Specialty Clinical Educator - Diabetes

Job overview

Diabetes Specialty Clinical Educator - Open to Nurses, Midwives & AHPs. Full-time 12 month Secondment

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic highly skilled and motivated registered practitioner to join the Diabetic specialist Team as a Diabetic Clinical Educator.  Our team is a large well established and supportive multi-disciplinary team offering holistic health care support to patients who have diabetes - Trust wide.

This post will suit candidates who thrive in roles which include variety, complexity and challenges alongside opportunities for growth. You must have a range of experience of working with people with a diabetes to enable you to upskill the workforce in developing their skills, knowledge and confidence in supporting people with a learning disability across both community and acute settings.

You are required to have excellent interpersonal and leadership skills and will need to be a highly motivated, committed practitioner who is passionate about delivering high quality education and guidance. You will provide expert assistance, support and exercise accountability as set out in the NMC  /HCPC Code of Professional Conduct. The role will have a significant amount of innovation, quality improvement and pathway development. If you feel you have the above attributes, then we would look forward to receiving your application.

Main duties of the job

The main purpose of the Diabetes Clinical Educator role is to understand the barriers and challenges with current training offers and co-produce a sustainable, accessible and high-quality training offer to community and acute staff within Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust. Upskilling the workforce and providing ongoing learning for staff and health professionals who support people with diabetes to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and accessible patient care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job description

This post will work trust wide into both acute and community services across NMAHP to;

• Comprehensively map education provision across the service.
• Work with staff to identify learning needs and support opportunities and training to meet those needs.
• Develop and deliver on-going education and training packages.
• Provide  high quality, education across the trust raising awareness in supporting people with a learning disability.
• Evaluate the impact of education on staff knowledge, skills and behaviours as well as patient care.
• Act as a clinical and professional role model to maintain and develop exceptional standards of care.
• Promote and foster a culture of education and clinical development with the workforce.
• Work alongside other specialities and professional groups to promote and maintain education and clinical development within the workforce.
• Role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.