Diabetes Nurse Educator

Job summary

A fabulous secondment opportunity has arisen for a band 5 Diabetes Nurse Educator to join our dynamic integrated specialist diabetes team in Stockport.

This post will be perfect for a nurse with at least 12 months experience who wants to pursue a career within the dynamic arena of diabetes. We welcome applications from nurses who enjoy delivering education and have exceptional communication skills. We are a cohesive team who work closely with Consultants and Primary care colleagues alike. We pride ourselves on providing first class care to our people with diabetes.

You will be working in a specialist team and will have a role both with the inpatient diabetes nurses and out in the community seeing patients both in clinic and their own home.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust's policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

Main duties of the job

• To assess, plan, prioritise, implement and evaluate nursing interventions to meet the patients' needs which may be in the community or acute setting in relation to speciality of diabetes.
• Support the Diabetes Specialist Nurse team to provide an evidence-based nursing service, which is responsive to the user's need. Care will reflect current local protocols and evidence based national guidelines and will be delivered through face-to-face consultation or via telephone communication on a day-to-day basis.
• Review care and progress informing diabetes specialist nurse of progress
• To advise, educate and support clients and carers on the management of diabetes by providing specialised programmes of care in relation to health and illness and the development of self-management techniques including individual and group sessions under guidance from diabetes specialists
• Facilitate discharge following plan from diabetes specialist
• Ensure efficient running of individual and group education
• Responsible for the completion of identified audits by the specialist team
• Adhere to Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Conduct and associated guidelines.
• Maintain confidentiality in all aspects of care and employment
• Act as a role model at all times.
• Maintain relevant professional registration.
• Maintain appropriate records adhering to Trust and Nursing &Midwifery Council (NMC) guidelines on record keeping
• Facilitate discharge following plan from diabetes specialist.

About us

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice