University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
We have an exciting opportunity to join the children's diabetes team. This post is for maternity cover but will allow you to extend your knowledge and skills in a fascinating developing area of medicine.
The Children's Hospital has a well established specialist nursing team who provide quality care to children and their families within the Children's Hospital and in the child's home and school environment.
Our specialist nurses provide a wide range of services including nurse led initiatives, family support and nursing care, and act as a resource and educator for families, schools and other professionals.
All Specialist Nurses work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure best outcomes for children with chronic conditions. You will need excellent communication skills to enable you to effectively engage in face to face consultations as well as telephone advice for both families and professionals.
Main duties of the job
You will contribute to the day to day clinical care of children and their families who have diabetes and support existing practices such as nurse led and multi-disciplinary clinics, transitional care and education programmes.
You will have the vision to further develop services to improve the care for children and young people within the specialist team.
You will be responsible for developing and delivering teaching packages to all staff within the Children's Hospital.
Job responsibilities
To provide specialist nursing support ensuring the quality of care provision to children who access the service using unit protocols and trust policies and guidelines.
To work with the MDT to provide patient focused services and to initiate different forms of treatment for children and their families in a variety of settings.
To work with the multi professional team within Diabetes services.
To provide specialist education, training and information to children and families.
To work with the MDT to monitor patient condition.
To be responsible for nursing practice development.
Manage a delegated caseload of patients, as appropriate within the speciality, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care.
Provide clinical expertise, specialist advice and support across the whole spectrum of the service.
Demonstrate in depth specialist knowledge, skills and innovative practice in the specialist area, ensuring the delivery of appropriate evidence based care.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Experience
* At least 2 years band 5
* Some experience of Diabetes
* Some knowledge of Diabetes
Knowledge
* Some knowledge of Diabetes
* Awareness of research
* Teaching qualification
Person Specific
* Willing to learn
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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