Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Employer: Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital

Town: Norwich

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 27/03/2025 23:59

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NHS AfC: Band 6

At NNUH it is our privilege to provide healthcare to over one million people across Norfolk and surrounding areas. Our vision is to provide the best care for every patient, and if this inspires you and you share our values, we really want you to join our team.

NNUH is currently the busiest Trauma Unit in the East of England caring for almost 850 trauma patients annually many with complex care needs. We are enhancing our urgent and emergency care specialist services for patients with significant injuries as a result of trauma and have an ambition to become a Major Trauma Centre.

Our values support our vision and guide the behaviour of everything we do, these are:

• People-focused: We look after the needs of our patients, carers and colleagues, to provide a safe and caring experience for all.
• Respect: We act with care, compassion and kindness and value others diverse needs.
• Integrity: We take an honest, open and ethical approach to everything we do.
• Dedication: We work as one team and support each other to maintain the highest professional standards.
• Excellence: We continuously learn and improve to achieve the best outcomes for our patients and our hospital.

We want all our staff to achieve a balance between work and personal life and understand how important flexible working can be. We welcome applications on a full or part time basis, various shift patterns and hybrid working, where roles allow.

At the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH), we know the benefits diversity can bring to our organisation such as creativity, innovation and compassion. All of which have a direct impact towards our staff and patient experience. We are committed to being a Hospital for All being equitable and inclusive, and a place where all feel a sense of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage and welcome applications from candidates who are underrepresented in NNUHs workforce. These include people from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, people with diverse abilities and people within the LGBT+ community.

Job Overview

We have an exciting opportunity to join a team of dedicated Diabetes Specialist Nurses in the Elsie Bertram Diabetes Centre (EBDC), covering 3 teams within the trust.

At the EBDC, we have a firmly established multi-professional approach to care delivery with both Consultant and Specialist Nurses delivering clinics. We aim to educate and inform patients, their families, and carers for them to make choices about their individual health care needs and support them with self-management of their diabetes.

Main duties of the job

As a Diabetes Specialist Nurse, you will be involved in, following appropriate training, covering inpatient services, outpatient services and community clinics, including our specialist outreach clinics in antenatal and young adult services. A flexible approach will be welcomed and may involve some later clinic cover and weekends.

As part of your role, you will help to provide patient education on an individual basis, as well as part of a group setting, initiate insulin/GLP-1 therapy and latest technology used in diabetes care such as insulin pumps and CGM for people who need them. The post will involve ongoing review and support of our patients, their carers and/or family members with management of their diabetes in our specialist nurse-led and multidisciplinary clinics. There will also be opportunities to provide education for staff members of the wider MDT within the Trust.

We are very happy to meet any candidates informally to discuss the role further and arrange an informal visit to the centre, prior to interview, if requested.

Working for our organisation

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
• Multi Faith prayer room
• Discounted gym memberships
• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
• Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
• Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
• On-site Nursery
• On-site cafes offering staff discounts
• Support in career development
• Flexible staff bank
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Provide education and ongoing review/support to patients and/or their carers on self-management of their diabetes and their medication.
• Be involved in helping support patients with the latest technology available in diabetes management, such as insulin pump therapy, CGM and Hybrid-closed loops.
• Opportunity to work across all teams in the specialty, including inpatient, outpatient and in the community with an opportunity to work towards becoming a non-medical prescriber in future.
• Implement Trust and Directorate evidence-based procedures, policies, protocols and guidelines.
• Contribute to local policy making within the agreed Trust strategy.
• Act as an ambassador for the Trust in professional and trust business settings.
• Develop policies and procedures for nursing practice for patients with diabetes.
• To belong to diabetes interest groups at local and national levels, undertake presentations and disseminate information gained to unit staff.
• Manage own caseload of patients.
• Work in accordance with Trust and Directorate Diabetes Management guidelines and help to develop these where necessary.
• With the Senior Diabetes Nurse assess the training needs of nursing staff within the team and ensure these needs are met.
• To provide ongoing advice, information and emotional support to clients with diabetes and their relatives and carers.
• To assess, plan, deliver and evaluate educational needs and programmes for clients and their relatives/carers.
• Initiate treatment for diabetes for those patients with poor glycaemic control under the guidance of the medical team, or nurse prescriber.
• Give dose adjustment/titration advice for patients to be able to continue self-management, or to other prescribing healthcare staff.
• Ensuring appropriate follow up for all diabetes patients.
• Provide telephone support to patients/relatives/carers and other health care professionals including dose adjustment, sick day rules and hypo advice.
• Initiate referrals to other health care professionals, e.g. podiatrist, dietician and community nursing teams.
• To reduce perioperative delays in diabetes management.
• Provide expert opinion/advice to other healthcare professionals within the Trust, either as part of individual patient review or wider Trust staff education.
• Participation in nurse led clinics, both face-to-face and virtual clinics.
• To be able to use all current and new technology to help with your clinical assessment of a patient.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse on the appropriate part of the NMC register.

Experience

• Significant experience at Band 5.
• Some experience in a position relevant to the speciality.

Skills

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Desirable criteria

• Teaching experience.

Attitude, aptitude

• Effective role model, demonstrating NNUHs PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence.

The Job Description, which includes a Person Specification, provides a full outline of responsibilities and requirements for this role. Please use your supporting statement to demonstrate how you meet the person specification.

Visa and Immigration

If you are wishing to apply for this role and would require sponsorship (this includes if you are already in a sponsored post and looking to change employer), you can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this post by assessing your circumstances against criteria specified on the gov.uk website https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/your-job.

Travelling to work

Staff parking is available onsite; however, this is limited during core working hours. We have more capacity in the evening and at weekends and can usually provide spaces during those hours.

The NNUH is served by a number of public buses, and we offer generously discounted monthly passes with First Bus & Konect.

The Costessey Park and Ride runs regularly each day from 06:30 (from P&R) to 20:45 (from NNUH) and this service is free for NHS staff. There is a regular Thickthorn P&R service as well which is free. Applications to the Travel Office are required for this service. We also have a discounted service from the airport P&R if you purchase a bundle. Please see Konect website for further details.

The NNUH host multiple bicycle racks and a salary sacrifice scheme. We also benefit from a Beryl station onsite.

DBS

If this post involves working with children or adults the application form will ask for information regarding previous convictions as you will be required to undertake a Criminal Record and Barring Check known as a DBS check.

If you are a new employee or registering with the Staff Bank you will need to meet the cost of this unless your salary is less than point 9 of Afc.

NHS Service

Should you be appointed to the post we will need to establish any previous NHS service via the ESR IAT and we will accept the submission of your application as your agreement to this.

UK Registration

You will need to have current UK professional registration where this is a requirement of the role.

Application

Following candidate feedback and to reduce our dependency on paper, all our communication with you regarding your application will be by email so could you please check your e-mails (and Spam) regularly.

We value equality in our team and recruit from all sections of the community. We recognise there is a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and if you meet the minimum criteria detailed in the person specification and have a disability, you may wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme by indicating this in the relevant section on your application.

We look forward to receiving your application and if you do not hear within the next four weeks this will usually mean that you have not been short-listed. However, if you wish to confirm this please contact the person indicated on the advert.

Flexibility

Whilst every effort will be made to recruit to the post as it is advertised, there may be occasions where we consider alternative working patterns, such as part time working, or contract types, such as secondments, depending on circumstances. Should you wish to work in a different working pattern to that stated in our advertisement, please indicate this in the supporting statement to your application.

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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.