Job summary
Are you an experienced and inspirational nurse leader with diabetes expertise?
We have an excellent opportunity for a band 8a Diabetes Team Lead to join/lead our small but well established team.
As Diabetes Team Lead you will be leading on service transformation and quality improvement projects whilst striving to take diabetes care to the next level.
You will have a passion for the development of services including the delivery of education, training and advice and guidance to both patients and health care professionals, as well as the clinical pathways across the Trust.
Working closely with neighbouring Trusts and Primary Care Networks you will need to be a skilled communicator and used to working with multiple professional groups. Along with the proven ability to work collaboratively with system partners to deliver safe and effective clinical services.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be able to:
- Provide expert clinical care, exercising professional autonomy within their field of expertise
- Lead a team of professionals/practitioners to provide a high quality, effective and efficient service within the in and outpatient diabetic service
- Lead and consult on the development and evaluation of the service with the wider multidisciplinary team
- Be an active participant in the development of the Diabetes pathway across Oxfordshire and the integration with BOB and respective partners
- Participate in the provision of specialist education and training programmes
- Raise the profile of the service at local, national and international level
- Participate in a collaborative research programme
About us
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive:"Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"
Our values are:"Caring, safe and excellent"
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Job description
Job responsibilities
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical Practice:
- Provide expert care for patients/clients and their care givers using the post holders expertise.
- Have specialist knowledge of patient group across a range of clinical issues, underpinned by the theory and practice acquired through study at masters level or equivalent experience.
- Act as a role model of expert nursing practice with specialist knowledge in diabetes.
- Establish, implement, and monitor trust guidelines, policies, and protocols with regard to the specific client group.
- Initiate and accept referrals to and from other disciplines within agreed service specifications.
- Participate in multi-disciplinary reviews and assessments.
- Work unsupervised to advise, recommend and generate care pathways for client group, ensuring on-going evaluation and review.
- Be professionally accountable and support the team to manage their caseload.
- Exercise professional autonomy and make critical judgements in their field of expertise.
- Monitor and record clinical outcomes through evaluation, audit and review.
- Ensure evidence-based practice in all clinical work and promote the development of an evidence base in area of specialist expertise.
- Order specific diagnostic interventions.
Leadership and Management:
- Lead and consult on the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/guidelines/protocols relevant to specialist area and wider health care arena.
- Lead within clinical governance processes, including adverse incident reporting/investigation and management of complaints, whether relevant to their area of practice/expertise or outside.
- Take a lead role in preparation for Peer Review programmes
- Take an active lead role for audit national and local audits disseminating any relevant information resulting from the audits that will help improve the diabetes care delivered in the trust.
- Act as a role model, to promote consistently high standards of professional practice.
- Ensure that nursing care is based on sound evidence and rationale within the departments, linking with other members of the wider team where appropriate.
- Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries proactively developing and sustaining new partnerships and networks to influence and improve health outcomes and healthcare delivery systems.
- Develop strategies to regularly review patient and user perceptions of specialist area to facilitate the engagement of patients and carers in service development.
- Collaborate with colleagues who lead service and business planning with regard to cost pressure and prioritising.
- Manage and be an authorized signatory for relevant hospital and charitable fund accounts.
- Line manager and provide clinical supervision as appropriate to the role.
- Participate in the on-call rota.
- Clinically deputise for the Senior Clinical Lead in their absence.
Education & Training:
- Participate in provision of specialist education and training programmes for health care professionals and patients. Utilise professional knowledge and expertise in education, training and development in the field of expertise.
- Identify and respond to learning needs of individuals and teams to develop advanced knowledge and skills.
- Take the lead role in the professional development of the staff through active planning of the formal courses each staff member undertakes at a given time without compromising the service delivery at any time of the course.
- Support the integration of theory and practice through formal and informal methods, including clinical educational opportunities.
- Maintain relationships with university partners to support the aims of the profession and the service, including contribution to formal and informal curriculum activity.
- Support colleagues undertaking higher level and postgraduate study by acting as mentor or supervisor.
Improving Quality and Developing Practice:
- Demonstrate a commitment to evidence-based practice and clinical excellence and lead staff in the implementation of such practice.
- Support and facilitate practice development, audit and project/research activity within the diabetes service, contributing to the continuous improvement in service quality.
- Raise the profile of the service at local, national and international level by contributing to professional and service debate and through professional activity, publications and presentations at conferences.
- Use professional judgement in managing complex and unpredictable care events and uses reflective practice to learn from these experiences and in turn improve patient care and service delivery.
- Provide expert professional input to appropriate health improvement programmes to meet the local agenda in line with the national framework.
- Take a lead in promoting and managing change to improve practice, coordinating existing resources and developing links, locally and nationally.
- Act as a role model, to promote consistently high standards of professional practice.
- Share expert knowledge, advise practitioners locally, regionally, and nationally, based on evidence based best practice.
- Participate, facilitate, and initiate regular clinical and management supervision.
- Provide support to specialist nurses within the team, defining the additional needs of those with less experience.
- Identify own development needs in line with service requirements within personal development plan and proactively see to develop and improve own competence.
- Uses advanced communication skills and contribute to the wider development of those working in their area of practice by publicizing and disseminating their work through presentations at conferences and articles in the professional press.
- Contribute to the meaningful development of public involvement in service design and delivery.
- Lead and consult on the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/guidelines/ protocols relevant to the specialty and wider health care arena.
- Frequently critically appraises and synthesizes the outcomes of relevant research and evaluations and applied them to improve practice.
- Build a culture of audit and research in practice, in line with national research agendas and priorities, and publish articles in appropriate journals.
- Collaborate with Oxford Brooks University and other educational facilities working in partnership with the OUH to ensure that students and service needs are adequately supported, and that Advanced Nurse Practitioners/Specialist Nurse Practitioners, Sisters/Charge Nurses and other Senior Nurses are involved in the audit and development of the learning environment.
- Develop strategies to regularly review patient and user perceptions of the specialty to facilitate the engagement of patients and carers in service development.
- Work within the wider research framework of Oxford Health to support and develop local research priorities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical Practice:
- Provide expert care for patients/clients and their care givers using the post holders expertise.
- Have specialist knowledge of patient group across a range of clinical issues, underpinned by the theory and practice acquired through study at masters level or equivalent experience.
- Act as a role model of expert nursing practice with specialist knowledge in diabetes.
- Establish, implement, and monitor trust guidelines, policies, and protocols with regard to the specific client group.
- Initiate and accept referrals to and from other disciplines within agreed service specifications.
- Participate in multi-disciplinary reviews and assessments.
- Work unsupervised to advise, recommend and generate care pathways for client group, ensuring on-going evaluation and review.
- Be professionally accountable and support the team to manage their caseload.
- Exercise professional autonomy and make critical judgements in their field of expertise.
- Monitor and record clinical outcomes through evaluation, audit and review.
- Ensure evidence-based practice in all clinical work and promote the development of an evidence base in area of specialist expertise.
- Order specific diagnostic interventions.
Leadership and Management:
- Lead and consult on the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/guidelines/protocols relevant to specialist area and wider health care arena.
- Lead within clinical governance processes, including adverse incident reporting/investigation and management of complaints, whether relevant to their area of practice/expertise or outside.
- Take a lead role in preparation for Peer Review programmes
- Take an active lead role for audit national and local audits disseminating any relevant information resulting from the audits that will help improve the diabetes care delivered in the trust.
- Act as a role model, to promote consistently high standards of professional practice.
- Ensure that nursing care is based on sound evidence and rationale within the departments, linking with other members of the wider team where appropriate.
- Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries proactively developing and sustaining new partnerships and networks to influence and improve health outcomes and healthcare delivery systems.
- Develop strategies to regularly review patient and user perceptions of specialist area to facilitate the engagement of patients and carers in service development.
- Collaborate with colleagues who lead service and business planning with regard to cost pressure and prioritising.
- Manage and be an authorized signatory for relevant hospital and charitable fund accounts.
- Line manager and provide clinical supervision as appropriate to the role.
- Participate in the on-call rota.
- Clinically deputise for the Senior Clinical Lead in their absence.
Education & Training:
- Participate in provision of specialist education and training programmes for health care professionals and patients. Utilise professional knowledge and expertise in education, training and development in the field of expertise.
- Identify and respond to learning needs of individuals and teams to develop advanced knowledge and skills.
- Take the lead role in the professional development of the staff through active planning of the formal courses each staff member undertakes at a given time without compromising the service delivery at any time of the course.
- Support the integration of theory and practice through formal and informal methods, including clinical educational opportunities.
- Maintain relationships with university partners to support the aims of the profession and the service, including contribution to formal and informal curriculum activity.
- Support colleagues undertaking higher level and postgraduate study by acting as mentor or supervisor.
Improving Quality and Developing Practice:
- Demonstrate a commitment to evidence-based practice and clinical excellence and lead staff in the implementation of such practice.
- Support and facilitate practice development, audit and project/research activity within the diabetes service, contributing to the continuous improvement in service quality.
- Raise the profile of the service at local, national and international level by contributing to professional and service debate and through professional activity, publications and presentations at conferences.
- Use professional judgement in managing complex and unpredictable care events and uses reflective practice to learn from these experiences and in turn improve patient care and service delivery.
- Provide expert professional input to appropriate health improvement programmes to meet the local agenda in line with the national framework.
- Take a lead in promoting and managing change to improve practice, coordinating existing resources and developing links, locally and nationally.
- Act as a role model, to promote consistently high standards of professional practice.
- Share expert knowledge, advise practitioners locally, regionally, and nationally, based on evidence based best practice.
- Participate, facilitate, and initiate regular clinical and management supervision.
- Provide support to specialist nurses within the team, defining the additional needs of those with less experience.
- Identify own development needs in line with service requirements within personal development plan and proactively see to develop and improve own competence.
- Uses advanced communication skills and contribute to the wider development of those working in their area of practice by publicizing and disseminating their work through presentations at conferences and articles in the professional press.
- Contribute to the meaningful development of public involvement in service design and delivery.
- Lead and consult on the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/guidelines/ protocols relevant to the specialty and wider health care arena.
- Frequently critically appraises and synthesizes the outcomes of relevant research and evaluations and applied them to improve practice.
- Build a culture of audit and research in practice, in line with national research agendas and priorities, and publish articles in appropriate journals.
- Collaborate with Oxford Brooks University and other educational facilities working in partnership with the OUH to ensure that students and service needs are adequately supported, and that Advanced Nurse Practitioners/Specialist Nurse Practitioners, Sisters/Charge Nurses and other Senior Nurses are involved in the audit and development of the learning environment.
- Develop strategies to regularly review patient and user perceptions of the specialty to facilitate the engagement of patients and carers in service development.
- Work within the wider research framework of Oxford Health to support and develop local research priorities.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Diabetes management
- Leadership qualification/experience
- Delivering education
Desirable
- Evidence of change management
- Community experience
- people management
- Involvement in research
Knowledge
Essential
Desirable
- Knowledge of BOB ICB and local diabetes partners
Skills
Essential
- Professional registration
Desirable
- Non-medical prescribing
- MSc qualification in Diabetes
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Diabetes management
- Leadership qualification/experience
- Delivering education
Desirable
- Evidence of change management
- Community experience
- people management
- Involvement in research
Knowledge
Essential
Desirable
- Knowledge of BOB ICB and local diabetes partners
Skills
Essential
- Professional registration
Desirable
- Non-medical prescribing
- MSc qualification in Diabetes
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).
