Job overview

Are you a skilled diabetes nurse looking for a new challenge?

As the Specialist Diabetes Nurse within the community diabetes team, you will work alongside the Specialist Diabetes Dietitian to provide leadership to our friendly and supportive team of nurses, dietitians, nutritionists and administrators who together deliver care to people with complex type 2 diabetes.

Working across the county of Gloucestershire, you will deliver care to people within their own homes and in clinic settings, helping people with diabetes to feel empowered to effectively self-manage their condition.

You will also work closely with colleagues across the healthcare system, helping to develop integrated pathways for care and enhancing skills in diabetes management across the workforce  

If you are passionate about improving outcomes for people living with diabetes, developing services and leading others we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

To work effectively as a member of the MDT, which includes consultants, diabetes specialist nurses and dietitians, nutritionists, primary care colleagues, community teams and medical staff to improve outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes.

To provide highly specialist advice on diabetes management to enable the delivery of evidence-based diabetes care.

To contribute to MDT clinics in primary and secondary care.

Provide joint practice-based clinic sessions to optimise diabetes treatment care planning and prescribing decisions for complex patients within primary care.

To support the development of integrated pathway working across organisational boundaries.

To share expertise in diabetes management within the diabetes team, organisation and wider local healthcare system.

To provide clinical leadership and line management to nurses in the diabetes team.

To work collaboratively with system colleagues to develop and update local strategy, guidelines and protocols for the management of type two diabetes in Gloucestershire, which will impact on the practice of other teams.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification. 

Working for our organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us.  In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views.  It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement.  However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.