Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Job overview

Stockport Foundation Trust is seeking a highly motivated diabetes nurse to join their Integrated Diabetes Team. We at Stockport take pride with the understanding that the team manage all aspects of the speciality including Inpatient work, pregnancy, insulin pumps, young adults and transition, complex wound and foot alongside community referrals from primary care. The post advertised requires minimum of 2 years experience working as a DSN with knowledge of diabetes technology and implementation.

Main duties of the job

• To assess, plan, prioritise, implement and evaluate nursing interventions to meet the patients’ needs which may be in the community or acute setting.
• To actively participate in delivering health care for people with diabetes in Stockport; to ensure high quality and safe standards of care.

• To advise, educate and support clients and carers on the management of diabetes by providing specialised programmes of care in relation to health and illness and the development of self-management techniques including individual and group sessions
• Adhere to Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Conduct and associated guidelines.
• Maintain confidentiality in all aspects of care and employment
• Be actively involved in clinical supervision of nursing and midwifery

staff.

• Act as a role model at all times.
• Maintain relevant professional registration.
• Maintain appropriate records adhering to Trust and Nursing &
• Midwifery Council (NMC) guidelines on record keeping

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Work as part of the MDT in specialist clinics such as ante-natal, pump, young adults and inpatient diabetes cover.

• Provide specialist expertise, knowledge, advice and education demonstrating a sound understanding of the management of patients in this area
• Demonstrate a high level of judgement, discretion and decision making in diabetes management within the acute or community setting, with an aim to reduce hospital attendance/admission and reduce length of stay during in-patient care
• Deliver education including structured programmes to people with diabetes to enable them to self-manage their condition
• Develop and deliver educational/training programmes and act as a specialist resource for staff and colleagues to improve standards of diabetes care
• Develop and implement diabetes policies and standards based on national guidelines, as well as provision of specialist care
• Monitor and improve standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence based practice, learning and development and the provision of skilled clinical leadership
• Support the service lead with service improvement development

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.