Job Title: Diabetes Nurse Specialist Trainee
Agency: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Location: London, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 38,682 – 46,580 £ / Year

Job Summary

We are looking for 2 experienced band 5/6 Nurses to join our Diabetes and Endocrine team, to provide excellent inpatient and outpatient diabetes care across the site.

One is permanent and the other is a 10-month secondment.

The post holder will provide some existing clinical knowledge, both in inpatient and outpatient care, and will join a dynamic team based at WMUH and Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. This role is very much an educational and development post for the applicant.

The Diabetes Nurse Specialist provides expertise in all aspects of diabetes care provision. This would involve delivering excellent diabetes care to individuals and patient groups as a component of the patients’ care management, in collaboration with the wider multi-professional healthcare team, as well as being a provider of excellent nurse teaching and ward education.

Main duties of the job

• Working as an integral member of the diabetes team across Chelsea & Westminster and West Middlesex University Hospital
• Active supervised participation in nurse-led/ multidisciplinary clinics, which would include: Complicated cases, initiating and titrating new therapies (OHAs and insulin). Insulin pumps (working closely with our pump co-ordinator) as well as initiating pump therapy with support, Adolescent transition clinics (including pump clinic), Pre-conception care, Ante-natal care, CGMS clinics, and routine follow-up
• Nurse-led Virtual – email/ telephone clinics, including the safe logging of information in line with Trust guidelines
• Providing skilled assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of specialist diabetes care within defined guidelines and protocols under supervision
• Provide advanced diabetes specialist nursing care to patients who have diabetes throughout the Trust, as well as offering structured education to patients
• Ordering, performing, and interpreting relevant tests and investigations
• Providing expert diabetes advice and guidance to nurses & other disciplines, and teaching on nurse induction and mandatory update programmes under supervision
• Providing specialist training and education to our own and other professions
• Setting and monitoring standards of diabetes care and treatment
• Participating in audit and research activity
• Disseminating good practice

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