Job summary
Employer heading
Diabetes Specialist Nurse (Band 7)
NHS AfC: Band 7
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, highly motived and enthusiastic Diabetes Nurse to join our small dedicated diabetes team to deliver specialist advice, education, and services at Airedale General Hospital.
The team comprises of Diabetologists/Endocrinologists, Diabetes Nurse Specialists, Podiatrists and Dieticians.
We have been successful in our transformation and integration with the community diabetes nursing specialist team to enhance the service we deliver to our patients.
You must have excellent communication skills and be able to demonstrate the knowledge, experience and motivation to care for the patient living with diabetes.
The successful candidate will be able to provide direct expert diabetes nursing care for both inpatients and outpatients.
The successful candidate will also utilise desirable advanced nursing practice skills and knowledge, in particular, nurse prescribing to meet the highly complex diabetes needs of patients who will be accessing the hospital specialist diabetes services.
Main duties of the job
· Provide direct expert diabetes nursing care for outpatients and within Primary care-based clinic settings accessing specialist diabetes care from the Hospital Trust
· Utilise advanced nursing skills and knowledge, in particular nurse prescribing to meet the needs of patients accessing the diabetes service.
· Through clinical supervision and professional development review and maintain own levels of clinical competence and expertise
· Using advanced clinical skills comprehensive and holistic patient assessments to inform diagnosis and treatment in patients with an existing diabetes or gestational diabetes diagnosis.
· Collaboratively work with patients, carers, multidisciplinary team members, other healthcare professionals’ and agencies to ensure individual diabetes needs are met.
· Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and relatives/carers.
· Maintain accurate and concise electronic patient records.
· Act as a patient advocate appropriately to support and promote their participation in decision making.
· Work ethically and legally within the NMC code of Conduct and Practice.
· There will be an expectation to support a weekend rota for service delivery, the current hours are Saturday working 8:30am – 16:30pm approximately once a month.
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of this job vacancy, please see attached full job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Level 1 Registered Nurse
- Relevant post qualification study at Master level
- Willing to undertake non-medical prescribing qualification
- Teaching/assessor/mentor qualification
Desirable criteria
- Non-medial prescriber
- X-pert educator
- DAFNE educator
- Insulin pump university module
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience as a Diabetes Specialist Nurse
- Ability to work independently and autonomously
- Practice within guidelines and protocols to ensure deliver of high quality diabetes care
- Participation in clinical audit
Desirable criteria
- Diabetes inpatient experience
- Experience delivering diabetes pre-conceptual and antenatal care
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
- Kate Farrell
- Job title
- Diabetes Specialist Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 294490
- Additional information
Daniel Whitworth
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