Lead Diabetes Nurse Specialist
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced nurse to join the Diabetes Team as the Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse.
We are looking for an individual able to lead the diabetes specialist nursing team to provide developments to improve outcomes for people with diabetes and delivery of safe and effective care for patients, based upon evidence based national guidance and protocols.
The role is primarily hospital based and will lead co-ordinated patient care across both primary and secondary care.
You will work autonomously and carry a complex patient caseload in community and/or secondary care andwill be devoted to developing and influencing strategic and professional direction of the Diabetes Specialist Nursing service across Wye Valley NHS Trust and Herefordshire.A key emphasis of the role is to empower nursing staff to provide best practice for patients and to work as an effective role model, and to support the professional development and leadership roles of existing diabetes specialist nurse post holders.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Responsibilities
To provide diabetes specialist nursing skills, knowledge and expertise in clinical practice, in order to act as a resource for other staff
Run speciality complex patient care clinics and clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan complex clinical care accordingly.
Prescribing Role
Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and local protocols, and within scope of practice
As a Non-Medical Prescriber undertake high quality thorough patient assessments and prescribe within scope of practice and competence within specialist field.
Managerial and Service Development Responsibilities
To direct, lead, motivate and inspire the diabetes specialist nursing team to ensure a high standard of professionalism, efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of the service across Herefordshire This will include coaching, mentoring, resource planning, standard setting, performance management, team and individual development and vision setting.
Please see accompanying JD/PS for further information
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Managerial and Service Development Responsibilities
To direct, lead, motivate and inspire the diabetes specialist nursing team to ensure a high standard of professionalism, efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of the service across Herefordshire This will include coaching, mentoring, resource planning, standard setting, performance management, team and individual development and vision setting.
Communication
Training & Education
Be a role model for all staff by demonstrating self-education to improve ones knowledge and improve practice.
Research and Audit
Work within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential
Experience
Essential
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
County Hospital
Union Walk
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
229-MED-6503680
We are looking for an individual able to lead the diabetes specialist nursing team to provide developments to improve outcomes for people with diabetes and delivery of safe and effective care for patients, based upon evidence based national guidance and protocols.
The role is primarily hospital based and will lead co-ordinated patient care across both primary and secondary care.
You will work autonomously and carry a complex patient caseload in community and/or secondary care andwill be devoted to developing and influencing strategic and professional direction of the Diabetes Specialist Nursing service across Wye Valley NHS Trust and Herefordshire.A key emphasis of the role is to empower nursing staff to provide best practice for patients and to work as an effective role model, and to support the professional development and leadership roles of existing diabetes specialist nurse post holders.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Responsibilities
To provide diabetes specialist nursing skills, knowledge and expertise in clinical practice, in order to act as a resource for other staff
Run speciality complex patient care clinics and clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan complex clinical care accordingly.
Prescribing Role
Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and local protocols, and within scope of practice
As a Non-Medical Prescriber undertake high quality thorough patient assessments and prescribe within scope of practice and competence within specialist field.
Managerial and Service Development Responsibilities
To direct, lead, motivate and inspire the diabetes specialist nursing team to ensure a high standard of professionalism, efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of the service across Herefordshire This will include coaching, mentoring, resource planning, standard setting, performance management, team and individual development and vision setting.
Please see accompanying JD/PS for further information
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Managerial and Service Development Responsibilities
To direct, lead, motivate and inspire the diabetes specialist nursing team to ensure a high standard of professionalism, efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of the service across Herefordshire This will include coaching, mentoring, resource planning, standard setting, performance management, team and individual development and vision setting.
Communication
- Maintain effective communication with patients, carers and professionals to ensure seamless service delivery
- To liaise with other internal and external agencies to improve the care for people with diabetes across Herefordshire
- To ensure opinions of patients and carers are actively sought in improving the service and for future service development
- Take personal responsibility for ensuring effective communication between all service providers.
Training & Education
Be a role model for all staff by demonstrating self-education to improve ones knowledge and improve practice.
Research and Audit
Work within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
- Collaborate with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to develop and update multi-professional Trust operational policies and guidelines.
- Develop new skills in response to emerging knowledge and techniques.
- Support the development of a research-based culture within the speciality
- Ensure research findings are utilised as a basis for best practice.
- Initiates and supports the development of clinical audit and clinical research in their own specialist areaPlease see accompanying JD/PS for further information
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse NMC Registration
- Relevant specialist qualification or training to diploma level or equivalent experience
- Masters level qualification
- Independent Prescriber
- Leadership or management development qualification/training
- Evidence of continued professional development within Diabetes
Desirable
- Recognised Teaching qualification
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential
- Significant post registration experience, including experience of working in diabetes clinical speciality
- Proven leadership skills
- Analytical approach to problem solving and ability to make complex clinical judgements requiring assimilation, interpretation and decisions where there may be a range of options
- Ability to manage own caseload, work autonomously and as part of a team
Experience
Essential
- Experience of trainee supervision and teaching
- Experience in delivering patient advocacy
- Experience in contributing to research, audit and evidence-based care
- Experience in delivering service improvement
- Experience of working in an MDT and across organisational and professional boundaries
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
County Hospital
Union Walk
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
229-MED-6503680
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