Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Reviewing patients with diabetes and initiating and managing their medications to improve their quality of life and try to achieve their agreed HbA1c targets.

Work with the existing practice teams to also ensure their patients with diabetes have their other risk factors managed and 9 key care processes achieved.

There may be times when more complex patients need to be discussed within a Muti-Disciplinary Team setting and when this occasionally needs to occur, you:

a) Consult with patients, their family, and the multi-professional team to undertake assessments of patient need and devise and evaluate complex care plans;

b) Evaluate and analyse clinical problems using their clinical knowledge, seeking out and applying relevant evidence, enhanced techniques, interventions, and equipment to make clinical decisions;

c) Delivers enhanced clinical care in the context of continual change, challenging environments, different models of care delivery, innovation and rapidly evolving technologies using analysis and their underpinning knowledge to manage complex interventions;

d) Teach and advise patients and their families on how to manage their condition

e) Participate in clinical audits and research projects where required and implements changes as required, including the development, and updating of practice protocols / guidelines and procedures locally;

f) Work within NICE guidelines and Northants ICB formulary

g) Recognise boundaries of their practice and know when and to whom patients should be referred;

h) Demonstrate initiative and are creative in finding solutions to problems;

i) Hold joint responsibility for team performance and service delivery.

As a specialist nurse there may be a need for key wider responsibilities within the PCN, for example to:

a) Facilitate and support the development and delivery of innovative training and education to staff, to improve competence and confidence, in line with best practice and guidance related to area of expertise.

b) Participate in and/or lead formal training events promoting best practice in area of expertise.

c) Provide professional and clinical leadership and mentorship, acting as a clinical role model on the delivery of evidence-based practice.

d) Advise and support on the development and delivery of work streams relating to Diabetes as part of the PCNs strategy.

e) To improve identification, assessment, ongoing support for patients and their family carers.

Job responsibilities

Job Description

Job responsibilities

Reviewing patients with diabetes and initiating and managing their medications to improve their quality of life and try to achieve their agreed HbA1c targets.

Work with the existing practice teams to also ensure their patients with diabetes have their other risk factors managed and 9 key care processes achieved.

There may be times when more complex patients need to be discussed within a Muti-Disciplinary Team setting and when this occasionally needs to occur, you:

a) Consult with patients, their family, and the multi-professional team to undertake assessments of patient need and devise and evaluate complex care plans;

b) Evaluate and analyse clinical problems using their clinical knowledge, seeking out and applying relevant evidence, enhanced techniques, interventions, and equipment to make clinical decisions;

c) Delivers enhanced clinical care in the context of continual change, challenging environments, different models of care delivery, innovation and rapidly evolving technologies using analysis and their underpinning knowledge to manage complex interventions;

d) Teach and advise patients and their families on how to manage their condition

e) Participate in clinical audits and research projects where required and implements changes as required, including the development, and updating of practice protocols / guidelines and procedures locally;

f) Work within NICE guidelines and Northants ICB formulary

g) Recognise boundaries of their practice and know when and to whom patients should be referred;

h) Demonstrate initiative and are creative in finding solutions to problems;

i) Hold joint responsibility for team performance and service delivery.

As a specialist nurse there may be a need for key wider responsibilities within the PCN, for example to:

a) Facilitate and support the development and delivery of innovative training and education to staff, to improve competence and confidence, in line with best practice and guidance related to area of expertise.

b) Participate in and/or lead formal training events promoting best practice in area of expertise.

c) Provide professional and clinical leadership and mentorship, acting as a clinical role model on the delivery of evidence-based practice.

d) Advise and support on the development and delivery of work streams relating to Diabetes as part of the PCNs strategy.

e) To improve identification, assessment, ongoing support for patients and their family carers.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Person Specification
• Essential
• Able to work in different environments, with different Primary Health Care Teams
• Experienced in the management of diabetic patients and the initiation of treatment in newly diagnosed diabetic patients.
• Degree in nursing
• Registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council;
• Working towards level 7 qualification, have a Masters degree relevant to Diabetes, or have 3+ years experience working as a diabetic nurse

Qualifications

Essential

• - Degree in nursing
• - Registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council
• - Working towards level 7 qualification, have a Masters degree relevant to Diabetes, or have 3+ years experience working as a diabetic nurse

Experience

Essential

• Person Specification
• Essential
• Able to work in different environments, with different Primary Health Care Teams
• Experienced in the management of diabetic patients and the initiation of treatment in newly diagnosed diabetic patients.
• Degree in nursing
• Registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council;
• Working towards level 7 qualification, have a Masters degree relevant to Diabetes, or have 3+ years experience working as a diabetic nurse

Qualifications

Essential

• - Degree in nursing
• - Registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council
• - Working towards level 7 qualification, have a Masters degree relevant to Diabetes, or have 3+ years experience working as a diabetic nurse

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

WOODVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE

Address

26 Holmecross Road

Northampton

NN3 8AW

Employer's website

https://www.woodviewmedicalcentre.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)