Job summary
- Main area
- Diabetes
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 844-8080089
- Employer
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Catherine's Health Centre
- Town
- Birkenhead
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata, per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Diabetic Specialist Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 7
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:
We will support you and your community to live well.
Our values:
Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.
Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.
Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.
WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
Job overview
To work within the community nursing service to support patients with diabetes, as part of a team collaboration with Wirral University Teaching Hospital’s diabetes service. The post-holder will have managerial and clinical supervision from WCHC, with access to specialist clinical supervision and professional development from the Wirral University Teaching Hospital team
Main duties of the job
Supporting discharges from hospital for patients with complex insulin regimens as part of a multidisciplinary team, ensuring safe, timely and well-coordinated discharges.
Developing and delivering training and advice in diabetes and diabetes management to staff in and beyond district nursing, including titration of patients on insulin.
Providing direct specialist diabetes nursing assessment and support (including for self-management) to their own caseload of patients, typically housebound, and including those on palliative care pathways, ensuring their diabetes management needs are met.
To conduct joint home visits and to provide specialist clinical patient assessments, to support frontline clinical staff in the delivery of high quality, safe, integrated community care.
To contribute to the development of best practice and facilitate shared learning to develop services and initiatives that meet local needs, in relation to aims and objectives of Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Working for our organisation
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by CQC (Dec 2023) with some outstanding areas.
As an aspiring outstanding Trust we have numerous policies and procedures in place which provide standard organisational ways of working, in line with organisational objectives, relevant legislation and requirements. Policies allow for continuity and consistency within the Trust. Employees must abide by and adhere to all Wirral Community NHS Trust’s policies, at all times.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy for a thorough overview of the main duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- V300 Prescriber with experiences in diabetes formulary and insulin management
- Registered with the National and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Degree/ Diploma in relevant clinical area
- Evidence of master’s level study or equivalent specialist experience
- Diabetes relevant specialist professional development
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship Course Level 6 or equivalent
- Leadership Course Level 6 or equivalent
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Substantive experience in specialist diabetes management.
- Experience in training, presenting and leading groups
- Experience of working collaboratively with other agencies and professions to deliver change
- Evidence of leading innovation and change in clinical practice
- Experience of self-management and managing others
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Ability to use email, internet and word processing software
- Experience in evaluating service delivery
- Participation in a diversity of Nurse Practitioner or therapy care issues and settings
- Has experience of supporting and guiding learners
- Experience of mentorship and preceptorship of junior staff
- Experience of exploring innovative ways of working and ensuring best practice within the clinical area
- Experience of multi-disciplinary working
- Evidence of significant involvement in change management
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Community Services within nursing or therapy and working clinically within those services ✔
Skills and attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to constructively challenge
- Ability to demonstrate leadership
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Effective verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
- Effective organisational skills
- Ability to support and motivate staff
Desirable criteria
- Operational management experience
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work flexibly as part of an out of hours rota
- Able to build effective relationships that engage and support individuals and teams in change
- Ability to influence and negotiate
- Leadership qualities
- High levels of personal awareness
- Access to a car for work purposes
Desirable criteria
- Operational management experience
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
- Caroline Loveridge
- Job title
- Community & Specialist Nurse Manager/ACP
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07817475901
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