Specialist Nurse Diabetes -Development position, Band 5

at  Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an energetic, fervent and interested in delivering excellent care for patients with Diabetes and Endocrinology. Then come and join our friendly, supportive, dynamic team at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. As a team we put patients and their families at the heart of everything we deliver and the Band 5 Specialist Diabetes Nurse Development role will be an exciting opportunity to excel your carrier to a Band 6 DSN.
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers a countywide Diabetes and Endocrinology service in a variety of clinic-based locations. We are looking for a compassionate Nurses to join our team to help deliver high standard of care and work well within a multidisciplinary team.
You will be working with Band 6/7 diabetes specialist nurses who will be supporting you in achieving the competencies. You should also be able to evidence consistently developing your knowledge in order to provide patients with an advanced treatment options.
You should communicate effectively and actively participate in Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings to aid patient care, joint treatment sessions, case conferences and specialist interest group meetings.
To establish a timely completion of diabetes specialist skills and competencies in a timely manner during your agreed development period. This will help to encourage patient self-managing, maximize rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of medication, diabetes as a life-long diagnosis, long term management of their condition, blood glucose & possible complications.
Support to manage caseload of countywide outpatients through clinic, including the administrative activities including dictating letters, organizing patient’s follow-ups. Also, to use clinical reasoning skills and techniques to assess, diagnose, plan and offer a range of treatment options; deliver, evaluate and amend the treatment plan, to make recommendations for appropriate and timely management in an outpatient and inpatient setting. Supporting admission to and discharge/transfer from hospital.
Work closely with the specialist Nurses and Lead nurse to ensure the operational delivery of high-quality care, clinical safety & effective clinical governance, ensuring appropriate cross county cover for diabetes nursing care within given resources. Also, to adhere to all Trust policies and procedures and professional code of conduct.
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides acute hospital services mainly from two large district general hospitals, Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. We remain the major provider of secondary care services in the area and analysis shows that for Gloucestershire we are the leading acute healthcare provider by a significant margin.

Our vision is ‘Best Care For Everyone’ and Our People & Organisational Development Strategy will ensure we have the right number of staff with the required skills to be successful, through effective recruitment, retention, education, recognition & reward. We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:

• Caring
• Listening
• Excelling

Gloucestershire is one of muti-cultural county and we believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to advance the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population. We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity.
Benefits include; holiday entitlement as per NHS service, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, Occupational health services and much more.
Brief description is mentioned above. For detailed job description and main responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description & Personal Specification document

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