Diabetes Practice Nurse

Brownlow Health; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Liverpool is looking for a General Practice Nurse with specialized knowledge in diabetes care. The role emphasizes critical thinking, clinical leadership, and collaboration to ensure comprehensive patient care in a community setting. Candidates will be responsible for supervising staff, mentoring students, and working closely with secondary care teams. A nursing qualification with diabetes specialization is essential. This position offers a supportive and innovative work environment focused on quality care delivery.

Qualifications

• Specialist knowledge in general practice nursing and diabetes care.
• Experience in leadership and supervision of nursing teams.
• Understanding of community health needs and resources.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical practice and support patient care in diabetes.
• Educate and mentor nursing staff and students.
• Collaborate with secondary care teams for patient information flow.

Skills

Critical thinking

Clinical leadership

Collaboration

Emotional intelligence

Reflective practice

Education

Nursing qualification with diabetes specialization

Job description

This role requires consolidation of specialist knowledge and skills in general practice nursing especially diabetes demonstrating a depth of knowledge, understanding and competence that supports evidenced informed, complex, autonomous and independent decision‑making, and care in general practice and related settings. Those new to this role will need a period of preceptor ship. This role will require personal resilience, management, clinical leadership and supervision and mentorship of others in the general practice nursing team and providing an effective learning environment for staff and students in the wider team. The role will require an innovative approach in supporting and developing new models and strategies for service delivery, usually incorporating inter‑professional and inter‑agency approaches to monitor and improve care. General Practice Nurse with Diabetes specialist knowledge to deliver care to the practice population, but also need to have an understanding of the public health profile and population needs in order to be proactive in ensuring services are, as far as possible, matched to need.

Principal Responsibilities

• Enhanced critical thinking and ability to critically analyse a broad range of policies, literature and evidence to support clinical practice.
• Ability to analyse service provision in relation to both quality assurance and quality monitoring, and to focus on patient outcomes wherever possible.
• Strong clinical leadership of the team and clarity of expectation of team members with respect to quality‑of‑care delivery and values inherent in nursing practice. Emotional intelligence to recognise pressures on staff and the development of mechanisms to support and develop staff to recognise the impact of caring for people who may be experiencing complex healthcare issues.
• Enhanced knowledge of the local community and needs and resources available, and the ability to signpost people to appropriate resources.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others to meet local public health needs for individuals, groups and the wider community. Build strong relationships with the secondary care teams, particularly for patients receiving shared care, to ensure an effective flow of patient information to ensure high‑quality care.
• Ability to reflect in action and be actively engaged with the NMC revalidation process both for themselves and for others.

Facilitation of Learning

Actively contributing to a variety of professional networks and sharing learning from these:

• Development of effective team systems for on‑going supervision and promotion of clinical reflection for all staff, preceptor ship programmes and mentorship.
• Identify and support the learning needs of individuals or the team in response to personal development needs identified at appraisal or service need.
• Evaluate the impact of educational interventions.
• Where appropriate, participate in teaching and student selection in higher education institutions and/or other education organisations.
• Develop a positive learning environment for students and the staff team, giving and receiving feedback in an open, honest and constructive manner.