Diabetes Specialist Nurse

This role involves clinical decision-making, advanced clinical practice, support with service projects and delivery of scheduled and unscheduled clinical care.

The successful candidate will be capable of acting as an expert resource on diabetes and have close liaison with GPs, other members of the integrated community teams, and with social care partners is an essential facet of the role.

The service has close liaison with the local secondary care providers, primary care, voluntary organisations and local authorities with the aim of providing a seamless journey for people living with diabetes.
The Trust supports staff with career development, physical and mental health and wellbeing as well as many other benefits. This an amazing opportunity to be part of the diabetes team and the Trust., Post holders must be able to actively demonstrate and proactively to deliver effective and personal care which is safe for patients in a calm, caring and compassionate manner to every patient, every time.
To perform a comprehensive Diabetes assessment of adults referred to the Diabetes Nursing service with diverse presentations and complex physical and medical conditions.
Use analytical skills to undertake the nurse led consultation and assess the person with diabetes in the community setting and be able to plan, implement and evaluate care in a holistic and inclusive way, ensuring where possible engagement and cooperation with care goals. Care provided will reflect current local and national guidelines.
To provide relevant diabetes educational sessions to other Health care professionals, junior diabetes nurses colleagues, patient and their families, residential and nursing home where appropriate.
To undertake evidence-based audit and a project to further own and teams' clinical practice. Make recommendations to clinical lead or manager where appropriate.
Participate in research and clinical audit within the field of diabetes, both locally and nationally and to disseminate any research findings.
Supervise and support junior members of the team in managing their caseloads.
Use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients and carers to progress treatment programmes

Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Take a tour of our hospital here, This role involves clinical decision-making, advanced clinical practice, support with service projects and delivery of scheduled and unscheduled clinical care.

The successful candidate will be capable of acting as an expert resource on diabetes and have close liaison with GPs, other members of the integrated community teams, and with social care partners is an essential facet of the role.

The service has close liaison with the local secondary care providers, primary care, voluntary organisations and local authorities with the aim of providing a seamless journey for people living with diabetes.