An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Diabetes nursing team.
We are looking for an experienced, motivated and committed Diabetes Specialist Nurse with a passion for improving the experience and clinical outcomes of our patients, and who inspires others to provide excellent patient care.
We are looking for a nurse who has experience of working autonomously, supporting patients with a variety of diabetes treatments, and playing a key role in education of other healthcare professionals.
Main duties of the job
Post holder will play a central role in the development and delivery of a high-quality specialist nursing service for patients with diabetes as part of the multi-disciplinary Diabetes Team at Salisbury Foundation Trust (SFT). The successful candidate will work autonomously and within the wider diabetes team, delivering timely support and education in specialist areas including pump therapy and associated technologies, preconception and antenatal care, young adult/transitional services as well as supporting other specialist areas such as renal and foot.
They will also have a key role in supporting other members of the immediate DSN team on a daily basis providing clinical supervision, continual professional development support and upskilling where needed. Education and support will be delivered to other health care professionals focusing on all aspects of diabetes.
You will be expected to work across boundaries in collaboration with the SFT inpatient diabetes service, the primary care diabetes team, General Practitioners and wider multidisciplinary team.
As a specialist nurse you will act as an accountable, autonomous practitioner in the co-ordination and delivery of evidence-based expert nursing care for diabetes patients, their relatives and carers and will use well-developed decision-making skills to formulate treatment plans and initiate changes in management of care when necessary.
Working for our organisation
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Education, Qualifications and Training
* First Level Registered Nurse
* Advanced Degree or Diploma in Nursing
* Independent Non-Medical Prescriber or Working Towards
We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:
* Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
* Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
* An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months & non contractual) pro rata
* Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
* Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
* An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
* Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
* Cycle to work scheme
* Uniform provided (where required)
* On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
* On site health and fitness club
* On site car parking (fee's and restrictions apply)
* Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.
We continue to encourage and support our staff to participate in the seasonal respiratory vaccination programme in order to protect themselves, colleagues and their patients.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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