Diabetes Specialist Nurse (Band 7)

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust; York; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a highly motivated Diabetes Nurse to join a dedicated team at a leading healthcare provider. This role involves delivering specialist advice and care for diabetes patients, utilizing advanced nursing skills and knowledge. As part of a transformative journey towards a new hospital, you will play a crucial role in enhancing diabetes services and patient care. Join a community-focused organization that values compassion, quality care, and the well-being of both staff and patients. If you are passionate about making a difference in diabetes care, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Cycle to Work

Travel Scheme

Childcare Vouchers

Onsite Nursery

Buying and Selling Annual Leave

Car Leasing

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee Health and Wellbeing

Extensive Reward Scheme

Counselling Service

Qualifications

• Must be a Level 1 Registered Nurse with significant experience as a Diabetes Specialist Nurse.
• Willingness to undertake non-medical prescribing qualification is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct expert diabetes nursing care for outpatients and in primary care settings.
• Collaboratively work with multidisciplinary team members to meet individual diabetes needs.

Skills

Diabetes Nursing

Communication Skills

Clinical Assessment

Patient Advocacy

Nurse Prescribing

Education

Level 1 Registered Nurse

Non-medical Prescribing Qualification

Insulin Pump University Module

Job description

At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.

We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.

These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, highly motivated and enthusiastic Diabetes Nurse to join our small dedicated diabetes team to deliver specialist advice, education, and services at Airedale General Hospital.

The team comprises of Diabetologists/Endocrinologists, Diabetes Nurse Specialists, Podiatrists and Dieticians.

We have been successful in our transformation and integration with the community diabetes nursing specialist team to enhance the service we deliver to our patients.

You must have excellent communication skills and be able to demonstrate the knowledge, experience and motivation to care for the patient living with diabetes.

The successful candidate will be able to provide direct expert diabetes nursing care for both inpatients and outpatients.

The successful candidate will also utilise desirable advanced nursing practice skills and knowledge, in particular, nurse prescribing to meet the highly complex diabetes needs of patients who will be accessing the hospital specialist diabetes services.

Main duties of the job

1. Provide direct expert diabetes nursing care for outpatients and within Primary care-based clinic settings accessing specialist diabetes care from the Hospital Trust.
2. Utilise advanced nursing skills and knowledge, in particular nurse prescribing to meet the needs of patients accessing the diabetes service.
3. Through clinical supervision and professional development review and maintain own levels of clinical competence and expertise.
4. Using advanced clinical skills comprehensive and holistic patient assessments to inform diagnosis and treatment in patients with an existing diabetes or gestational diabetes diagnosis.
5. Collaboratively work with patients, carers, multidisciplinary team members, other healthcare professionals and agencies to ensure individual diabetes needs are met.
6. Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and relatives/carers.
7. Maintain accurate and concise electronic patient records.
8. Act as a patient advocate appropriately to support and promote their participation in decision making.
9. Work ethically and legally within the NMC code of Conduct and Practice.
10. There will be an expectation to support a weekend rota for service delivery, the current hours are Saturday working 8:30am – 16:30pm approximately once a month.

Working for our organisation

We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:

• Cycle to Work
• Travel Scheme
• Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
• Onsite Nursery
• Buying and Selling Annual Leave
• Car Leasing
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Health and Wellbeing
• Extensive Reward Scheme
• Counselling Service
• Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream.
• Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.

Our values:

• Committed to Quality of Care
• Compassion
• Working together for patients
• Improving Lives
• Everyone Counts
• Respect and Dignity

Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of this job vacancy, please see attached full job description and person specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Level 1 Registered Nurse
• Willing to undertake non-medical prescribing qualification
• Non-medical prescriber
• X-pert educator
• Insulin pump university module

Experience

• Significant experience as a Diabetes Specialist Nurse
• Ability to work independently and autonomously
• Practice within guidelines and protocols to ensure delivery of high quality diabetes care
• Participation in clinical audit
• Experience delivering diabetes pre-conceptual and antenatal care

We are happy to discuss flexible working opportunities.

NOTE: This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient suitable applications are received.

If you are offered a position which requires you to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £41.90, Standard £21.90 or Basic £21.90) from your first full month’s salary. This is a condition of your employment.

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You are encouraged to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £13 cost per year.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.