Job summary
- To work autonomously in the provision of specialist, evidence based diabetes care with a focus on the 16 to 25 year olds
- To provide a high quality community service for people with diabetes within Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust.
- To assist in the implementation and adoption of local agreed diabetes policies and guidelines
- To maintain Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust Standards in all aspects of the job.
- To support transitional patients ensuring innovation is maximised in promoting engagement.
Main duties of the job
We are recruiting to a full time diabetes transition specialist nurse working closely with age groups between 16 and 25 years.
To provide care in both the acute and community setting for people with diabetes including clinics in GP surgeries, health centres and patient homes
To work within a multidisciplinary team alongside consultants, nurses, podiatrists, dietitians and educators
To deliver both patient and health care professional education sessions in accordance with the service level agreement.
About us
You will work closely with the Consultants, Clinical Nurse Specialists and other multidisciplinary team members playing an important role in the delivery of care and management of people with diabetes both in the community and acute setting. Based between Bentley Medical Centre and Manor hospital you must be able to work autonomously supporting this population across the borough of Walsall , organize your workload effectively and adapt to, as well as drive change at a local level, being flexible is key. You should be a registered nurse or desirable registered childrens nurse with a minimum of 5 years post registration experience in nursing. A post graduate qualification in diabetes or experience in diabetes clinical care would be preferred
Job description
Job responsibilities
To develop skills in insulin pump therapy and continuous blood glucose monitoring.
Communication
Communication and relationship to the work team and to other departments:
- Communicate effectively and maintain good working relationships with non-clinical and clinical colleagues and all other members of the multi-disciplinary team i.e. GPs, Social Care and Independent Sector to provide a co-ordinated and efficient patient focused service.
- Demonstrates leadership through clinical expertise, delivering high standards of person-centred care to children and young adults with diabetes
- Promotes a culture that supports and enables self-management.
- Contributes to the delivery of specialist education and training to other professionals involved within diabetes patient care.
- Supports and contributes to the development and promotion of the diabetes nursing service ensuring the delivery of high quality, cost-effective care.
- Supports patient and public involvement within the sphere of practice.
- Supports and contributes to quantitative and qualitative data collection of the diabetes nursing service in order to provide evidence of productivity, outcomes and quality
- Supports and contributes to the implementation and monitoring of adherence to relevant clinical guidelines.
- Takes professional responsibility for ensuring effective communication between all service providers across the care pathway within secondary and primary care setting
- Actively participates in multi-professional meetings, acting as patient advocate and representing nursing views.
- Acts as a role model for excellent communication skills and expertise.
- Develops skills in conflict resolution and negotiation skills when dealing with difficult or challenging situations.
- Supports the development of patient focussed education, including training to self-manage ongoing consequences of treatment.
Innovation:
- Develops new skills in response to emerging knowledge and techniques.
- Works across professional boundaries using creative reasoning and problem-solving
- Supports and manages change within a complex environment.
- Influences the development of others through education and training.
- Utilises patient and public experience feedback to drive innovation and change.
Mastery:
- Develops clinical, technical and research skills through breadth and depth of knowledge.
- Develops and uses clinical expertise, clinical acumen, creative reasoning and experience to advance care.
- Demonstrates evaluation of nursing practice and suggests changes as appropriate.
- Takes personal responsibility for life-long learning and personal development through clinical supervision, appraisal and Knowledge and Skills Framework.
Excellence (clinical):
- Puts quality at the heart of practice by delivering evidence based individualised and personalised care through holistic needs assessment, care planning and evaluation of care and all care interventions.
- Actively integrates theory and practice
- Assess children and young adults information needs and provides relevant information to meet those needs through the use of information prescriptions.
- Supports children and young adults to access, identify, appraise and interpret complex technical information, to enable them to determine their own future.
- Supports the nursing contribution to service development, ensuring the pursuit of excellence in care.
- Follows an agreed care pathway, refers to other professionals and sign-posts to other agencies as appropriate.
- Promotes the service and clinical excellence by contributing to publishing and presenting innovations, audit and research locally, regionally and nationally.
- Supports and contributes to the development of policy and clinical guidelines.
- Promotes self-management, undertaking risk stratification to determine those who can self-manage, following education, those who will need guided support to self-manage and those who will require on-going, face to face support in order to support children and young people to live with Diabetes and its treatment.
Responds promptly and appropriately to external and internal telephone queries from clients, carers/relatives, members of the general public and members of the multi-disciplinary team
Job description
Job responsibilities
To develop skills in insulin pump therapy and continuous blood glucose monitoring.
Communication
Communication and relationship to the work team and to other departments:
- Communicate effectively and maintain good working relationships with non-clinical and clinical colleagues and all other members of the multi-disciplinary team i.e. GPs, Social Care and Independent Sector to provide a co-ordinated and efficient patient focused service.
- Demonstrates leadership through clinical expertise, delivering high standards of person-centred care to children and young adults with diabetes
- Promotes a culture that supports and enables self-management.
- Contributes to the delivery of specialist education and training to other professionals involved within diabetes patient care.
- Supports and contributes to the development and promotion of the diabetes nursing service ensuring the delivery of high quality, cost-effective care.
- Supports patient and public involvement within the sphere of practice.
- Supports and contributes to quantitative and qualitative data collection of the diabetes nursing service in order to provide evidence of productivity, outcomes and quality
- Supports and contributes to the implementation and monitoring of adherence to relevant clinical guidelines.
- Takes professional responsibility for ensuring effective communication between all service providers across the care pathway within secondary and primary care setting
- Actively participates in multi-professional meetings, acting as patient advocate and representing nursing views.
- Acts as a role model for excellent communication skills and expertise.
- Develops skills in conflict resolution and negotiation skills when dealing with difficult or challenging situations.
- Supports the development of patient focussed education, including training to self-manage ongoing consequences of treatment.
Innovation:
- Develops new skills in response to emerging knowledge and techniques.
- Works across professional boundaries using creative reasoning and problem-solving
- Supports and manages change within a complex environment.
- Influences the development of others through education and training.
- Utilises patient and public experience feedback to drive innovation and change.
Mastery:
- Develops clinical, technical and research skills through breadth and depth of knowledge.
- Develops and uses clinical expertise, clinical acumen, creative reasoning and experience to advance care.
- Demonstrates evaluation of nursing practice and suggests changes as appropriate.
- Takes personal responsibility for life-long learning and personal development through clinical supervision, appraisal and Knowledge and Skills Framework.
Excellence (clinical):
- Puts quality at the heart of practice by delivering evidence based individualised and personalised care through holistic needs assessment, care planning and evaluation of care and all care interventions.
- Actively integrates theory and practice
- Assess children and young adults information needs and provides relevant information to meet those needs through the use of information prescriptions.
- Supports children and young adults to access, identify, appraise and interpret complex technical information, to enable them to determine their own future.
- Supports the nursing contribution to service development, ensuring the pursuit of excellence in care.
- Follows an agreed care pathway, refers to other professionals and sign-posts to other agencies as appropriate.
- Promotes the service and clinical excellence by contributing to publishing and presenting innovations, audit and research locally, regionally and nationally.
- Supports and contributes to the development of policy and clinical guidelines.
- Promotes self-management, undertaking risk stratification to determine those who can self-manage, following education, those who will need guided support to self-manage and those who will require on-going, face to face support in order to support children and young people to live with Diabetes and its treatment.
Responds promptly and appropriately to external and internal telephone queries from clients, carers/relatives, members of the general public and members of the multi-disciplinary team
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse (with at least 5 years post graduate clinical experience)
- Degree in nursing or related subject
- Post-basic qualification in children's diabetes care in community or relevant subject or working towards
Desirable
- Registered children's nurse
Experience
Essential
- Experience of teaching/public speaking
- Relevant post registration experience, at Band 5 or above, working with children with diabetes
- Clinical experience with management of children with diabetes- inpatient and outpatient
Skills
Essential
- Able to present as efficient and calm when communicating with the general public, with staff, senior managers and staff from other agencies/departments
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse (with at least 5 years post graduate clinical experience)
- Degree in nursing or related subject
- Post-basic qualification in children's diabetes care in community or relevant subject or working towards
Desirable
- Registered children's nurse
Experience
Essential
- Experience of teaching/public speaking
- Relevant post registration experience, at Band 5 or above, working with children with diabetes
- Clinical experience with management of children with diabetes- inpatient and outpatient
Skills
Essential
- Able to present as efficient and calm when communicating with the general public, with staff, senior managers and staff from other agencies/departments
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
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).
