Paediatric Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist

at  Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Promote and set high standards of professional nursing care and maintain the delivery of quality care within the trust values, policies, protocols and guidelines. Provide professional nursing leadership to MDT within sphere of clinical responsibility. Lead and co-ordinate the service alongside the lead consultant and the other Band 7 nurses within the team. Take a leadership responsibility for a key service need.
Continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care. Act as a specialist clinical practitioner demonstrating developed clinical skills and knowledge. Support with the development of a service philosophy and models of care to ensure that all policies and procedures are implemented and to participate in the development of nursing practice. Monitor any impact on the patient experience.
Ensure that any patient quality and safety issues are addressed in a timely manner. This includes monitoring and evaluating standards of care by the clinical team and providing regular feedback to the specialty team on the standards of care. Implement evidence-based practice, identify, initiate, manage and evaluate changes that lead to improved and high standards of care and in particular any service changes following feedback from patients. Use information to inform Business Plans for the specialist area.
Demonstrate awareness of national and local guidelines relating to specialty (e.g. NICE guidelines) and influence care developments in accordance with these

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