Employer: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Wythenshawe and Trafford Hospitals
Town: Wythenshawe and Trafford
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum (Pro Rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/11/2024 23:59
Senior Diabetes Specialist Nurse
Band 7
Job Overview
The post holder will demonstrate detailed specialist knowledge of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. They will act as a source of specialist advice in the nursing management of patients in their specialist area who require a high level of judgment, discretion, and decision-making whilst as an inpatient/outpatient or in a setting external to the Trust. The post holder will provide education and training to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Assess, plan, prioritize, implement and evaluate nursing interventions to meet patients’ needs.
2. Be competent in all areas of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems, to include fitting the sensors and group teaching to both staff and patients.
3. Be responsible for assessing and recognizing emergencies in their specialty, able to interpret information and take appropriate action.
4. Provide specialist care, knowledge, and expertise, while empowering colleagues to ensure dissemination of knowledge and best practice.
5. Attend consultant-led outpatient clinics and report on cases as appropriate to the role.
6. Run nurse/midwife led clinics as appropriate to the role.
7. Provide highly specialist advice on the phone, liaising with general practitioners, district nurses, and hospital medical teams as appropriate.
8. Take a lead role in the organization and management of multi-professional patient care.
9. Contribute to and support the work of colleagues in the multi-disciplinary team.
Working for Our Organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.6bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.
We’ve created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post.
Person Specification
Experience
* Minimum of 2 years practicing as a diabetes nurse.
* Must have NMP qualification.
* Be competent with all Continuous glucose systems.
* Have experience with both primary and secondary care in relation to diabetes management.
* Must be willing to work across sites including Wythenshawe and Trafford.
* Be included in audit in relation to diabetes and diabetes care/safety.
* Ability to use both Hive and Emis recording systems.
* Be Dafne or Desmond trained to deliver patient structured NICE accredited education.
* Have delivered formal education to other healthcare employees in relation to diabetes and its management.
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.
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