A Vacancy at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.
We are recruiting for a Clinical Nurse Specialist - Children and Young People's Diabetes Team who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated, dynamic and forward thinking professional who are committed to enhancing and developing the service.
As a member of a multidisciplinary team, you will demonstrate a level of expertise within the specialist service, providing specialist advice, education and support to healthcare professionals, schools and voluntary organisations as well as parents/carers. You will have a key role in the management of these children in the community or referring hospital. You will be supporting children, young people and their families from diagnosis through to transition to adult services.
This is an ideal opportunity for career progression for a paediatric nurse with experience in looking after children with diabetes.
You will receive a High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,258 and a maximum payment of £2,121.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
To work collaboratively with all members of the Multidisciplinary team that constitutes the Diabetes service at the East and North Herts NHS Trust to deliver effective, high quality, safe patient centred care.
Contribute to the continuing education, training and professional development of the nursing staff to promote the acquisition of new skills and knowledge in the clinical areas.
Support the MDT to deliver best practice for all patients and their families driving forward a programme to ensure excellent care delivery.
Lead and support junior staff to ensure a high quality service is delivered in line with national guidance. Mentoring and supporting junior staff and students, Line managing staff ensuring appraisals and objectives are up to date.
Work closely with adult services to ensure a smooth transition pathway.
Facilitate service development and assist in the overall business planning process working closely with the senior leadership team.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Friday 24 Jan 2025