University Hospital Wishaw
The Role
We are looking to recruit a Specialist Nurse (Childrens Services Diabetes) to join the Integrated Community Children's Nursing Service at University Hospital Wishaw!
The Specialist Nurse will provide nursing leadership within the Integrated Community Children's Nursing Service, in supporting the delivery of nursing skills and knowledge in the care, management and education of children, with specific specialist disorders within the hospital and community setting.
This role encompasses autonomous practice, caseload management and a level of specialist knowledge and intervention, required by a specific patient group, their carers and other staff involved in the care delivery process.
Contract type and Shift Pattern
1. Fixed Term - 13 months (until November 2025)
2. Band 6 / Full Time / 37 hours
3. Monday - Friday 9am-5pm
NHS Lanarkshire
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
Why join NHS Lanarkshire?
Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.
Some of NHS Lanarkshire benefits include:
4. A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service (pro-rata for part time staff)
5. A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
6. Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the )
7. Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
8. Occupational health services
9. Employee Counselling services
10. Work-life Balance policies and procedures
NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.
What we'll need you to bring
11. Registered Sick Childrens Nurse with valid NMC Registration.
12. Educated to/working towards/operating at Degree Level.
13. Post graduate expertise within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently.
14. Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality / area of practice.
15. Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions, pathology, policies and procedures associated with the speciality/area of practice ensuring that the level of expertise can be utilised to deliver leadership within speciality / area of practice.
16. Leadership skills to enable the day to day management of service delivery.
17. Further education/evidence of Continuous Professional Development in area of speciality including study days/courses/post graduate qualification.
18. The post holder will possess excellent team-working/leadership skills and have the ability to motivate others and work using own initiative.
19. Excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills.
20. Effective time management skills
21. Working knowledge of basic information technology.
It would be good if you also had:
22. Masters Degree in specialist area
23. Evidence of further education including Post Grad Certification,
24. Diploma continuous professional development in relevant areas.
25. Qualified paediatric/child branch nurse.
26. Experience working in the Community.
27. Evidence of personal/team research and audit
28. Demonstrate knowledge of locality and national Policy within speciality.
29. Expert clinic practice
30. Up to date with research and development for speciality
31. Demonstrate analytical and judgement skills
32. Competent in application of research based evidence in working practice
33. Skilled in establishing and maintaining relationships.
34. Ability to prioritise workload
35. Evidence of training
36. Evidence of effective problem solving skills
37. IT and database management skills
38. Flexible and adaptable in responding to service needs in dynamic and rapidly changing environment.
39. Car Driver with full UK licence
40. Concentration when driving
41. Ability to carry clinical equipment eg monitoring equipment
42. Ability to carry non clinical equipment eg records, health promotion equipment, laptop & projector
Looking to find out more?
If youre looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you!