Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse

NHS; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

This position offers a fantastic opportunity for a driven and experienced registered Children's Nurse to join the Nottingham Children's Diabetes team as a Band 6 specialist. The successful candidate will play a key role in improving diabetes care for young patients, working closely with families and healthcare professionals, and utilizing advanced diabetes management technologies.

Qualifications

• Registered Children's Nurse with a focus on diabetes care.
• Experience working with children and young people with diabetes.
• Willingness to undertake an accredited diabetes course.

Responsibilities

• Support inpatient care and education for families.
• Work as part of a multi-professional team.
• Provide clinical advice and training to healthcare professionals.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Organisational Skills

Education

RC Child, RSCN

NMC Registration

Accredited diabetes course

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

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Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse

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Job summary

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic registered Children's Nurse to work within the Nottingham Children's Diabetes team as a Band 6 Diabetes Specialist Nurse on a permanent basis.

Nottingham Children's Hospital looks after around 440 children and young people with diabetes. Approximately 70% of our patients are on insulin pumps, CGM or a variety of Hybrid Closed Loop Systems. We are nationally recognised and continue to achieve some of the best diabetes outcomes in the country.

Excellent team working, effective communication, being highly organised and motivated, in addition to previous experiences in caring for children and young people with diabetes is desirable. The post holder will have post registration experience, working with children in hospital, outpatients and/or community settings.

The new post holder will be trained and supported in learning about the complex technology used in CYP and Type 1 Diabetes to enable them to hold a caseload of patients and manage their care in a variety of settings, give emergency advise and contribute to training other healthcare professionals.

You will be hospital based with a responsibility to see children and young people in inpatient and outpatient setting, liaise with families at home and provide education to school and nurseries.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the summary below you need to familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents attached to this advert.

You will be a clinical and professional role model with a passion for the delivery of high quality clinical care and the support and development of others. You will be an effective team player but also be able to plan and organise your own workload, possess excellent communication skills and an ability to teach families, schools and health professionals. You will work as part of dynamic and forward thinking multi-professional team, offering key opportunities to develop your career as a nurse specialist within this rapidly expanding speciality.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

The successful candidate will work as a specialist nurse on a permanent basis within an established multi-professional team.

You will be hospital based supporting inpatient care, providing education and support for families. You will also support multi-professional clinics as well as seeing patients independently in nurse clinics.

You will provide clinical advise and support to families and schools to try and prevent deterioration in illness and reduce hospital admissions. You will provide education and support to nursery and school staff to enable children and young people to return to their usual routines.

You will be involved with starting patients on new technologies and providing patients and families with ongoing education and support to reduce the risk of short and long-term complications.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

• RC Child, RSCN
• NMC Registration
• Accredited diabetes course or willingness to undertake

Experience

• Experience of working with children and young people with diabetes
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of dealing with complex safeguarding situations

Communcation and Relationship Skills

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to demonstrate IT skills, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Planning and Organisation Skills

• Able to organise and prioritise a complex caseload

Other

• Hold a full UK driving license and have access to a car

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.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

£37,338 to £44,962 a yearper annum pro rata