Endocrine Specialist Nurse

at  Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

The Endocrine Nurse Specialist will work as a senior member of the Diabetes and Endocrine Multi-Disciplinary Team providing endocrinology nursing expertise to patients and health care professionals at MWL Trust. They will be seen as a clinical expert in the area of endocrinology and play an integral role in the service development and quality initiatives relating to the endocrine service.
They will act as an autonomous practitioner providing expert nurse led care to patients and will be expected to advise secondary and primary care clinician’s in all areas of endocrinology including complex endocrine patients. They will maintain links across organisational boundaries, acting as a source of specialist knowledge working within agreed protocols and guidelines.
Key Duties (Clinical)
Autonomously, assess triage and diagnosis endocrine conditions and review those with longstanding endocrine conditions, including complex patients as outpatients and inpatients, recommending or initiating appropriate treatment within agreed protocols and guidelines.
Independently order, undertake, interpret and act upon diagnostic tests and results for endocrinology patients.

Be proficient in venepuncture and cannulation.

• Manage, lead and report on key areas within the endocrine service maintaining regular audit and updates on service development at appropriate Governance Meetings and relevant reporting bodies or appropriate agencies as needed.

Assess, plan, co-ordinate, implement and evaluate evidence-based endocrinology care in conjunction with relevant health care professionals.
Liaise and support primary and secondary care clinicians in relation to management of endocrine clinical care and management.
Develop, undertake and manage clinical telephone support clinics and the endocrine support line, patient education sessions relating to endocrine conditions and medication titration.
Participate in nurse led clinics using relevant protocols whilst exercising judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care.
Be proficient in assessing and prioritising internal and external referrals for endocrine condition
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Please refer the Job description for details