Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Job overview

Diabetes Inpatient Specialist Nurse

Band 7

Permanent

• Hours per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Diabetes Inpatient Specialist Nurse (DiSN) to be at the forefront of driving up standards and quality in diabetes care within the Inpatient Diabetes team of Liverpool University Hospitals (Aintree Hospital).

The role will also include working in a variety of clinical areas within inpatient diabetes nurse service, there will also be some development opportunities to work in outpatient clinics including complex MDT foot clinic within the Diabetes Centre and sub specialist clinics e.g. antenatal clinic, pre-operative assessment clinic .

The successful applicant must have more than 6 months (Band 6 or above) experience of working autonomously within the specialist field as a Diabetes Inpatient Specialist nurse and with the ability to work to evidence-based guidelines; audit the care given to patients to make and suggest improvements in services.

The post holder will also be required to deliver complex educational packages to health care professionals and patients around effective diabetes management.

Main duties of the job

Act as Diabetes clinical expert to ward staff and medical staff, junior doctors and medical staff as a professional resource to Multi-Professional teams, patients and carers within the Diabetes speciality service.

The post holder will support the development of specialist area of practice in partnership with other members of the speciality teams across Acute Hospital.

The post holder will carry responsibility for a defined case load and offer highly specialist advice, setting standards of care, the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.

The post holder will contribute to achieving the objectives of the clinical service group/speciality corporate objectives and work within the clinical governance framework

They will lead the development and delivery of a programme of practice and professional development for delivery of care within the specialist area across the Acute hospital areas (Aintree)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Perform specialist assessment of patients care needs, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery using advanced clinical knowledge and clinical skills.

Lead clinical care by managing a patient caseload providing expert assessment, planning and evaluation.

Co-ordinate and manage clinician-led clinics (within Speciality).

Contribute towards a multi-professional approach in the management of patients within the specialist area, especially in relation to ongoing care needs and discharge arrangements.

Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers / relatives.

Support patients and their families and ensure that they receive the required information to enable them to self manage, lead or participate in their care delivery.

Recognise changes in patients condition that require the intervention of others and refer on as appropriate.

To support, assist and encourage the multi-disciplinary team in resolving patient problems, by the provision of new and innovative models of case management.

• To lead the specialist contribution to the service, in the delivery of high standards of patient care.
• To lead the specialist contribution to the service, work in partnership with lead clinicians, General Managers, Matron to ensure the delivery of high standards of patient care.

Act as a role model and expert clinician providing in depth specialist clinical knowledge to colleagues through MDT meetings, for patients and carers / relatives.

Undertake clinical supervision of colleagues on an individual or group basis.

Act as a resource for health care professionals by being visible, available, and accessible for support and advice in relation to the management of patients in the speciality.

Provide leadership to the team of specialists and working with the matron, develop new roles / ways of working (High Impact Changes). Linked to directorate business plans.

Management / Operational

Support management of a team of specialist clinicians towards achieving directorate, and Trust objectives

Support monitoring sickness, absence and competence issues in line with Trust Policy. Support recruitment and selection of staff in line with Trust Policy.

Applicant requirements

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.