Diabetic Specialist Nurse

Job overview

The post holder will be part of the Maternity Diabetes Specialist Service providing Diabetes Care and Management to pregnant women /people and their family.

This is a dynamic post that requires the post holder to work closely with multi-disciplinary team in addressing a range of care to women/people with Diabetes in pregnancy with special interest in Insulin Pump for Type 1 Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and improving the health and wellbeing of women and their babies.

Main duties of the job

• Be competent as appropriate to the requirements of the role of Diabetes Specialist Nurse. Demonstrate at all times the Trust Values. Be a Registered First Level Nurse with current NMC Registration and have a detailed professional and clinical knowledge. They will be a specialist practitioner and have a focus in Diabetes care with good knowledge of technological advances in Diabetes. Be responsible for a defined population of service users in a variety of settings across the Chelsea and Westminster Foundation Trust.  (This role is based at West Middlesex Site , not cross site )

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attached job description

Be skilled in the assessment of complex/specialist care/support needs and in the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support packages.

Have supervisory, training and leadership responsibilities where appropriate and will have some responsibility for team performance and service developments/improvements.

Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems.

• Work with the team leader undertaking delegated tasks in team management.