Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Band 7

Permanent

37.5 Hours per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Diabetes Specialist Nurse (DSN) to be at the forefront of driving up standards and quality in diabetes care within the Diabetes team of Liverpool University Hospitals (Aintree Hospital) and The Walton Centre.

The role will also include working in a variety of clinical areas including inpatient diabetes nurse service, outpatient clinics including complex MDT foot clinic within the Diabetes Centre and community clinics. It will include sub specialist clinics e.g. antenatal clinic, pre-operative assessment clinic at The Walton Centre.

The successful applicant must have experience of working autonomously within the field of Diabetes and with the ability to work to evidence-based guidelines audit the care given to patients to make and suggest improvements in services.

The post holder will also be required to deliver complex educational packages to health care professionals and patients around effective diabetes management.

Main duties of the job

Act as Diabetes clinical expert and professional resource to Multi-Professional teams, patients and carers within the Speciality service. The post holder will support the development of specialist area of practice in partnership with other members of the speciality teams across Acute, Community and Primary Care Service. The post holder will carry responsibility for a defined case load and offer highly specialist advice, setting standards of care, the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care. The post holder will contribute to achieving the objectives of the clinical service group/speciality corporate objectives and work within the clinical governance framework They will lead the development and delivery of a programme of practice and professional development for delivery of care within the specialist area across the Acute hospital areas (Aintree and The Walton Centre)

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Job description and persons specification

Clinical specialist in area of Diabetes

Work as part of a wider Multi-disciplinary team

Support the training and development of others

Workplace will be in inpatient ward/clinical areas and outpatient clinics

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• RGN with current NMC registration
• Degree (or equivalent)
• Post-registration qualification in diabetes
• Teaching and assessing qualification

Desirable

• Research qualification
• Recordable specialist qualification
• Masters
• Independent Nurse Prescriber

Experience

Essential

• Clinical experience with specific experience within Diabetes.
• Evidence of undertaking the relevant speciality successfully at Band 6
• Experience of teaching and assessing in the clinical area.
• Experience in service development and implementation of change
• Involvement in audit

Desirable

• Experience of caring for patients using insulin pumps

Skills

Essential

• Ability to effectively communicate sensitive information in a variety of settings.
• Organisation and negotiation skills
• Able to present information to professional groups.
• Leadership & motivation skills
• Intermediate IT skills in word processing and spreadsheets
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Able to supervise and support junior members of the team

Employer details

Employer name

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Aintree University Hospital

Aintree House

Liverpool

L9 7AL

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