Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Job summary

As a Hospital diabetes Specialist Nurse, you will provide advice to clinical teams to ensure people living with diabetes have good diabetes care while in hospital. You will work closely with your community colleagues to provide seamless care on discharge. You will support the NADIA harms audit and report any issues with care to the trust via its clinical safety platform.

Education is fundamental in diabetes management so you will be involved in all areas of diabetes education from 1one top one patient and family education to groups of people with gestational diabetes and the education of health care professionals. You will support student nurses on placement and spoke days. You will also support registered nurses with diabetes education days and link nurse days. you will also provide education when teaching moments arise in clinical areas.

You will manage a caseload of patients and adapt to changes in the working day from new admissions and advice and support to prevent admissions.

In return we offer a supportive learning environment and aim to facilitate the development of our team to enable you to take on a senior DSN role in the future.

This is a part time role of 0.8 WTE and will be shared with another team member.

You will need to be able to travel across site to support care at all of our trust sites.

Main duties of the job

Provide support to hospital teams to manage people with diabetes safely while in hospital.

Support people with diabetes who are pregnant or develop gestational diabetes. This will involve face to face and telephone appointments and group teaching.

Support Student nurses on placements or spoke days. Ensuring they have a wide range of opportunities to see what a role as a clinical nurse specialist involves.

Provide education to a variety of health care professionals from Healthcare Assistants to Consultants.

People newly diagnosed with diabetes or who have had a significant change in their health status need additional support and education. You will be that point of contact to provide them with what they need to manage independently with their diabetes in the community. You will advocate for your patients and support them to achieve good glycaemic control.

You will provide support and be a link in the Multi-disciplinary foot team and support these patients on inpatient and outpatien basis.

You will support the team leaders to develop guidelines and policies for use in the hospitals. You will participate in local and national audits.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Employer's website

https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Employer's website

https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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