Practice Nurse with special interest in Diabetes

NHS; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in Liverpool is seeking a skilled Practice Nurse with a special interest in diabetes management. You will be responsible for leading a nursing team to provide outstanding diabetes care while collaborating with specialists and mentoring staff. The ideal candidate will have significant experience with long-term conditions, excellent communication skills, and an NMC registration. Salary ranges from £38,682 to £46,580, with numerous benefits including flexible working and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working

Protected study leave with financial allowance

6-month mentorship or induction package

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in long-term conditions management, especially diabetes.
• Successfully completed post-registration accredited foundation course in general practice nursing.
• Knowledge of accountability in a nurse-led service.

Responsibilities

• Lead nursing team in delivering diabetes care while ensuring quality targets.
• Mentor and supervise other staff to ensure high-quality care.
• Participate in public health strategies to improve overall community health.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Change management skills

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Ability to mentor

Education

Registered Part 1 NMC

Degree Level education or equivalent experience

NMC specialist Community Practitioner Qualification

Job description

Practice Nurse with special interest in Diabetes

We are seeking an exceptional Practice Nursewith extensive experience in long term conditions management and specialinterest in Diabetes.Desirable criteria: knowledge of diabetes management and medicationintensification and insulin titration. To be able to work with type 1 and type2 diabetes management, nurse prescriber andflexible working home visits etc. You will work closely with our Diabetes Specialist Lead to ensure the Practice achieves Q.O.F. and other quality targets whilst also leadingin a clinical area of Diabetes. As a Practice Nurse with specialist interest indiabetes you will support other Practice Nurses within the team, NurseAssociate and Clinical Support Workers

Main duties of the job

This rolerequires consolidation of specialist knowledge and skills in general practicenursing especially diabetes demonstrating a depth of knowledge, understandingand competence that supports evidenced informed, complex, autonomous andindependent decision-making, and care in general practice and related settings.Those new to this role will need a period of preceptorship. This role willrequire personal resilience, management, clinical leadership and supervisionand mentorship of others in the general practice nursing team and providing aneffective learning environment for staff and students in the wider team. Therole will require an innovative approach in supporting and developing newmodels and strategies for service delivery, usually incorporatinginter-professional and inter-agency approaches to monitor and improve care.General Practice Nurse with Diabetes specialist knowledge to deliver care to the practice population, butalso need to have an understanding of the public health profile and populationneeds in order to be proactive in ensuringservices are, as far as possible, matched to need.

About us

Brownlow Health is a large City Centre organisation inLiverpool with a patient population of 80, 000. We have attained outstanding inour most recent CQC inspection and have been shortlisted for five awards inthis years General Practice Awards including Nursing Team of the Year.

The Nurse Management team, comprisingof three nurse managers and lead by a Nurse Partner are proud to havesuccessfully created such a multi-skilled Nursing Team. This range ofexperience and skill mix has enabled the team to provide a more focussedquality driven service to meet the health needs of our patients, whilst alsoimproving patient access and appointment capacity. We are now looking for anexceptional Practice Nurse to join our team.

We offer ourteam numerous benefits and put staff well-being at the core. We offer flexibleworking and protected study leave with financial allowance. You will receive a6-month mentorship/induction package and salary and annual leave in line withAgenda for Change.

If required, Extended access will form part of your contracted hours.

If you are successful at interview and areregistered with any of the Brownlow sites, you are required to changepractices and this will be a stipulate of employment.

Other job locations:

Student Health, Peach Street Liverpool L69 7ZL

Ropewalks Surgery, 26 Argyle Street Liverpool L1 5DL

Job responsibilities

This role requires the ability to work independently and collaboratively,using freedom to exercise judgement about actions while accepting professionalaccountability and responsibility. This requires:

Enhanced critical thinking andability to critically analyse a broad range of policies, literature andevidence to support clinical practice.

Ability to analyse serviceprovision in relation to both quality assurance and quality monitoring, and tofocus on patient outcomes wherever possible.

Strong clinical leadership of theteam and clarity of expectation of team members with respect to quality-of-caredelivery and values inherent in nursing practice. Emotional intelligence torecognise pressures on staff and the development of mechanisms to support anddevelop staff to recognise the impact of caring for people who may beexperiencing complex healthcare issues.

Enhanced knowledge of the localcommunity and needs and resources available, and the ability to signpost peopleto appropriate resources.

Ability to work collaborativelywith others to meet local public health needs for individuals, groups and thewider community. Build strong relationships with the secondary care teams,particularly for patients receiving shared care, to ensure an effective flow ofpatient information to ensure high-quality care.

Ability to reflect in action andbe actively engaged with the NMC revalidation process both for themselves andfor others.

Activelycontributing to a variety of professional networks and sharing learning from these:

Development ofeffective team systems for on-going supervision and promotion of clinicalreflection for all staff, preceptor ship programmes and mentorship.

Identify andsupport the learning needs of individuals or the team in response to personaldevelopment needs identified at appraisal or service need.

Evaluate theimpact of educational interventions.

Whereappropriate, participate in teaching and student selection in higher educationinstitutions and/or other education organisations.

Develop apositive learning environment for students and the staff team, giving andreceiving feedback in an open, honest and constructive manner.

Clinical leadership of the team,recognising the stressors encountered in general practice nursing anddeveloping systems to ensure team members continue to build resilience.

Work effectively acrossprofessional and agency boundaries, actively involving and respecting others contributions.

Role modelling of the valuesexpected in Compassion in Practice 2014 and the values and behaviours ofeffective leaders.

Enhanced and advanced Diabetesknowledge with clinical expertise to guide the nursing team in the managementof patients with complex diabetic needs.

Ability to manage the workloadeffectively and develop business cases where appropriate in response tochanging demands. Display an innovative approach to practice, encouraging otherteam members and, where possible, patients and service users, to contributeand, where appropriate, instigate and evaluate a managed change process.

Ensuring the team is risk awarewhen working with patients, and health and safety aware within the surgery.Develop regularly reviewed systems to ensure risk is managed safely andeffectively. Develop a learning culture within the immediate team to improvepatient safety and ensure staff are supported and can learn from and in futureprevent untoward incidents.

Awareness and application ofappropriate legislation that informs nursing and healthcare delivery.

Ability to work independently butalso to co-ordinate, delegate and supervise team members for a designated groupof patients.

Undertaking performancemanagement when appropriate. Management of the nursing team within ethical andpolicy frameworks and knowledge and application of human resource law to enableeffective staff management.

Ensuring care and servicedelivery meets quality requirements but be actively involved in qualityimprovement strategies and service developmentinnovations.

Ability to demonstrate politicalawareness and translate policy into practice, demonstrating knowledge andawareness of healthcare commissioning and contracting mechanisms and systems,awareness of health and social policy contexts and local variations, and beskilled in developing effective external relationships with a variety ofhealth, social and third sector agencies, recognising the importance of workingwithin a governance framework.

Where appropriate take delegatedresponsibility for the management of a budget that may include the purchasingof assets, equipment or other resources and staff costs.

Where appropriate participate inclinical trials and research projects.

Ensure active management of theworkload, taking into consideration public health priorities and localcommunity health needs and changing demographics.

Participate in public healthstrategies where these are aligned to the practice population and workcollaboratively with others to undertake risk stratification, case managementand other strategies developed to improve health or avoid hospitalisation.

Ability to access databases andother information sources and critically appraise information.

Contribution to the developmentof local guidelines and policy locally and regionally, and nationally whereappropriate.

Participation in research-relatedactivity such as audit, data gathering and patient feedback.

Sharing of information andpractice development through a range of means including writing forpublication.

Leadership and Managementlearning activities

Demonstratespecialist competence, innovation and clinical leadership in the assessment,intervention in and delivery of general practice nursing in all contextsappropriate to individuals needs across the whole age range for the generalpractice population. This requires:

Ability to assess and manage therange of conditions encountered in general practice but a focus on diabetescare using a variety of assessment tools and consultation models appropriate tothe patient and situation using physical and clinical examination skills toinform the assessment and decision-making for the on-going management of thepatient.

Advanced communication skillsthat include skills of influencing and negotiation to enable information to bedelivered in understandable formats for patients and behaviour change supportedwhere necessary.

Effective multidisciplinary andmulti-agency team working, alongside the ability to work independently andaccept professional accountability and responsibility for the delivery of wholeepisodes of care and supporting and developing others in the general practicenursing team to collaborate effectively, ensuring nursing care is guided byprecedent and clearly defined policies, procedures and protocols.

Delivery and co-ordination ofevidence-informed, person-centred and negotiated care across the age spectrum.

Use of technology to supportindependence and patient self-care at home to improve self-care and reduceexacerbations

Role modelling and embodiment ofnon-judgemental, value-based care encompassing the 6Cs44 in practice andexpectation and promotion of these values in other team members.

Competence in deliveringevidence-informed care across a wide range of minor acute and LTCs, ensuringeffective evaluation of therapeutic and other approaches to conditionmanagement alongside ability to assess patient concordance.

Person Specification

Skills

• Clinical leadership
• Change management skills and ability to support patients to change lifestyle
• Communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to communicate difficult messages to patients and families
• Negotiation and conflict management skills
• Ability to provide teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting
• Clinical skills e.g. cervical cytology, immunisation and vaccination

Qualifications

• Registered Part 1 NMC
• Educated to degree Level or equivalent experience
• Successful completion of post registration accredited foundation course in general practice nursing at level 6 or 7 and able to meet RCGP Practice Nurse competencies
• NMC specialist Community Practitioner Qualification Practice Nurse

Experience

• Experience of working within the NHS.
• Experience of nurse led management of long term conditions
• Experience of implementing protocols and clinical guidelines
• Audit Experience
• Knowledge of accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse led service
• Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
• Ability to identify the determinants of health in the local area
• Knowledge of principles of Clinical Governance, confidentiality, data protection and Information Governance
• Knowledge of the safeguarding childrens and adults policies and procedures and how to apply these

Attributes and Behaviours

• A complete finisher.
• Resilience and drive
• Personal and professional integrity and confidence.
• Flexibility
• Resourceful
• Calm and resolute under pressure.
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
• High workload capacity and capable of sustained effort over a long period.
• Political awareness.
• Full driving licence.

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.

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearWhole time equivalent - depending on experience