Diabetes Specialist Nurse

The post holder will be required to provide a comprehensive and integrated specialist nursing service

for people with diabetes both in the Hospital and in the Community.

The role aims to drive parity of esteem strengthening the diabetes service offer and partnership

approaches to ensure equal access, outcomes and experience in diabetes.

The post holder will join other colleagues providing a service for adult people with diabetes they will

act as an additional resource for nursing colleagues and other health workers offering expert care,

advice, teaching and support and building up communication links as needed. Flexibility is essential in, Main duties include providing an inpatient diabetes service. Assessing and reviewing acutely unwell

patients to enable they have a positive patient journey.

Ensuring that they are receiving high quality diabetic care as well as ensuring that their medications are

appropriate and patient centred to achieve good outcomes and reduce long term effects of diabetes.

Supportingpatients with the available technology eg CGM, Flash glucose monitoring and insulin pumps.

Empowering patients to take control of their diabetes and promote self management. Influencing

practice and partnership working across primary care, secondary and mental health and learning

If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager

You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.