Job summary
- Main area
- Diabetes Specialist Nurse
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term/Secondment until January 2025 and June 2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 432-HR97-24
- Employer
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Colchester Hospital
- Town
- Colchester
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 Starting salary from £35,392 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Diabetes Inpatient Specialist Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education and training.
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Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of the ESNEFT’s core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, Procedures and in its Practices, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole. The EDI Agenda reflects the Trust values such as Optimistic, Appreciative and Kind. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, People Plan, People Promise and a Model Employer intrinsic in the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Agenda, we consistently strive to improve, to take the learning into Action for a better ESNEFT.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Registered Nurse to join our Medicine division. You will be supporting the delivery of 7 day working for inpatient Diabetes Nurse provision at Colchester Hospital.
The diabetes team work 7 days per week (including weekends and bank holidays) to provide expert diabetes nursing care to inpatients. We have a close working relationship with our community based MDT, supporting GP’s and district nurses. The inpatient diabetes nurse will need to have a working knowledge of the acute management of diabetes in all specialist areas involved.
We are looking for a motivated, forward thinking individual to join our team. If you are passionate about delivering high- quality, seamless care and have proven leadership and clinical skills then this could be the role for you.
Please note , there are two positions available:
- Full time until January 2025
- Full time until June 2025
Internal candidates will be offered a secondment position only.
Main duties of the job
You will be based within the in-patient setting and have a close working relationships with our out-patient and community based nursing team colleagues.
We offer secondary care services to patients with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes as well as covering specialist areas of Diabetes in pregnancy, Diabetes related renal disease and also have a substantial amount of patients using insulin pump therapy.
You will therefore need to have a working knowledge of the acute management of diabetes in all the specialist areas involved.
Working for our organisation
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Proven post registration experience
- • Proven experience at Band 5
- • Experience of developing, training and education in clinical practice
- • Experience in multidisciplinary working
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of implementing Service Improvement
- • Evidence of audit experience
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of academic pathway towards a degree
- • Demonstration of personal and professional development
Desirable criteria
- • A recognised Diabetes Course
- • Preparing for mentorship course
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Able to demonstrate a wide knowledge of current trends in nursing and application to practice
Desirable criteria
- • Demonstrate an understanding of clinical; effectiveness
- • Experience in working with patients with diabetes and being involved in diabetes related treatment decisions
Personal Skills
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of excellent organisational skills
- • Good verbal and written skills
- • Advanced problem solving skills
- • Self motivating and able to work unsupervised
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Davis
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
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