Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen to cover maternity leave in the established Diabetes Nursing team!
This role will be for one year fixed term and predominately be based providing care for people within the community diabetes service. The role will be based within the Community but working across an integrated nursing service using experience and specialised knowledge to provide education and advice, initiation and adjustment to treatment plans.
If interested, we would love to hear from you today!
Main duties of the job
The community diabetes specialist nurse will assist in the delivery of a specialist clinical diabetes service with an aim to provide high quality diabetes care within Swindon in line with the direction of the service and Trust objectives. They will also help to deliver high quality education to practice nurses and GPs to improve diabetes care within the primary care setting.
Job responsibilities
The Diabetes Specialist Nurse will be a clinical specialist, providing clinical advice, specialist skills, knowledge and expertise to health care professionals and people with diabetes and their family / carers. The Diabetes Specialist Nurse will be committed to promoting a greater quality of life, short and long term, for the individual with diabetes and their family.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* RGN
* 1st Degree Diabetes Nursing Qualification or equivalent
* Knowledge of research, Portfolio reflects a career long learning experience
* Nurse prescriber
Experience
* Experience working with people with diabetes
* Experience in educating patients and Health Care professionals
* Experience of service development
* Experience running nurse led clinics
* Experience of working in a community setting
Knowledge
* Ability to implement change
* Ability to develop services
* Wide Knowledge of developments within the diabetes field
* Ability to support other professional staff in developing skills
* Experience of multi-agency working
* Experience of working within a primary care setting and commissioning issues relating to diabetes
* Experience of teaching structured education
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.
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