Diabetes Specialist Nurse Team Lead | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

As a Band 7 Diabetes Specialist Nurse Team Lead, you will work within Sefton Place Community Diabetes Team, providing operational team leader support, along with clinical support to patients on the caseload. The post holder will need to demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge base in relation to Diabetes and promote excellence in nursing practice in a dynamic healthcare environment. The post holder is expected to provide visible leadership, demonstrating leadership values within the team and contribute to the delivery of specialist nursing care, caseload management and provide direct patient care, acting as an expert practitioner to optimise patient health, provide education for selfcare and complex management of patient pathways.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Diabetes Clinical Specialist Nurse, to work within Sefton Place Community Diabetes team as a Clinical Specialist Nurse Team Lead. You will be expected to work within Sefton Place the Diabetes Team provide a service to patients in Southport, Formby and the South Sefton area. The post holder will need to demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge base and promote excellence in nursing practice in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Experience of Leadership/Management is also essential for the role. It is essential that you possess excellent leadership and communication skills, ensuring that you take initiative and work autonomously to effectively the team.

As an active member of a team, the post holder is expected to deliver specialist nursing care, caseload manage and provide direct patient care, acting as an expert practitioner to optimise patient health, provide education for selfcare and complex management of patient pathway The Specialist Diabetes Nurse will be part of a multi-disciplinary team and adapt an integrated approach to care deliver and actively support integration and service transformation.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.