Job Description

Are you a registered nurse who is passionate about diabetes, capable of working autonomously and interested in further developing your knowledge, skills and competencies towards Band 7 level? We'd love you to come and join us in the diabetes team!



We are looking for a highly experienced Band 5 or Band 6 nurse to join the multidisciplinary diabetes team to support outpatient diabetes services initially to be trained to lead the diabetic foot clinic.



Based in the Diabetes Education Centre, it is a permanent post and is 20 hours per week, to include Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for diabetes foot clinic cover.



Ensure evidence-based practice and the highest standard of personalised clinical nursing care is delivered to all patients with diabetes and their families attending CRH outpatient areas.



To work autonomously within the multi-disciplinary diabetes foot clinic team to ensure the provision of safe, effective and optimal diabetes care.



Provide specialist nursing care and advice to a specific patient group, mindful of cost-effective use of resources and contribute to the development of the speciality service.



Manage a defined caseload, carrying responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care.



Exercise judgement and autonomous decision making daily in assessing wide ranging and complex patients' problems, agreeing solutions, ensuring and promoting options to enable the delivery of optimum patient care, advocating for patients where appropriate and advising the multi-disciplinary team.



Provide expert advice on the care of people with complex diabetes or unusual regimens. Work within own competencies and scope of practice to adjust diabetes therapies as required.



Provide face to face and telephone support and information for both new and existing patients, their carers and health care professionals, including the teaching and self-management of insulin therapy and diabetes technologies.

Our vision :

Exceptional patient care provided by exceptional people.

Our mission :

To bring our people communities and partners together - providing patient care we can all be proud of., We all play a part in achieving this, by living up to the values we promise to our patients and each other. As members of staff we will always be guided by our Proud to CARE values:



COMPASSION

AMBITION

RESPECT

ENCOURAGEMENT



Leading the Chesterfield Way



The Diabetes Specialist Nurse Development Post is a vital role within our organisation. Leading the Chesterfield Way supports the Trust's priorities and ambitions - and sets out the behaviours and characteristics that leaders are expected to adopt and that all staff can role model, to make the Trust an even better place to work; and to support the delivery of exceptional patient care. It provides a framework for leadership and supports individual progression through appraisal, career progression and personal development.



For further information regarding this vacancy please see the and Person Specification attached