Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Job responsibilities

Provide highly specialised clinical advice and support to service users and the wider healthcare team this will include clinical assessment, diagnostic skills, non-medicalprescribing and implementation of management and treatment plans

Be responsible for the delivery of the service within the area.

Work cooperatively and collaboratively with other services/stakeholders to enable service users are treated in the most appropriate setting.

Ensure that the team provides a high quality service to its clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.

Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to service users with both planned and unplanned care needs.

Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment.

Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.

Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role

Acts as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.

Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity.

Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making

Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the wider healthcare when managing complex and highly complex situations.

Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex clinical care.

Following holistic assessment of health needs, develop specialist individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of patients/clients and carers.

Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.

Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long term conditions and end of life/palliative care.

Set objectives by which performance will be monitored.

Work with team leader and service lead to deliver local based services, by participating in meetings and communicating the outcomes to staff.

Support team leader to provide reports to the service lead on staff and patient activity as requested.

Work in collaboration with others to support practice development and service modernisation

Contribute to the development of role and service redesign.

Actively participate in policy and service development authoring protocols as required

Provide induction to the local working environment, and policies for new team members and students

Be an authorised signatory, ensuring probity in the authorisation of timecards and mileage claims.

Monitor budgets reporting over/under spending to the budget holder.

Support team leader with PACE reviews of team members

Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect local needs

Ensure that administration and clerical duties are appropriately delegated to clerical support officers.

Provide data that supports the monitoring of team contract and objectives.

Participate in audits and research, as required.

Participate in individual and group supervision

. Support with the implementation of mentorship and clinical supervision with the team

Ensure that record keeping within the team is consistent with professional standards

Initiate training and development of team members. Monitor and maintain standards of patient care delivery. Including maintaining and monitoring of clinical competency and standards of record keeping

In conjunction with the team leader and service lead, ensure systems are in place for the ongoing review and assessment of care provision

Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the team leader and service lead

Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support or undertake any investigations as delegated by the team leader and service lead

Monitor and ensure that the quality of the patient care delivered by the team is evidencedbased and supported by best practice, through the use of audit, caseload and clinical supervision

Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.

Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.

Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students

Support with the identification of skills deficits within the team and identify methods of addressing these to support service delivery, improvement and development

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or equivalent qualification (evidence of study at degree level or higher)
• Appropriate prescriber (V300) or enrolled on course and due to complete
• Evidence of CPD/Short courses
• Registration with relevant professional body

Desirable

• Clinical Examination and Diagnostics (or working towards)
• First line management qualification

Knowledge/Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience in specialist area
• Experience of management and clinical leadership
• Experience of successful multiagency working
• Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care
• Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care
• Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues
• Understanding how other agencies work
• Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
• Experience of successful multiagency working

Desirable

• Experience of delivering education and training programmes in specialist area

Skills

Essential

• IT literate
• Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload
• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
• Ability to understand and analyse complex data
• Risk assessment skills
• Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues
• Self-management and motivation skills
• Report writing skills
• Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues
• Ability to travel to work across boundaries

Desirable

• Research skills

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).