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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Diabetes Specialist Nurse to join our dynamic diabetes specialist nursing team in Herefordshire.

The successful candidate will work 30h/week as part of the multidisciplinary team across primary and secondary care with the aim of:

• Providing and supporting high quality holistic individualised diabetes care to patients with complex diabetes needs in the community, their families and/or carers.
• Preventing hospital admission
• Promoting a greater understanding of diabetes and empowering patients, their families and carers and other agencies and professionals involved with the patient through education, support and counselling.
• Nurturing collaboration and shared decision making

You will be responsible for managing a caseload of patients with complex diabetes needs, using evidence based practice and patient centred goals to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.

You will also be responsible for providing supervision and professional leadership to junior members of the DSN team.

Main duties of the job

• To work closely with both primary and secondary care to ensure a safe and effective patient pathway is in place for people with increasing frailty and complex diabetes needs. 
• Working as part of a wider Multi-Disciplinary Team, you will be involved in the assessment, review and complex care planning, employing the use of diabetes technologies, where appropriate, for people with complex diabetes needs, in order to provide seamless, integrated care.  
• Representing diabetes specialist nursing team and attending multidisciplinary meetings and diabetes clinics in hospital and the community 
• Conducting patient reviews in a wide range of settings, depending on service and clinical needs.

Working for our organisation

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.