Job summary Expected Shortlisting Date 18/02/2025 Planned Interview Date 06/03/2025 We are looking for an enthusiastic dedicated, self-motivated Registered Nurse to join our Adult Cystic Fibrosis Team within The Leeds Teaching Hospitals. Are you looking for an exciting challenge where you can lead and work within a dynamic team? Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust hosts the Regional Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit. The CF Unit is internationally recognised as a centre of excellence and provides full time care for over 400 adults with CF. There is a state of the art inpatients ward at St Jamess Hospital, dedicated day unit facilities at Seacroft hospital and a well-established, high quality home care services. The unit continues to be at the forefront of clinical research. Our portfolio includes clinical trials and grant funded research focusing on medical informatics (first paperless service in UK), drug allergy, adherence, inflammation and infection. For further information, contact Dee Shimmin on 0113 206 9106 or at deirdre.shimminnhs.net Main duties of the job The successful applicant will manage and lead diabetes care in people with CF to providing high quality, evidence based, individualised care and treatment to in the community, outpatient and inpatient settings. A key component of the role will be working alongside the multi-disciplinary team to develop and establish this new role. The successful applicant will act as a resource offering specialist advice, support and education, to patients, carers and other health care professionals. You will be responsible for contributing to and leading the on-going development of diabetes clinical practice. This is a permanent post. Job share would be considered. About us Come and join our team in Leeds and become part of The Leeds Way sharing our vision and values. Our Trust is recognised for our staff engagement, great care and rated GOOD by the Care Quality Commission. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest acute health providers in the UK and based in one of the fastest growing and vibrant cities in the north. At Cardio-Respiratory CSU, we aim to be a fair and supportive CSU with positive, caring teams who are champions of the Leeds Way values. Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are: Patient-centred Collaborative Fair Accountable Empowered Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions. Date posted 22 January 2025 Pay scheme Agenda for change Band Band 7 Salary £46,148 to £52,809 a year Contract Permanent Working pattern Full-time Reference number C9298-CRS-244 Job locations St. James's University Hospital Beckett Street Leeds LS9 7TF Job description Job responsibilities Principal Duties & Areas of Responsibility Acts in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct Clinical care delivery - Provide a clinical lead and role model to other nursing staff by delivering high quality care as an expert practitioner - Undertake clinical procedures where dexterity and accuracy are required. - Maintain a safe working environment Responsibilities for patient and client care - Assesses, develops and implement specialist nursing care programmes and evaluate care and treatments using advanced clinical knowledge and clinical skills - Plan specialist nursing service provision organising and managing own workload. - Provides specialised advice contributing to the diagnosis and care of patients. Freedom to act - Makes clinical assessments and treatment decisions within clearly defined policies and protocols - Refer patients as appropriate to other members of the multi-disciplinary team - When required exercises significant clinical discretion and judgement within broadly defined clinical parameters and policies. Communication - Maintains accurate clinical and other records using the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trusts documentation - Support patients and their families communicating very sensitive, complex condition related information, ensuring they receive required information to enable them to participate on their care delivery - Liaise with other Services (as appropriate) to ensure seamless provision of care delivery Education and Training - Plans, provides and facilitates specialist training and education of learners and other junior staff within own speciality area - Actively participate in the development of own personal development plan and performance review. - Participate international, national, regional and local conferences as agreed with Consultant Dietitian and Lead Nurse. - Provide education and training to patients and their carers. - Keep up to date with developments, advances within the specialty Leadership and management - Provide leadership to the clinical team working with Consultant Dietitian, Lead Nurse develop new roles/ways of working - Investigate and respond to accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events - Maintains record of workload and performance monitoring information for own practice and reviews this on a regular basis with Consultant Dietitian and Lead Nurse - Exercises a personal duty of care in relation to equipment, resource and stock control ordering and utilising equipment and supplies appropriately. - Work with Lead Nurse to lead the development of nursing practice, reflecting the CMT and Nursing Directorate business plans - Set, monitor and seek to continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care, including those standards defined in the National Benchmarks for Essential Care - Promote evidence-based practice, wherever possible - Propose, develop and implement policy, protocols and practice guidelines specific to the clinical specialty. - Contributes to the development of specialist protocols for specialist area. - Proposes policy and service change and leads the development of the same within and beyond own specialist area. - Engage users and carers views on service delivery and development. Research and Audit - Contribute to the research agenda. Participate in clinical trials as appropriate - Undertake nursing research and lead audit programmes specific to client group, treatments and developments. - Participate in clinical trials as appropriate. Job description Job responsibilities Principal Duties & Areas of Responsibility Acts in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct Clinical care delivery - Provide a clinical lead and role model to other nursing staff by delivering high quality care as an expert practitioner - Undertake clinical procedures where dexterity and accuracy are required. - Maintain a safe working environment Responsibilities for patient and client care - Assesses, develops and implement specialist nursing care programmes and evaluate care and treatments using advanced clinical knowledge and clinical skills - Plan specialist nursing service provision organising and managing own workload. - Provides specialised advice contributing to the diagnosis and care of patients. Freedom to act - Makes clinical assessments and treatment decisions within clearly defined policies and protocols - Refer patients as appropriate to other members of the multi-disciplinary team - When required exercises significant clinical discretion and judgement within broadly defined clinical parameters and policies. Communication - Maintains accurate clinical and other records using the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trusts documentation - Support patients and their families communicating very sensitive, complex condition related information, ensuring they receive required information to enable them to participate on their care delivery - Liaise with other Services (as appropriate) to ensure seamless provision of care delivery Education and Training - Plans, provides and facilitates specialist training and education of learners and other junior staff within own speciality area - Actively participate in the development of own personal development plan and performance review. - Participate international, national, regional and local conferences as agreed with Consultant Dietitian and Lead Nurse. - Provide education and training to patients and their carers. - Keep up to date with developments, advances within the specialty Leadership and management - Provide leadership to the clinical team working with Consultant Dietitian, Lead Nurse develop new roles/ways of working - Investigate and respond to accidents, complaints, untoward incidents and other significant events - Maintains record of workload and performance monitoring information for own practice and reviews this on a regular basis with Consultant Dietitian and Lead Nurse - Exercises a personal duty of care in relation to equipment, resource and stock control ordering and utilising equipment and supplies appropriately. - Work with Lead Nurse to lead the development of nursing practice, reflecting the CMT and Nursing Directorate business plans - Set, monitor and seek to continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care, including those standards defined in the National Benchmarks for Essential Care - Promote evidence-based practice, wherever possible - Propose, develop and implement policy, protocols and practice guidelines specific to the clinical specialty. - Contributes to the development of specialist protocols for specialist area. - Proposes policy and service change and leads the development of the same within and beyond own specialist area. - Engage users and carers views on service delivery and development. Research and Audit - Contribute to the research agenda. Participate in clinical trials as appropriate - Undertake nursing research and lead audit programmes specific to client group, treatments and developments. - Participate in clinical trials as appropriate. Person Specification Qualifications Essential Registered Nurse (Level 1) Recognised teaching/assessing qualification Post registration qualification in diabetes Evidence of continued professional development Willing to undergo training as necessary Desirable Master Level Degree Education Extended/Supplementary prescribing Experience Essential Experience at Sister/Charge Nurse level or equivalent within speciality Highly developed specialist specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience Clinical audit, research and standard setting Experience in managing people with diabetes Ability to deliver formal/informal teaching Desirable Service development and/or change management Experience in use of diabetes technologies in diabetes management Skills & behaviours Essential Excellent interpersonal and communication skills Excellent organisational skills Ability to work as part of a team Leadership skills Demonstrates motivation, enthusiasm in excellent care provision Desirable Ability to drive and access to a vehicle. Person Specification Qualifications Essential Registered Nurse (Level 1) Recognised teaching/assessing qualification Post registration qualification in diabetes Evidence of continued professional development Willing to undergo training as necessary Desirable Master Level Degree Education Extended/Supplementary prescribing Experience Essential Experience at Sister/Charge Nurse level or equivalent within speciality Highly developed specialist specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience Clinical audit, research and standard setting Experience in managing people with diabetes Ability to deliver formal/informal teaching Desirable Service development and/or change management Experience in use of diabetes technologies in diabetes management Skills & behaviours Essential Excellent interpersonal and communication skills Excellent organisational skills Ability to work as part of a team Leadership skills Demonstrates motivation, enthusiasm in excellent care provision Desirable Ability to drive and access to a vehicle. 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. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). Additional information 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. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). Employer details Employer name Leeds Teaching Hospitals Address St. James's University Hospital Beckett Street Leeds LS9 7TF Employer's website https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)