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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Our dedicated  administration and operational team support clinicians and patients attending clinics in a variety of locations.  It’s a varied role, facilitating group education as well working individually with patients living with diabetes. This role will suit an experienced nurse with an interest in diabetes treatment and management looking to progress their career in a supportive, specialist team.   You’ll need to be organised and flexible to work autonomously in our busy clinics across Brighton, Hove and into East Sussex including Uckfield and Crowborough.    You’ll have time for service development, CPD and keeping up-to-date with NICE guidance and technologies and will have the support of the friendly nurse team as you support less experienced nurses in the team.  Previous supervisory experience is welcomed but for the right candidate not necessary.

Communication and working relationships

•  Establish and maintain effective working relationships with health professionals, patients and carers and facilitate communication between primary and secondary care to ensure the provision of high-quality specialist diabetes care to patients and carers at all stages of the care pathway.  Regular daily liaison with administrative and operational colleagues.
• Using advanced specialist skills be responsible for the assessing the physical and psycho-social needs of people living with diabetes, initiating the appropriate therapeutic care plans and treatments including insulin and GLP-1 initiation. Develop strategy and policies to support the Senior Diabetes Specialist Nurse to deliver an effective service through positive leadership, quality standards, communication and expert knowledge.
• Facilitate group education for people living with type 2 diabetes both in person and remotely via video platform.
• Identify and participate in opportunities and cross-professional training and organisation of service to patients/carers.
• Make presentations to a wide range of groups at meetings/conferences internal and external to the organisation in order to share work locally and nationally to influence both strategy and practice.
• Main tasks
• Provide specialist autonomous nurse-led care, as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT), to patients living with type 1 or type 2 Diabetes. Support patients living with diabetes with technologies including but not exclusively continuous glucose management (CGM), pumps and hybrid closed loops.
• Apply evidence-based knowledge of diabetes and contribute to the development and implementation of relevant policies, protocols and care pathways as appropriate.
• Provide routine guidance and support to less experienced members of the team as required.
• Attend and contribute to weekly MDT case discussions. Attend and participate in monthly team meetings.
• Participate in opportunities and cross-professional training and organisation of service to patients / carers.
• Participate at meetings / conferences internal and external to the organisation, in order to share work locally and nationally to influence both strategy and practice.
• Keep contemporaneous records and reports regarding patients’ on-going care and management including written reports to GPs of treatment changes and recommended management of care.
• Work with secondary care services with regards to information provision to ensure a whole system approach to diabetes management.
• Where appropriate prescribing qualification has been obtained and governance is in place, prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national practice protocols, within scope of practice.

   

  4. Main responsibilities

   

  • Act as role model to clinicians in the community to plan, develop and implement community diabetes services, ensuring patient / users are given the opportunity to contribute to service improvement / development.

   

  • Participate in networking and collaborative working with key service users and partner agencies within the local health economy in order to contribute to the development of education programmes for diabetes.

   

  • Undertake appropriate clinical risk assessments to inform the Trust of any circumstances that contribute to an unsafe environment for patients and staff.

   

  • Contribute to the development and delivery of a programmes tailored to the needs of patients living with type 2 diabetes or type 1 diabetes, underpinned by best practice and using a patient centred approach.

   

  • Participate in the development and maintenance of mechanisms to audit the quality of care and effectiveness.

   

  • Keep up to date with professional developments in diabetes including product information and attend appropriate forums related to specialist nurse role.

   

  • Proactively manage complaints at local level under the direction of the lead clinical nurse.

   

  • Participate in recruitment, induction and orientation programmes as directed by the lead nurse.

   

  • Deputise for the Senior Diabetes Specialist Nurse as required.