Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP) have an exciting opportunity for a 6 month secondment. We are looking for someone to join our dynamic and forward-thinking Community Specialist Diabetes Nursing Team as a Band 5 Community Diabetes Staff Nurse.

The post will be based in Crewe but covers the geographical areas of CCICP (Nantwich & Rural, Northwich, Winsford, Crewe & SMASH (Sandbach, Middlewich, Alsager, Scholar Green, Haslington).

CCICP Community Diabetes Specialist Nursing service is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated practitioner to join the DSN team. The service embraces new technologies for all adults in their journey with diabetes, including pregnancy and young persons.

The successful candidate will possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrate successful team working to support the service agenda in meeting the challenges of evolving diabetes care.

We have a fantastic team and are proud of what we achieve. We value teamwork and are looking for an individual who shares our passion for diabetes and commitment to continual personal development.

Main duties of the job

The Community Diabetes Staff Nurse will work with the Diabetes Specialist Nurses, contributing to the delivery of high quality evidence based treatment, for patients diagnosed with Diabetes in order to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and support patients to remain at home.

This encompasses all aspects of Diabetes management including implementation and evaluation of clinical management plans and reporting back to the Diabetes Specialist Nurses, delivery of care in a variety of settings, provision of holistic care to Diabetes patients and support to family/carers.

The Community Diabetes Nurse Service aims to provide high standards of holistic care to individual patients with Diabetes within the community setting, facilitating the prevention of avoidable admissions to hospital.

This involves close working with colleagues within secondary care as well as the wider community health care and social teams to achieve seamless care and optimal management of Diabetes through the provision of an Integrated Health Care Team approach to service delivery.

As a Diabetes Staff Nurse you will be responsible in assisting the Diabetes Specialist Nurses to manage an active caseload encompassing clinic and home visits.

About us

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester (population 357K). The Trust provides high quality planned and emergency care, cardiac, critical care,child health,maternity services and intermediate care at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.The Trust provides over 500 beds and employs over 5,100 members of staff. A comprehensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools through our Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership.

We have played, and continue to play, a proactive role in the development of Integrated Care plans across Cheshire & Merseyside and our local Cheshire East and Cheshire West Place-based systems. We believe, and it is the cornerstone of our five-year Trust Strategy, there is the opportunity to progress innovative, responsive and effective care in the best setting for the patient, be it in the hospital or out in the community.

At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.

We welcome all applicants and assess all job applications based on knowledge, skills and experience needed for the post.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Service Delivery

• Works autonomously to manage his/her own caseload of patients whilst working as part of a multidisciplinary team without direct medical supervision.
• Enables patient choice and involvement and initiates, under supervision, appropriate action.
• Coordinates and develops patient care pathway and liaises across organisational
• Undertakes specialist assessment and plans specialised programmes of care and provides highly specialised advice to patients, relatives and carers.
• Ensures each patient is placed in the correct treatment pathway at the appropriate time and necessary investigations and treatments are organised.
• Provides clinical advice and support to healthcare professionals within and across organisational boundaries
• Provides clinical advice in accordance with current evidence based practice.
• Undertakes nurse/practitioner -led clinics
• Participates in case conferences in relation to future management or discharge arrangements
• Ensures patients and their families are given appropriate oral and written information regarding planned care
• Maintains accurate patient records and ensures all relevant information is documented in the patients medical and nursing records
• Participates in MDT with consultants and specialist registrars to discuss complex case management

Governance

• Identify personal learning needs and take steps to pursue personal development
• Maintain practice within the context of the professional guidelines for the relevant professional body and policies laid down by the Trust
• Maintain a comprehensive personal profile and demonstrate appropriate professional development to Post Registration Education and Practice standards.
• Evaluate professional performance and identify implications for practice.
• Ensure the promotion of safety, well being and interests of patients, staff and visitors to the department
• Ensure compliance with Trust policies, procedures and guidelines for self and others, by taking action/alerting senior management team if practice appears to contravene policy, or if concerned about any aspect of patient care.

Management and Leadership

• Manages own caseload, and coordinates patient journey across business groups and organisational boundaries.
• Works in close collaboration with other health care professionals across organisational boundaries to ensure service meets patients needs
• Assists with initialising of new staff
• Supports in the development of local policies, protocols and procedures in accordance with local and national standards in relation to specialist area of expertise
• Ensure a healthy, safe and secure working environment, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, maintaining accurate documentation and reporting any concerns.

Research

• To participate in clinical audits and development of knowledge within specialist field of practice
• To carry out research in relation to specialist area of practice taking into account local and national guidance
• Undertakes evidence based practice and ensures dissemination of relevant research and best practice
• Supports and advises junior staff who may wish to undertake audit and research in specialist field

Education and Learning

• Support the development, planning and delivery of a range of specialist educational and training programmes for healthcare professionals, patients and carers
• Support in the teaching and development of healthcare professionals, patients and carers
• Provides mentorship to junior or new clinical nurse specialists / practitioners/nurses / medical staff as required
• Identifies assists and meets the educational needs of the patient and their family
• Maintains own professional development, skills and competencies through participation in training and development activities
• Maintains and updates evidence based knowledge and skills.
• Fulfils all mandatory training requirements for the trust
• Undertakes health promotion across organisational boundaries.
• Take responsibility for own learning and development by recognising and taking advantage of all opportunities to learn, including full participation in KSF/appraisal, supervision, action learning and by maintaining a professional/personal portfolio of learning.

This job description is an outline of the role and function. It is not intended to describe all specific tasks.

Person Specification

Qualification/Knowledge/previous experience

Essential

• RGN/RN qualification
• NMC Registered
• Excellent communication skills
• Evidence based practice

Desirable

• Experience in diabetes
• Previous Caseload Management experience.
• Experience of contributing to the teaching and mentoring of staff
• Evidence of CPD

Communication

Essential

• Excellent communication/interpersonal skills

Desirable

• Evidence of communication with the wider team

Experience

Essential

• The ability to work independently
• Excellent time management skill

Desirable

• Diabetes experience
• Experience Managing a caseload

Employer details

Employer name

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Infinity House

Mallard Way Crewe Business Park

Crewe

CW1 6ZQ

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