Job overview

•  Due to resignation as a result of relocation,   an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Permanent post for band 6 diabetes specialist nurse 
• To work as a member of the multidisciplinary diabetes care team in hospital.
• Provide education, advice and support to inpatients and outpatients with diabetes and their carers, under the supervision of the Diabetes Specialist Nurses. 
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary team to promote integrated care for inpatients within the diabetes care. 

Main duties of the job

• To provide a high standard of diabetes care. To act in a consultative role to patients, relatives, and health professionals on the management of diabetes mellitus.
• The post holder will utilise skills to assess and identify inpatient needs and implement delivery of appropriate individualised care for people with diabetes.
• The post holder will take daily responsibility for managing a defined caseload, with the support of existing nursing and medical staff.
• Specialist holistic advice and education will be provided for in patients and their carers, referring on as appropriate for follow up care on discharge.

Working for our organisation

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.

Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma.

Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. 

The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.