Job summary
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Paediatric Diabetes
Band 7
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
Following the promotion of our paediatric diabetes specialist nurse, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join a team of motivated and dynamic children’s diabetes service. The successful candidate will be working in an award-winning team. The post requires continued collaboration with the acute and community paediatric leads within North Middlesex Hospital and across North Central London.
We are seeking an experienced children’s nurse, with experience in acute and community, children or neonatal services practicing at band 6 level or above. The team that you will work with you is talented, motivated, and expanding with several exciting new roles concurrently advertised. We are looking for a candidate who will be visible, patient and staff focused to work within this excellent team.
This is the perfect role for an nurse who wishes to pursue a CNS role in diabetes.’ For internal applications this post could be considered as a secondment with your direct line manager support.
Main duties of the job
The Diabetic Nurse Specialist and will act as a Lead and role model providing expertise in the area of paediatric diabetes. They will provide specialist care to individual patients or patient groups as a component of the patients wider care management and in collaboration with the wider multi-professional healthcare team.
The Diabetic Nurse Specialist should be educated to first degree level in a health related subject and have completed appropriate post registration education development within paediatric diabetes. The individual must also have a Masters/or working towards the award.
Working for our organisation
The Paediatric Diabetes team is a multidisciplinary service consisting of consultant staffing, Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist Support, Diabetes Dietitian support, Registered Nursing Associate, admin service support, and input from the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Paediatric Liaison Team (CAPPLT) providing a comprehensive service to all patients with diabetes, whether this be newly diagnosed, or maintaining their health following a diagnosis.
The service operates Monday – Friday and provides Outpatient, Psychotherapy, Psychology, and ambulating services to all patients within the cohort, as well as providing support to external stakeholders such as local GP practices and schools, and the service works in tandem with other Diabetes team within hospitals in the North Central London area.
The team also provide out of hours telephone ‘on-call’ support on a rostered basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
A full list of duties and responsibilities will be found within the job description and requirements for the role can be found within the person specification.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc in Nursing or Relevant professional knowledge acquired through a degree, relevant to the specialty supported by specialist training, experience, or short courses to master’s level equivalent
- Evidence of continuing Professional development.
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work with complex facts which require analysis, interpretation and to present findings
- The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.
- Ability to manage high level projects across a range of disciplines and to influence others without having direct authority.
- Excellent presentation skills with ability to present complex information in an easily understandable format.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Practicing Paediatric Nurse or AHP on register with significant experience at a senior level.
- Experience in managing highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information to include analysis of data and reporting on same.
Trust Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anne Biggs
- Job title
- Matron - Paediatric Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 887 3301
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