Job summary
- Main area
- Diabetes
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-HCS-523
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Heart of Hounslow Centre for Health
- Town
- Hounslow
- Salary
- £56,388 - £62,785 pro rata per annum including HCAS (outer)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/09/2024 11:00
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Practice Diabetes Specialist Nurse
Band 8a
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From the autumn, HRCH community services for Hounslow will be provided by West London NHS Trust. HRCH will continue to provide community services in the borough of Richmond.
HRCH is a great place to work, and we're committed to staff development, so if you're interested in joining our team, we encourage you to apply.
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Job overview
ADVANCED CLINICAL PRACTICE DIABETES SPECIALIST NURSE - BAND 8A
Are you looking for a rewarding new opportunity as an Advanced Clinical Practice Diabetes Specialist Nurse (DSN)?
We have an exciting opening for an experienced and motivated candidate to join our Hounslow Community Diabetes Service (HCDS) based at Heart of Hounslow Centre for Health.
This is a clinical leadership role in the team providing scope for innovative work with Primary Care Partners, Acute Providers and Community Nursing development. Within the team, supporting the development of the DSN role including with prescribing.
Why work for our team?
Our team consists of DSNs and Diabetes Specialist Dietitians (DSD), with support from a Consultant Diabetologist.
The service also employs 3 PCN DSDs who each work 1 day in the HCDS.
The DSDs deliver the X-PERT education program which has won national awards for patient outcomes in the last three years.
There are opportunities for flexible working as you will be provided with the tools to deliver virtual consultations, but you will also be expected to travel around the Hounslow Borough visiting GP practices as required.
Support will be provided by the HCDS Manager and the Divisional Manager for Planned Care.
Further opportunities for training and personal development will also be available for this role.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
As part of our team, your role will:
· Lead the DSN service supporting best practice in Type 2 Diabetes in the community.
· Work closely with patients, other specialists including the Consultant DSN employed by NWL ICB, Primary Care colleagues, and Community Teams to improve the health outcomes of people with Type 2 Diabetes.
· Lead and develop the partnership working with Primary Care and the Acute Hospital to maximise patient outcomes.
· Provide support to the Consultant DSN in providing GP training in Diabetes on PITstop courses.
· Assist with supporting diabetes-related projects within the trust such as insulin education for Health Care Support workers; representation at PCN level supporting Fuller Report working groups to improve health inequalities.
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Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m.
The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current registration as registered nurse
- Educated to Masters’ degree level in relevant speciality
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner Qualification
- Evidence of post registration development in autonomous practice/clinical skills (e.g Masters/ACP Masters/PG Cert/PGradDip)
- Completion of relevant extended role scope competencies
- Supervision/Coaching/Mentoring
Desirable criteria
- Non-medical prescribing qualification &/or evidence of qualification in prescribing specialist equipment, care, therapies, lifestyle advice and care
- Teaching qualification (e.g. ENB998 or equivalent)
- Leadership and management qualification or equivalent
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of a senior professional role in relevant clinical speciality with highly specialised knowledge relevant to the position.
- Range of assessment methods as appropriate (e.g. of history-taking; holistic assessment; identifying risk factors; mental health assessments; requesting, undertaking and/or interpreting diagnostic tests; and conducting health needs assessments).
- Knowledge of Quality Improvement methodologies and experience of successful delivery in practice
- Working knowledge of safety and governance frameworks and standards (including confidentiality/freedom of information/Caldicott regulations/CQC essential standards)
- Clinical role model/advocate/educator/coach for care delivery and development
- Leading new clinical practice and service redesign solutions
- Experience in undertaking research projects in implementing EBP in relevant clinical speciality
- Critically appraising and synthesising the outcome of relevant research, evaluation and audit, using the results to underpin own practice and to inform that of others.
- Continually developing practice in response to changing population health needs and future developments in national guidance relevant to the clinical speciality
- Implementing governance systems
- Evaluation and audit of own and others’ clinical practice
- Complex risk management
- Impact of advanced clinical practice on service function and effectiveness, and quality (i.e. outcomes of care, experience and safety)
- Selecting and applying valid, reliable audit methods, then acting on the findings
- Supporting people in making decisions, planning care or seeking to make positive changes
Desirable criteria
- Advocating for and contributing to a culture of organisational learning
- Experience of co-producing and implementing complex change in a clinical setting
- Collaborative working with a range of multi-agency and interprofessional resources
- Building capacity and capability through work based and interprofessional learning
- Engaging in horizon scanning for future developments (e.g. impacts of genomics, new treatments and changing social challenges)
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, to enable communication with a wide range of stakeholders and for clinical purposes, negotiation, leadership and influence. This includes managing highly complex communications where there may be barriers to understanding.
- Role modelling the values of HRCH, (Care, Respect, Communication)
- Using professional judgement to know when to seek help
- Highly developed analytical skills to diagnose problems and formulate solutions
- Evidence of practise innovation and quality improvement
- Compliance with code of professional conduct
- Skills to train and update staff on service developments as required.
- Highly developed problem-solving skills including the ability to deescalate difficult situations and achieve resolution
- Critical reflection on own practice, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and openness to change
- Self-motivated and able to prioritise within a large and varied workload
- Ability to manage resources; this includes involvement in workforce planning and staff budgeting.
- Ability to identify and optimise learning opportunities identifying gaps in evidence base and its application in practice
- Ability to work as part of a team and ability to command respect of the multi-disciplinary team
- Self-motivated, self-starter, able to organise a large and varied work programme including identifying own development needs
- Flexible and adaptable at work in order to meet competing priorities
- Able to respond and prioritise and risk manage highly complex and unpredictable health presentations and events to ensure effective interventions are actioned
Desirable criteria
- Ability to critically reflect, lead and influence system-wide change
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Innovative and forward thinking
- Confident in positive risk taking
- Able to problem solve and support other team members
- Reliable, empathetic, approachable, understanding, non-judgemental and tolerant
- Positive attitude to change and prepared to work flexibly to meet the needs of people and the service
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
- Sian Knight
- Job title
- Hounslow Community Diabetes Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07909 001 472
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