Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Job summary

We are recruiting Diabetes Specialist Nurses (Band 6), to join our existing nursing team, working in close collaboration with our dietetic, psychology and medical colleagues. We have 2 vacant full-time posts, with the nursing service.

Our diabetes service supports over 600 children and young people with diabetes (aged 0-19 years), across an inpatient and outpatient setting. Since COVID, the service delivery model is a hybrid of both face-to-face and virtual and you will be required to do a mix of working from home and working on site, within UCLH (depending on service needs).

We require an RN (child) nurse with a minimum of 2 years paediatric experience, which includes working with children and/or adolescents with diabetes.

You need to be enthusiastic about working within this specialty; have excellent communication and organisational skills and an ability to work in collaboration with other professionals.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities for this individual will be:

1. To participate in a regular review of the responsibilities of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) as a service provider, examining the structure and processes against all criteria identified in the Best Practice Tariff, National Paediatric Diabetes Audit and Peer review.
2. Responsible for delivering day-to-day care for a caseload of children and young people with diabetes using multiple daily insulin injections, insulin pumps, hybrid closed loop pumps and continuous glucose monitoring.
3. Maintain effective communication with children, young people, families and carers to give information about diabetes to enable informed decisions.
4. Provide nursing support in MDT clinics and Nurse Led clinics (face-to-face and video clinics); telephone clinics and holding the emergency telephone.
5. Responsible for diabetes teaching including education of CYP and families; carers and school staff; student and ward nurses.

About us

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population.

We provide academically-led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas.

Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education and world-class research. We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing) National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital Eastman Dental Hospital

Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre The Hospital for Tropical Diseases University College Hospitals at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

For more information, please access the following link: https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/