Westrop Medical Practice

Diabetes Specialist Nurse

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Job summary

The Role We are looking for Diabetes Nurse Specialists with a diabetes diploma to join our team to work in the primary care setting to provide excellent patient care and promote self-care management for patients diagnosed with diabetes. The post holder will be highly organised and have excellent gold standards in quality and patient care.

Hours- 30+ hours

Benefits

Private Health Insurance included from start of employment
Enrolment into the NHS Pension scheme
Nominated GP Mentor
Very competitive rates of pay
Protected regular clinical meetings
Great opportunities for career progression

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

To work autonomously in the provision of high-quality specialist, evidence based diabetes care for people with diabetes.
To promote self-care management to patients to prevent worsening of their condition and improve health outcomes.
To ensure delivery of best practice in clinical practice, caseload management, education, research, and audit, to achieve local population objectives.
To act as a specialist resource and provide specialist advice in relation to diabetes, to patients their family/carers and health professionals

About us

Westrop Medical Practice serves a population of over 48,000 in six locations, three are semi-rural locations on the edge of the Cotswolds, one in the centre of Old Town and two in North Swindon.

Westrop Medical Practices mission is to be a national exemplar for primary care provision. We work closely with our practice teams to support, develop, and transform patient care and improve processes in the practices with innovation and technology at the heart of what we do. We also play a highly active role in discussions at an ICA and ICS level.

Westrop Medical Practice are members of the Brunel Health Group. Brunel is a group of 14 independent surgeries, who work closely together to offer services such as the COVID vaccination programme and paramedic home visiting service. As a group we provide care to 150 000 patients and we are the largest primary care research group across the Southwest of England.

Date posted

05 February 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£41,000 to £51,000 a year (depending on experience) plus Private Family Health Insurance.

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

A0669-25-0002

Job locations

Moredon Medical Centre

Moredon Road

Swindon

SN2 2JG

Hermitage Surgery

Dammas Lane

Swindon

SN1 3EF

Taw Hill Medical Centre

Aiken Road

Swindon

SN25 1UH

Job description

Job responsibilities

The following are the core responsibilities. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:

To work autonomously in the provision of high quality specialist, evidence based diabetes care for people with diabetes.

To promote self-care management to patients to prevent worsening of their condition and improve health outcomes.

To liaise with the administration staff regarding recall systems, and to ensure the smooth running of the clinics.

To ensure current diabetes templates are accurate for recording the required data for various reporting methods, eg Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)

To ensure accurate record keeping, recording of all consultations and treatments in the patients computerised medical records using templates where applicable.

To maintain accurate data and records in a timely fashion, using SystmOne and other software as applicable.

To ensure full understanding of QOF for diabetes chronic disease management and to liaise with the team to ensure targets are achieved.

To actively collect and maintain data that will demonstrate patient improvement in key areas.

To ensure delivery of best practice in clinical practice, caseload management, education, research, and audit, to achieve corporate Primary Care Network and local population objectives.

To act as a specialist resource and provide specialist advice in relation to diabetes, to patients their family/carers and health professionals.