Lead Community Diabetes Specialist Nurse Barts Health NHS Trust

The Diabetes Times; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in diabetes care is seeking an experienced lead nurse to manage the Tower Hamlet Community Diabetes Service. This exciting role involves leading a dedicated team of Diabetes Nurse Specialists while ensuring high-quality care for patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. The ideal candidate will possess excellent leadership, organizational, and communication skills, along with a commitment to delivering exceptional diabetes services. This position offers a unique opportunity to enhance your leadership abilities and make a significant impact on community health. Join a passionate team and contribute to the advancement of diabetes care in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing diabetes care and leading a clinical team.
• Ability to work autonomously and provide specialist advice.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of clinical practice and high quality standards of diabetes care.
• Provide ongoing professional and clinical leadership in diabetes management.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Time Management

Organizational Skills

Communication Skills

Clinical Knowledge in Diabetes

Change Management

Education

Nursing Qualification

Specialist Diabetes Training

Job description

Job summary

Due to promotion within the team, applications are invited for an experienced, dynamic lead nurse to manage the Tower Hamlet Community Diabetes Service/Barts and the Royal London Department of Diabetes & Metabolism, based at Mile End Hospital. You will be working within an enthusiastic team of Diabetes Nurse Specialists and other health care professionals, providing a leadership role within the team.

The post holder will focus on managing the smooth running of community diabetes across Tower Hamlet Brough, working with GP practices, delivering high quality diabetes care to patients living with Type 1 / Type 2 diabetes. The post holder will have specialist skills to work independently, providing management plans, treatment advice, and support for all adults with diabetes. Contribute to the enhancement of diabetes nursing by acting as a credible role model, educator, and expert clinician.

You will work collaboratively with external agencies involved in providing diabetes care to Tower Hamlet patients and attend diabetes network meetings, as well as stake holder meetings to ensure that service key performance indicators (KPIs) are met.

If have good time management; organisational and communication skills, the ability to work autonomously, excellent leadership skills and a desire to deliver a high quality community diabetes service, we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity to develop your leadership and management skills, the post holder will be responsible for leading the on-going development of clinical practice and high quality standards of care and ensure safe treatment, referral, follow up and safe discharge of patients within the speciality of diabetes. The post holder will provide specialist advice in relation to care of people with diabetes and ensure the provision of range of educational and training programmes for the multidisciplinary team, patients, families and carers.

You will be a confident committed clinical leader who is driven by challenges and demonstrates personal resilience working in a fast moving and changing care environment. You should have experience of staff and change management, leading by example, motivating and empowering your team to ensure consistently high standard of care are set and delivered to patients living with diabetes.

You will provide specialist knowledge to support colleagues in the effective management of patients with diabetes within an integrated diabetes service setting. Provide ongoing professional and clinical leadership to deliver evidence based care as part of the wider multidisciplinary team.

The post is an exciting opportunity to work within the speciality of diabetes, contributing primarily to the delivery of the adult diabetes service at Mile End Diabetes Care Centre and within GP practices in Tower Hamlet Borough.