Senior Diabetes Specialist Nurse

BERKSHIRE HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Windsor; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

27 days annual leave + buy/sell

Generous NHS pension

Career development opportunities

Cycle to Work and vehicle schemes

Free parking

Job summary

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Diabetes Specialist Nurse for a fixed-term maternity-cover role based at the Diabetes Centre, King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor. You will provide expert care for diabetes across East Berkshire, working independently and with a multidisciplinary team.

The post focuses on specialist antenatal diabetes care and supporting the hybrid closed-loop insulin pump service, including education on pump use, carbohydrate counting and

Qualifications

• Specialist antenatal diabetes care for pregnant people with pre-existing or gestational diabetes.
• Support insulin pump therapy including hybrid closed-loop systems.
• Deliver structured, individualised education on safe system use and carbohydrate counting.
• Work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team across Diabetes Centre and community services.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist antenatal diabetes care in the antenatal pathway with maternity colleagues.
• Assess, initiate, optimise and review insulin pump therapy and pump data.
• Offer education on pump use, sick-day management and glucose data interpretation.

Skills

Antenatal diabetes care

Insulin pump therapy

Education delivery

Autonomy in clinical practice

Education

Non-Medical Prescribing desirable

Job description

An exciting fixed-term maternity-cover opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Diabetes Specialist Nurse to join our Specialist Community Diabetes Nursing Team. Based at the Diabetes Centre at King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, you will provide expert, evidence-based care for people with diabetes across East Berkshire, working both independently and as part of the multidisciplinary team. The role has a particular focus on specialist antenatal diabetes care and supporting the hybrid closed-loop insulin pump service. You will care for women and pregnant people with pre-existing or gestational diabetes throughout the antenatal pathway, working closely with maternity colleagues, and support people using insulin pump therapy through assessment, initiation, optimisation, interpretation of glucose and pump data, troubleshooting and ongoing review. You will deliver individualised education on insulin pumps and hybrid closed-loop systems, including safe system use, carbohydrate counting, sick-day management and responding to glucose data. You will also contribute to wider specialist diabetes provision, community services and Primary Care support as required. Training, supervision and competency development will be provided to help you develop expertise in antenatal diabetes and pump therapy while maintaining broader specialist diabetes nursing skills. A Non-Medical Prescribing qualification is desirable.,

• Provide specialist antenatal diabetes care for women and pregnant people with pre-existing or gestational diabetes, working closely with maternity and multidisciplinary colleagues throughout the antenatal pathway.
• Support insulin pump therapy, including hybrid closed-loop systems, through suitability assessment, initiation, optimisation, interpretation of glucose and pump data, troubleshooting and ongoing review.
• Deliver structured and individualised education for patients and carers on safe system use, carbohydrate counting, sick-day management and responding to glucose data.
• Work autonomously and as part of the multidisciplinary team across the Diabetes Centre, community services and Primary Care, providing specialist advice and support to healthcare professionals.
• Contribute to wider specialist diabetes care, integrated service development, quality improvement, audit, education and the professional development of colleagues.

  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites