Main area: Community Diabetes Team
Grade Band: 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (The Service currently operates Monday - Friday between core business hours)
Job ref: 350-CC6911439
Site: Sefton Place
Town: Sefton
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/01/2025 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job Overview
We are recruiting a Band 7 Diabetes Clinical Specialist Nurse to work within Sefton Place Community Diabetes Team.
The post holder will need to demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge base in relation to Diabetes and promote excellence in nursing practice in a dynamic healthcare environment.
The post holder is expected to demonstrate leadership values within the team and contribute to the delivery of specialist nursing care, case management and provide direct patient care, acting as an expert practitioner to optimise patient health, provide education for self-care and complex management of patient pathways.
Main Duties of the Job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Diabetes Clinical Specialist Nurse, to work within Sefton Place Community Diabetes team.
You will be expected to work within Sefton Place Diabetes Team to provide a service to patients in Southport, Formby and the South Sefton area.
The post holder will need to demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge base and promote excellence in nursing practice in a dynamic healthcare environment. Experience of Leadership/Management is also essential for the role as the post holder will be expected to undertake some leadership duties in the absence of the Team Leader.
It is essential that they demonstrate excellent leadership and communication skills, ensuring that they use initiative and work autonomously and that the post holder can lead a team effectively.
As an active member of a team, the post holder is expected to deliver specialist nursing care, case manage and provide direct patient care, acting as an expert practitioner to optimise patient health, provide education for self-care and complex management of patient pathways. The Specialist Diabetes Nurse will be part of a multi-disciplinary team and adapt an integrated approach to care delivery and actively support integration and service transformation.
Working for Our Organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of the role requirements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* 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
* Clinical Examination and Diagnostics (or working towards)
Knowledge/Experience
* Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience in specialist area
* Experience of management and clinical leadership
* Experience of successful multi-agency 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 delivering education and training programmes in specialist area
Skills
* 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
* 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
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
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.
Name: Rowen Emmett
Job title: Operational Service Manager
Email address: Rowen.Emmett@merseycare.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07966241611
Additional information: Please contact with any questions or to arrange any informal visits.
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