Practice Nurse/ Nurse Educator - Diabetes

Job responsibilities

This 12 month secondment post with a possibility to extend for another year will support the T2Day: Type 2 diabetes in the young programme of the South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (SYICB). The programme has been launched by NHS England as people aged 18-39 living with type 2 diabetes are less likely to receive all their annual diabetes health checks. By ensuring people receive these checks, the NHS hopes it will minimise the risk of people going on to develop complications of diabetes in later life.

The ideal candidates for the role will have knowledge and experience in the following areas:

• Communication and relational skills
• Ability to liaise effectively with senior stakeholders, managers, and clinicians across different organisations.
• Candidates will also have excellent interpersonal skills and will be comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholder organisations in GP practices, community services, acute trusts, voluntary sector, and private sector.
• You will be key to influencing change across multiple organisations, you should be able to work flexibly, creatively and be open to new ways of doing things.

Main duties will include:

• To support the clinical Lead in creating a SYICB Diabetes factsheet to understand the wider impact of diabetes in young adults with Type 2 Diabetes and highlight effective interventions with plans to implement it.
• To work closely with clinical Leads to proactively identify young adults with Early onset Type 2 Diabetes in SYICB.
• You will work closely with clinical application team to support the design of T2Day Diabetes clinical page for clinical systems across each place and ensure appropriate coding is in place for the T2Day programme.
• The post holder will work closely with medical education colleagues to develop and deliver multi-disciplinary education/ training for primary care team, midwives, and other clinical staff and raise awareness of the T2Day programme.
• You will act as a resource for health care professionals and support primary care staff development, role model best practice, plus undertake bite size teaching and educational projects as required and assist in the design and delivery of T2day educational programmes.
• To establish link with key multidisciplinary teams retinal screening, obesity, and public health teams to raise awareness of the T2Day.
• You will be working closely with the clinicians and contribute to the development and implementation of clinical protocols and guidelines and will work towards developing a structured approach in diabetes care.
• To support the T2Day programme team and to ensure that the T2Day programme provides targeted intervention for each person under the age of 40 living with type 2 diabetes in SYICB, including additional reviews focused on completing proven diabetes care processes, managing blood sugar levels, weight management, preparation for pregnancy, and supporting any unmet psychological or social needs.
• They will contribute to the overall development of the programme, scoping new projects and innovations, responding to emerging knowledge and techniques, and ensuring that the T2Day programme is person centred, evidence based, accessible, needs led and integrated.
• Lead projects/provide support to projects as requested and/or agreed with programme manager.
• The post holder will participate and contribute to the audit or quality improvement projects and support the project officer to enhance the quality and effectiveness of the T2Day service.
• To work with the T2Day team to highlight or signpost the development of culturally appropriate T2Day services for patients from black and minority ethnic (BAME) groups and other minority / excluded groups.
• To support the Diabetes specialist midwife to standardise the implementation of a postnatal screening guideline and annual HbA1c for all women who have had a previous diagnosis of GDM in primary care.
• To support Diabetes specialist Midwife to ensure systems are standardised for follow-up of women with GDM in primary care with implementation of a call / recall system and development of a post-GDM care pathway in primary care.
• Ensuring every young adult with Type 2 diabetes age 18-39 has access to vital routine diabetes care as this is proven to be lower in this age group putting those affected at a higher risk of potentially devastating complications.
• To utilise every opportunity to address these existing inequalities in type 2 diabetes care.
• Ensuring the Type 2 Diabetes in the Young initiative will run alongside, the highly effective NHSs Type 2 Diabetes Path to Remission Programme.
• Working with place leads to increase referrals across South Yorkshire to the National Diabetes Prevention programme (NDPP), NHS Type 2 Diabetes Path to Remission Programme (T2DR) and Structured Education programme including Healthy Living with Type 2 Diabetes (a digital structured education programme)
• They will also contribute to the overall development of the programme, scoping new projects and innovations.

Location/Base: One of the 4 NHS South Yorkshire Bases (Hilder House: Barnsley, Sovereign House: Doncaster, Oak House: Rotherham or 722 Darnell: Sheffield), with regular travel across South Yorkshire and including hybrid arrangements working from home.

Qualifications

Essential

• First level nursing registration
• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Evidence of further training at diploma level or above in LTC management or equivalent experience in diabetes specialist area
• Teaching and Mentoring qualification or equivalent experience
• Evidence of further training at diploma level or above in LTC management or equivalent experience in specialist area

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in designing and creating clinical pages on clinical systems
• Understanding of clinical coding
• Trained in Basic Life Support
• Practice nursing experience

Desirable

• Motivational interviewing and coaching experience
• Evidence leadership and management experience

Knowledge and Understanding

Essential

• Experience in a senior nursing post of managing people with Diabetes and other LTC
• Understanding of primary care structures and ways of working
• Evidence of working effectively and collaboratively across professional and organisational boundaries
• Evidence of being able to drive forward and develop practice and service provision locally
• Understanding of audit and evaluation
• Evidence of innovative working
• Evidence of project management
• Involvement in the planning, development and implementation of services
• Experience of managing conflict and change

Desirable

• Experience as a senior nurse managing colleagues
• Experience of working in primary care
• Experience of writing proposals, business cases and service specifications
• Experience of participating in or initiating research or audit

Attributes

Essential

• Ability to manage a demanding workload and priorities effectively
• Excellent time management skills
• Able to adapt to changing needs of the service
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Motivated and able to motivate others
• Commitment to professional development
• The duties of this post require travelling throughout the places on a regular basis, therefore the post holder must be independently mobile

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• In depth knowledge of national policies and guidance including NICE guidance related to at least one specialist LTC
• Specialist level knowledge and skills in LTCs where appropriate
• Knowledge of long-term conditions management and pathways to support the reduction of unplanned hospital admissions
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and make independent decisions
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to communicate effectively with wide range of professionals across primary and secondary care
• Understanding of clinical governance issues
• Ability to support learning and education for patients and practitioners
• Good sound knowledge of IT systems and emerging technology including Microsoft Teams and ZOOM
• Have the ability to critically appraise a range of data and information to determine their impact or relevance
• Presentation Skills
• Working knowledge of primary care clinical software e.g., Emis Web, Ardens, SystmOne

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).