Diabetic Specialist Nurse
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Job summary
The aim of this role is to increase and develop the provision of community and inpatient diabetes support and staff training into North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (NCIC). The post holder will be an integral member of the Diabetes Service specialist team, providing care, treatment and education to diabetes patients and their families. This will involve working closely with the community network of health care professionals to deliver an integrated package of care between hospital and primary care.
The post holder will work be based in Whitehaven.
Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
Main duties of the job
The Diabetes Service represents an integration of the entire multidisciplinary specialist team with responsibility for the quality of all diabetes services in Cumbria. We aim to improve the quality of diabetes care by delivering patient pathways with structured education programmes to support self-management, by supporting and training of primary care teams and providing excellent specialist diabetes clinical services in both in and out-patient settings.
A key aim of The Diabetes Service is to facilitate and encourage self-management by people with diabetes. Structured patient education programmes (DAFNE and DESMOND) are embedded in our pathways of care and training has been delivered to both primary care and specialist staff to undertake holistic care planning.
We provide speciality services including pregnancy, young person/ transition service and an insulin pump service. A Cumbria wide retinal screening service operates throughout Cumbria at a variety of locations.
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full-time
Salary
£33,706 - £40,588 a year per annum
Closing date
21/02/2023