Job summary
- Main area
- Diabetes
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 1 year (End August 2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-MIC-1126
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 06/06/2024
Employer heading
Diabetes Specialist Practitioner
Band 7
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has emerged to introduce a progressive role to support adult diabetes services in the acute sector.
We are looking for two Band 7 Diabetes Specialist Practioners (Diabetes Specialist Nurse, Dietitian, Pharmacist or Podiatist) to join our team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT).
Band 7 role requires you to act as an autonomous expert practitioner in forming decisions and complex management of Type 1 & Type 2 diabetes across inpatient and outpatient settings. We are seeking an expericned DSP with an interest in inpatient to lead this aspect of the diabetes service at Charing Cross Hospital. Both posts will require onsite working Monday to Friday with occassional cross site working.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team with consultants, podiatrists, dieticians and other professions, the diabetes nursing team and Diabetes Specialist Practitioners perform a crucial role in making a difference to patients with diabetes across inpatient wards and Northwest London service provider. The changing landscape of diabetes care provision is exciting, dynamic and lends the way for exploring more creative ways of working.
Main duties of the job
- Provide specialist diabetes practitioner advice to support and facilitate high quality, individualised care to patients/clients and relatives/carers without supervision in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team in line with local and national targets and in accordance to NHS standards and guidelines.
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care for adults with diabetes, through the development of individual care plans in partnership with the patient, their family and relevant others – including structured education.
- Deliver on a set of roles and responsibilities held within a defined portfolio of service responsibilities and maintain high standards of care in diabetes, demonstrable by benchmarking and audit, as stipulated in local and national guidelines.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current NMC Registration (Nurse).
- or HCPC Registered Podiatrist
- or Current HCPC Registration (Dietician).
- or GPhC registration as a pharmacist – non-medical prescriber or working towards.
Desirable criteria
- DAFNE/BDEC training or similar
- Non-medical/independent prescribing course.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Initiation and adjustment of medications including insulin therapy
- DAFNE (dose adjustment for normal eating) or Equivalent Certified.
- Developed and demonstrable leadership skills
Desirable criteria
- Motivational speaking
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Relevant clinical experience in the area of Diabetes, including experience of insulin dose adjustment.
- Able to supervise and support junior members of the team
- Advanced computer literacy including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of writing protocols and standards
- Clinical experience of caring for patients using insulin pumps
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Carol Jairam
- Job title
- Diabetes Specialist Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07956 328 110
- Additional information
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