Deputy Diabetic Specialist Nurse | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated and enthusiastic nurse with some diabetes experienced to join the Diabetes service at Guy's & St Thomas which includes our Lambeth and Southwark Community Sites

As a department we are very patient focused supporting innovation and service development to continually improve care for people with diabetes. We are a busy tertiary specialist diabetes centre with over 2000 people with type 1 diabetes and 600 people on Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion (insulin pumps). We also have a forward-thinking community service across the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark actively supporting patients with T1 and Type 2 diabetes. Education of patients and other health care colleagues is an essential part of this role, The primary function of the role is to assist the highly specialised diabetes nurse, and working autonomously to assess for patients with diabetes and advise non-specialist practitioners on diabetes management plans as required. The specialist diabetes nurses are one integrated team across the community and secondary care diabetes services.

This is a hybrid integrated hospital / community DSN post based within GSTT Diabetes service.

In partnership with members of the multidisciplinary team the post holder will develop, implement and evaluate a seamless specialist service, ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of clinical care. They are assist specialist and will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the service, providing specialist advice, education and support to health care professionals and patients. The post holder will actively undertake clinical audits and research within the specialist area.

The post holder will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research and standards of care within the service, including development of policies, protocols and guidelines and contribute to service developments in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues. Also ensures the safety and well being of services users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person centred care principles

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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

The primary function of the role is to act as highly specialised diabetes nurse working along with the specialist diabetes nurse to assess, treat for patients with diabetes and advise non-specialist practitioners on diabetes management plans as required. The specialist diabetes nurses are one integrated team across the community and secondary care diabetes services.

This is a hybrid integrated hospital / community DSN post based within GSTT Diabetes service.

In partnership with members of the multidisciplinary team the post holder will develop, implement and evaluate a seamless specialist service, within the specialist service working closely with diabetologists, specialist dietitian, and the specialist midwifery and obstetric teams ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of clinical care. They act as a lead specialist and will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service, providing specialist advice, education and support to health care professionals and patients. The post holder will actively undertake clinical audits and research within the specialist area.