated diabetes team support patients across both acute and community services. The team is extremely supportive in both provisions of patient care, and team working relationships. Our care is based upon inclusivity, individuality and best practice. We aim to provide the very best patient experience and welcome new team members with positivity and enthusiasm.