Band 6 Diabetes Specialist Nurse | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The Diabetes Nurse Specialist will have responsibility in line with national and local guidelines and protocols to provide assessment of patients needs and advise on appropriate diabetes management. The role will involve empowering patients with the skills and knowledge necessary to attain independence in self-management.

Your role is to effectively manage a caseload of patients with diabetes utilising specialist clinical knowledge/practice.

To work alongside and build relationships with the local GP surgeries, secondary care diabetes colleagues and community inter-disciplinary teams, delivering high quality Diabetes Care across acute and community settings.

The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of diabetes nursing. Specialist knowledge will have been gained through previous substantial diabetes clinical experience, and the successful applicant will be able to demonstrate evidence of educating patients and health care staff alike.

Working clinically you will be supported by a team of Senior Diabetes Specialist Nurses and Consultants to develop enhanced diabetes, leadership and management skills.

The role will involve undertaking clinical assessments with hybrid working, virtually (with the use of digital platforms) and face to face in community clinics and patient's homes.

You will be part of a progressive, enthusiastic and dynamic community diabetes specialist team and play an instrumental part in the advancement of the service.

We would welcome an application from you if you have excellent people skills, excellent team working skills and a hunger and thirst for continual professional development.

Applicants must be able to meet the travel requirements of the post.

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.