Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Working as an autonomous practitioner within a supportive multidisciplinary team, you will collaborate with consultants, specialist nurses, primary care colleagues and other healthcare professionals to deliver high-quality, evidence-based diabetes care. You will play a key role in shaping and developing services through quality improvement, audit, research and education, helping to improve outcomes for people living with diabetes across our local community.

This role is ideal for an enthusiastic and experienced nurse with specialist diabetes knowledge, strong leadership and communication skills, and a commitment to delivering outstanding patient-centred care.

Key Responsibilities - Provide specialist assessment, treatment and ongoing management for patients with complex diabetes.

If you are passionate about improving the lives of people with diabetes and are looking to further develop your specialist practice within a dynamic and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you.

To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer to the job description attached.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Further Training

Desirable: - Motivational interviewing / counselling course / training

Knowledge

Desirable: - Research awareness; - Audit methodologies

Qualifications

Experience

Desirable: - Multidisciplinary team working; - Caseload management; - Demonstrable experience of teaching / training healthcare professionals

Contractual Requirements

Essential: - Flexible approach to working; - Ability to work unsupervised.; - Full UK Driving Licence