Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Permanent Do you have a passion for Diabetes and would like to work as part of an Integrated Diabetes Service? If the answer is yes, then we have an exciting opportunity to bring your skills and expertise to help improve Diabetes Management for all people living in the Tameside and Glossop area. Band 7 30 hours Permanent Do you have a passion for Diabetes and would like to work as part of an Integrated Diabetes Service? If the answer is yes, then we have an exciting opportunity to bring your skills and expertise to help improve Diabetes Management for all people living in the Tameside and Glossop area. Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust are looking for a self motivated and dynamic Band 7 Diabetes Specialist Nurse with extensive post registration experience to join the Integrated Diabetes Service. Applicants must be able to demonstrate experience of managing Diabetes as a primary condition with a sound underpinning clinical knowledge of Diabetes management and related therapies. The service covers both Acute and Primary sites and involves working in a variety of settings affording the successful candidate opportunities to work with a range of patient groups. You will work as an autonomous practitioner providing a high quality, efficient and effective clinical service, delivering high standard of assessment, diagnosis, treatment and highly specialist expert advice to patients with Diabetes and their carers. * To lead, develop, contribute to and influence strategies within host Trust, regionally and nationally to enable partnership development across Diabetes services. * Contributes to the provision of specialist nursing for Diabetes patients, practicing within the multi-disciplinary team. * Work collaboratively with partner Clinical Commissioning Groups (Integrated Care Services) to deliver education, training and raising awareness to General Practitioners, Acute and Primary Care personnel. * Improve the quality of care for patients and manage their own patient caseload with consultant supervision. * Responsible for providing advice, education and support to Diabetes patients, their carers and other health care professionals. * Deliver Integrated hospital / community specialist advice and support to patients, carers and other professionals about Diabetes. * To work autonomously in the assessment and development of clinical management plans and communicate recommendations verbally and in writing to Consultants, GPs, and other health professionals. * In collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues within TGICFT and the community to take specific responsibility for the development of pathways of care and service redesign. * To lead the development of nurse led treatment and follow up clinics for patients that require active follow up. Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners. We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate: * Compassion * Accountability * Respect * Excellence We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve 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. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+& Disabled people. Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more. J-18808-Ljbffr