Diabetes Specialist Nurse

The Diabetes Times


Date: 7 hours ago
City: Peterborough
Contract type: Full time
Job Summary

To work in conjunction with the Multidisciplinary Team and in line with Local and National Targets to provide specialist evidence based nursing advise to support and facilitate high quality, individualised care to patients/clients and relatives/ carers without supervision

This will involve dealing with complex situations and having to take appropriate action in a variety of settings.

Provide expert advice and education for Healthcare professionals involved in the care of people with diabetes and their carers.

Acting as a resource for general practice and working to reduce admissions, improve diabetes outcomes and quality of life for people with diabetes.

To provide advanced clinical practice in the field of diabetes care and ensure the provision of a quality patient focused diabetes service in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

DSN to be based at the Healthy Living Centre in Peterborough and preferably have experience in managing patients with type 1 diabetes including Young people and those who are using insulin pumps

We will need T1 / Pump and possibly also Young Persons experience.

Main duties of the job

Work collaboratively with the team and professional leads to support professional and practice developments including CPFT clinical supervision framework.

Work autonomously to assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care, providing specialist advice and actively seeking evidence based practice which improves the quality of care and meets the needs of patients. A holistic approach to caring should be planned that will include the appropriate level of physiological; pathological; spiritual, socio-economical and cultural aspects which influence the care of clients within your specific speciality.

  • To manage a significant caseload of patients with complex diabetes, managing individual programmes of care working with patients for self management of their diabetes.
  • Provide community nurse led clinics within general practice.
  • Work within the MDT diabetes team supporting general practice within virtual review clinics.
  • Work proactively to prevent admission to secondary care
  • Run clinics for patients on insulin pumps in conjunction with the consultant
  • To provide education for patients with type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes

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