Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Integrated Care System; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is looking for an experienced Diabetes Specialist Nurse to join their team. This role involves providing specialized nursing care, education, and support for diabetic patients while managing a nurse-led clinic. Ideal candidates will have a strong clinical background, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to patient-centered care.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with postgraduate qualification or certificate in diabetes.
• Extensive experience in managing patients with diabetes autonomously.
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist advice and education for Type 1 and Complex Type 2 diabetic patients.
• Manage the outpatient Diabetes Pre-operative Clinic autonomously.
• Educate and develop training programs for healthcare staff.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work autonomously

Clinical skills relevant to diabetes care

IT literate

Education

Registered Nurse with current NMC registration

Postgraduate qualification or Certificate in Diabetes

Non-Medical Prescribing

Mentorship/Teaching Qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Diabetes Specialist nurse to join the diabetes team at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital. We are seeking someone who is committed to making a difference, is highly motivated and displays excellent communication skills. You will be working with other diabetes nurses and medical staff to provide specialist advice and education for both Type 1 and Complex Type 2 Diabetic cardiothoracic patients. In addition you will provide education for other healthcare professionals within the hospital Trust. The post includes providing clinical excellence and specialist nursing advice within the inpatient and outpatient setting via our pre-operative nurse led clinic.

Main duties of the job

To work within a multidisciplinary team to provide a specialist diabetes nursing service for adults throughout the trust with diabetes, and those at risk of developing diabetes. Delivering treatment, education, and support for patients and their families.

To manage the outpatients Diabetes Pre-operative Clinic (fully nurse-led), providing specialised diabetes treatment to optimise patients pre-operatively in a limited time frame.

Provide education and develop learning programmes for staff throughout the trust.

To be responsible for maintaining and enhancing professional standards of diabetes care.

To act as a specialist diabetes resource for medical and nursing staff and allied health care professionals.

About us

As the largest single site specialist heart and chest hospital in the UK, we, at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, have a clear vision 'to be the best cardiothoracic integrated healthcare organisation'.

We provide specialist servicesin cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, respiratory medicine both in the hospital and out in the community.

We serve a catchment area of 2.8 million people, spanning Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales and the Isle of Man, and increasingly we receive referrals from outside these areas for highly specialised services such as aortics.

Our reputation for strong performance is important in delivering the best care for our patients and high quality clinical services. This is underpinned by a culture of research and innovation, delivered in modern estate and our encouragement of flexible working in a variety of forms.

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Job responsibilities

To work autonomously in a fully nurse-led service.

To act as a competent independent nurse prescriber.

To confidently diagnose diabetes/impaired glucose regulation.

To be accountable for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patientcare within the diabetes team.

To confidently prescribe insulin when appropriate and titrate accordingly.

To confidently manage NG feed related hyperglycaemia/steroids induced hyperglycaemia; and initiate insulin as/when appropriate.

To manage the pre-op diabetes clinic, including managing all administrative processes of referrals, waiting lists, documentation, discharges and follow-up letters.

To use specialised/expert knowledge to optimise patients in the outpatient clinic in a limited timeframe, managing both face-to-face and telephone appointments as appropriate.

To act as an expert resource and provide advice about the management of diabetes to health care professionals within the trust.

To have a good understanding and awareness of technology within diabetes, commencing patients on continuous glucose monitoring devices and providing appropriate education and support.

To support patients and staff in managing devices such as insulin pumps and closed-loop systems.

To use advanced clinical experience in diabetes care, as well as theoretical knowledge toprovide a high level of specialist care to people with diabetes.

To teach patients how to manage their medication/insulin and own blood glucose monitoring.

To provide on-going care and information on how to self-manage their chronic disease with a view to reducing long term complications, through altered medication and lifestyle modification.

To provide highly specialised advice about diagnosis and treatment of diabetes to senior colleagues.

To manage a defined patient caseload, working unsupervised and using specialist diabetes nursing skills to assess needs of the person with diabetes, and to plan, implement, document, and evaluate programmes of care. This includes referrals to other diabetes services outside of the Trust.

To implement advice and support at an advanced level, directly to patients or relatives/carers, providing information to those who are newly diagnosed or with longstanding diabetes.

To undertake assessment of patients/groups with complex problems by using clinical, investigative, and analytical skills to make difficult decisions about treatment and management plans.

Provide education and training for all health care professionals in the safe management and care of patients with diabetes in the acute setting.

To provide education for patients and teaching on how to self-manage complex diabetes.

Identify, initiate, develop, coordinate, and participate in new educational initiatives for staff development.

Demonstrate professional leadership and assist in the writing of protocols, policies and guidelines in relation to diabetes in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Postgraduate qualification or Certificate in Diabetes
• oNon-Medical Prescribing
• Mentorship/Teaching Qualification or equivalent

Knowledge & Experience

• Significant years post registration experience as a Specialist nurse at B6 or above in defined or associated speciality.
• Extensive experience working with patients with Diabetes Mellitus
• Extensive experience working autonomously as specialist level.
• Experience of providing patients centred education and support.
• Expert knowledge of current issues surrounding Diabetes including current guidance and best practice
• Expert knowledge of current treatments of Diabetes.
• Can demonstrate expert nursing knowledge with an ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients and give advice and information to patients/relatives/staff members
• Experience in teaching/assessing and supervising others in a clinical setting.
• Understanding of CSII (or willingness to undertake further training)

Skills

• Ability to manage own clinical caseload.
• Ability to work autonomously, manage/prioritise own workload, supervise and assess junior staff.
• Competent in a range of clinical skills and expanded practices relevant to the scope of practice required.
• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills, demonstrating clarity, diplomacy and influencing skills.
• IT literate.

Values & Behaviours

• oAble to work flexibly.
• Motivated and enthusiastic

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.