Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

We are looking for enthusiastic and experienced Registered Adult Nurses to join the Northumbria Trustwide Specialist Diabetes service. You will have post registration experience in either a hospital or community clinical setting, and relevant recent diabetes nursing experience.

These posts will be based within either the locality teams at Wansbeck or North Tyneside General Hospitals and will be part of the wider specialist nursing team. The post holder will work flexibly and may be required to work at other sites across the Trust. A full driving license is essential and you must be able to meet the travel requirements of this post.

A robust Trust induction programme and continuous Diabetes Specialist Nurse support and training will be provided.

Main duties of the job

Northumbria diabetes service has established principles of multidisciplinary team working. A core part of the specialist service work is the delivery of structured teaching and training courses to both health care professionals and people with diabetes, and supporting and mentoring student nurses during their placement in the diabetes service.

As a member of the Trust wide diabetes nursing team, post holders will take responsibility for the provision of expert diabetes nursing care

You must be able to work effectively as part of a team and independently using a high level of interpersonal skills.

You will work across specialist, secondary and primary care services, providing complex case management and supporting people with diabetes in the community, and act as a resource to community teams. As a diabetes specialist nurse you will monitor and deliver on-going support to people newly diagnosed with diabetes and initiate patient treatment plans both in the community and hospital settings, whilst also contributing expertise in the multidisciplinary specialist diabetes clinics. You will be supported and supervised by our experienced team of band 7 DSN's and wider MDT.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Date posted

07 June 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£32,306 to £39,027 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

319-4181492JN

Job locations

North Tyneside General Hospital

Rake Lane

North Shields

NE29 8NH

Job description

Job responsibilities

To plan, implement and develop specialist nursing care for people with diabetes to enable them to remain well within the community and where possible takeresponsibility for managing their own health.
To provide expert advice for all health care professionals involved in the care of people with diabetes to ensure an effective, high quality service both in the hospital and community. To provide teaching and training to people with diabetes and to health care professionals providing diabetes care. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To plan, implement and develop specialist nursing care for people with diabetes to enable them to remain well within the community and where possible takeresponsibility for managing their own health.
To provide expert advice for all health care professionals involved in the care of people with diabetes to ensure an effective, high quality service both in the hospital and community. To provide teaching and training to people with diabetes and to health care professionals providing diabetes care. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

o 1 ST Level Live NMC required Registered Nurse
Teaching qualification (ENB 998/997, C&G730 or equivalent

Desirable

o Counselling skills/certificate
o ENB 928 or equivalent
o Diploma or Degree in Nursing or associated area of healthcare
o Diabetes nursing course

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

o 1 ST Level Live NMC required Registered Nurse
Teaching qualification (ENB 998/997, C&G730 or equivalent

Desirable

o Counselling skills/certificate
o ENB 928 or equivalent
o Diploma or Degree in Nursing or associated area of healthcare
o Diabetes nursing course

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).