Community Diabetic Nurse

Are you a dedicated and compassionate Registered Adult Nurse looking to make a meaningful impact in your community and provide high quality evidenced based care?
Join our Community Integrated Team, a multidisciplinary team committed to providing exceptional nursing and therapeutic care. Our service operates between 0800 - 1800, 7 days a week, supporting patients in their own homes with the goal of promoting maximum independence through self-management in daily activities.
You will need to be an effective team player with the ability to work independently with a strong commitment to collaborative working.
You will have the ability to support operational managers in resourcing the service and an understanding of professional and clinical decisions that influence procurement.
Why Join Us?
Joining our team means being part of a supportive and innovative community-focused service. You'll have the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of patients, particularly those with diabetes, by empowering them to live healthier, more independent lives.
If you are passionate about patient care and education, and eager to be a vital part of a multidisciplinary team, we encourage you to apply.
Embrace the opportunity to enhance patient care and contribute to a healthier community. Apply today to become a valued member of our Community Integrated Team!, As a Registered Adult Nurse in our team, you will:
Case Management: Manage care for a designated number of patients, working closely with GPs, Integrated Care Teams (ICTs), and other statutory and voluntary agencies, with a particular focus on diabetic patients.
Patient Education: Provide advice, information, and education to patients, families, and carers, enabling patients to achieve maximum independence, health, and well-being.
Self-Care Promotion: Encourage self-care management to prevent the worsening of conditions and improve health outcomes.
Best Practice: Ensure delivery of best practices in clinical care, caseload management, and education for both patients and team members.
Specialist Resource: Act as a specialist resource, offering expert advice on diabetes to patients, their families/carers, and health professionals.
Service Improvement: Enhance diabetes services for housebound and care home patients, including liaising with secondary care diabetes services.
Leadership in Projects: Lead the implementation, education, and training of the insulin care home project, supporting care homes in administering insulin to their residents., Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A, Please note that where response levels are exceptional we may close the post before the specified date, therefore early application is recommended.
Please make sure that you read the Job Description and Person Specification attached and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.
Secondment - if you are interested in undertaking a role on a secondment basis, please ensure that you have discussed this with your current line manager prior to submitting your application. Please note if you are already an employee of ESNEFT fixed term roles will only be offered on a secondment basis.
When providing reference details please provide email addresses so references can be sought promptly to cover the last 3 years of employment.
Successful candidates may be charged for their DBS check. Please ensure you read the information found in the attached DBS Information document
The Trust is committed to its staff and their development and to equal opportunities and diversity. Applications are welcomed from all sections of the community.
Whilst we welcome applications from all and your application will be considered on individual merit, if you are offered a position and require a Skilled Worker Certificate of Sponsorship we may not be able to process your application to the final stage due Home Office eligibility.
In submitting an application form, you authorise East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; we look forward to receiving your application for employment.

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Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of the ESNEFT's core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, Procedures and in its Practices, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole. The EDI Agenda reflects the Trust values such as Optimistic, Appreciative and Kind. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, People Plan, People Promise and a Model Employer intrinsic in the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Agenda, we consistently strive to improve, to take the learning into Action for a better ESNEFT., We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.