Practice Nurse with a special interest in Diabetes

NHS; Southampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider seeks a Practice Nurse with a special interest in diabetes to join their proactive team in East Southampton. This role involves delivering high-quality care to patients, managing chronic diseases, and contributing to clinical policies in a dynamic practice environment. Ideal candidates will possess excellent communication skills and experience in diabetes management.

Qualifications

• Qualified nurse (registered with the NMC).
• Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes.
• Experience of continued professional development.

Responsibilities

• Conduct diabetic reviews and management.
• Perform wound care and sutures.
• Request and process pathology tests.

Skills

Communication skills

Time management

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Analytical skills

Education

GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths

NMC Registered Nurse qualification

Tools

EMIS Web

Docman 10

Job description

Practice Nurse with a special interest in Diabetes

This is an exciting opportunity for a practice nurse with a special interest in diabetes to join a friendly, dynamic, and forward-thinking practice located East of Southampton.

Working as a member of the practice multidisciplinary team, the post holder will be responsible for the routine, evidence-based care of patients with diabetes, including annual reviews incorporating local prescribing guidelines as well as following up with patients with more complex diabetic needs,

The Practice Nurse will also be responsible for a number of clinical areas, such as infection prevention and control, health promotion, chronic disease management, and well-woman and well-man clinics, as well as actively supporting the practice management team in reviewing and delivering clinical policy and procedures.

Main duties of the job

Diabetic Reviews and Management

Wound care/removal of sutures and staples

ECGs

Venepuncture

Requesting pathology tests and processing the results, advising patients accordingly

Understanding the importance of evidence-based practice

Understand the requirement for PGDs and associated policy

Ability to record accurate clinical notes

Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to GPs

Chaperone procedure

Immunisations (routine, childhood and travel)

About us

We are a diverse and friendly team ofGPs, Physician Associate, Clinical Pharmacists, Advanced Nurse Practitioners,Paramedic, Social Prescriber, Nurses and HCAs who work together to provide high-qualitycare for 20,000 patients in the Southampton area.

We are a well organised and hardworking team with along-established high QoF achievement. We actively support learning throughregular clinical meetings and teaching events. Everyone has an opportunity tovoice opinions as to how the practice can be improved. The clinical workload isset at a realistic level, with time allocated for admin and additionalresponsibilities.

Our friendly and supportive admin/reception teamassist in reducing admin workload as much as possible. We are also a teachingpractice for allied professional students across Hampshire.

Duringthe COVID pandemic, we have adapted our service to operate a triage system thathelps us identify and prioritise our sickest patients and those who can safelybe re-directed to self-care services. We also launched an online platformcalled eConsult, where patients can contact us digitally. All our rooms areequipped with video calling and double screen monitors.

We are active in the Bitterne Primary Care Network,with a partner having shared responsibility as a clinical director. Our PCNEducation Environment Lead also helps to ensure staff opportunities to meet anypersonal development goals.

Job responsibilities

Diabetic Reviews

Foot Checks

Reviewing diabetic blood test results

Liasing with other clinicians

Person Specification

Qualifications

• GCSE grade A to C in English and Maths
• EMIS Web / Docman 10 software experience
• Experience with audit and able to lead audit programmes

Experience

• Qualified nurse (registered with the NMC)
• Experience of continued professional development
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Clear, polite telephone manner
• Effective time management
• Ability to work as a team member and autonomously
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Problem solving & analytical skills
• Ability to follow clinical policy and procedure
• Experience with clinical risk management
• Diabetic Reviews

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.