Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

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These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

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A GP with a specialist interest in diabetes managing the care of patients with diabetes within a community care setting, working alongside a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive care and support. 

The post holder will contribute to the Kingston Tier 3 Diabetes team by: -

·         Delivering evidence-based practice for patients with Type 2 Diabetes in the community with Multidisciplinary Team clinics across the borough of Kingston.

·         Working collaboratively with the Kingston Tier 3 Multidisciplinary Team and others to meet the needs of patients and carers.

·         Supporting and providing mentorship to other team members and Primary Care colleagues.

·         Contributing towards the service achieving its Key Performance Indicators.

This post is 3 sessions per month and will focus on a predominantly clinical role within the diabetes community team. The successful applicant will work alongside the diabetes specialist nurses who is delivering the service delivery role.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

·         To assess and treat new and follow up patients with Type 2 Diabetes referred from primary care

·         . The focus will be on educating the patient and their family and devising an appropriate management plan to be delivered by the specialist team in partnership with the patient and their primary care team

·         Management plan to include glycaemic control, cardiovascular risk and with consideration to each individual patient’s goals

·         To contribute to multidisciplinary reviews, care planning, clinical reports and referral to other appropriate agencies/services.

·         To provide health education advice for clients following the medical assessment / review.

·         To communicate and work with members of the wider diabetes specialist team to further develop the patients care plan

·         To follow NICE and SWL ICB and local pathways in the recommendations for treatment and technology for patients

·         To communicate effectively with service users, carers, families and other staff and professionals utilising forms of communication appropriate to the recipients.

·         To develop effective working relationships with a range of professionals.

·         To communicate appropriately with others within and outside the NHS in accordance with the Trust’s relevant policies.

·         To attend and contribute to relevant professional and service meetings and other multidisciplinary and multi-agency meetings.

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