Job summary
- Main area
- Diabetes
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 310-OPAC-6237596
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Brookfields Hospital
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Diabetes Care Technician
Band 4
Job overview
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Diabetes Care Technician to join our Cambridge Team. If you have compassion, empathy with the ability to work automatously this is the opportunity for you.
You will be part of a multidisciplinary team and work under the supervision and guidance of The Diabetes Specialist Nurses (DSN). Your primary responsibilities will include supporting insulin treatment, gathering and providing feedback on Blood Glucose Levels, training patients on medication, insulins, and equipment, downloading patient BGLs and information, setting up CGMs for DSNs to review, participating in DESMOND/Patient T2DM Education, and collecting initial information calls to provide comprehensive information to DSNs for informed triage. DCT for the Cambridge Team will be require to carry out home visits at the request of the DSN. Peterborough DCT will be expected to support the Consultant clinics running from the Healthy Living Centre.
The role includes promoting a better understanding of Diabetes for patients, their families and carers, and other agencies involved with the patient through education, support and counselling.
Main duties of the job
To work as part of a team, under the supervision and guidance of the Diabetes Specialist Nurses, in the support and care of people with diabetes, in a primary care, community and domiciliary setting.
To work to empower people with diabetes to manage their own condition more
effectively and to ensure that the service meets the needs of all client groups.
To understand and support the needs of carers and liaise with other relevant agencies. To work with members of the multidisciplinary team as and when appropriate. To manage own caseload of patients who require ongoing management and support with complex diabetes needs.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- Work within own sphere of responsibilities and competencies.
Undertake agreed clinical activities with patients under the guidance of the Diabetes Specialist Nurse. - To prioritise and maintain own patient caseload and carry out delegated health care tasks.
- To undertake assessments on patients with Type 1 and 2 diabetes.
Initiate treatment, working with agreed protocols and review as required. - Record all findings in the clinical records and patient notes according to Trust policy.
- Report and document any changes and variations in the patient’s physiological , psychological or social status.
- To provide education and demonstrate the use of insulin pen devices, blood glucose monitoring equipment and subcutaneous injections.
- Deliver training/education to the MDT, students and other agencies.
- Evaluate learning and revise training according to feedback.
- Empower patients to manage their diabetes more effectively by delivering education, health promotion and the demonstration of any relevant equipment.
- Be a resource for service users to access and use community services and facilities.
- Set up and facilitate blood glucose technique/monitoring clinics with patients, including lifestyle and diet advice for patients and other health care workers.
- Resource and display relevant health promotion materials/leaflets.
Book rooms, arrange invitations, and arrange speakers for group training sessions. - Contribute to the planning, monitoring and review of service delivery by attending team briefings and any other relevant meetings.
- Be responsible for carrying out all administrative/clerical tasks required to ensure accurate and risk managed records.
- Take and record messages clearly, to action if appropriate or pass on to the relevant professional.
- Provide statistical returns, records and reports as requested and extract data for audit purposes as required.
- Maintain stock of equipment and materials and responsible for maintaining quality control and calibration of medical instruments and/or equipment used by this service.
- Participate and contribute to team meetings, case conferences and any other meetings relevant to the post.
Person specification
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people/vulnerable adults
Essential criteria
- Appreciates the significance of safeguarding and interprets this accurately for all individual young people/vulnerable adults, whatever their life circumstances
Self awareness
Essential criteria
- Shows a realistic appreciation of the challenges of working with young people/vulnerable adults
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Good overall level of education
- Evidence of recent training/ development in diabetes management and diploma in Diabetes Care
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to undertake a course to be an educator for structured patient education
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a nursing environment with patients with diabetes, in a community setting
- Experience of enabling clients/ patients to develop independence
- Experience of demonstrating/ teaching new skills to clients/ patients
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a community setting
- Experience of working in health promotion
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients/clients, carers and other professionals
- To be able to help set up and run group education sessions
- Working effectively within a team and able to work alone in the community setting
- Good interpersonal skills
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the NHS involvement service development
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel across the county, sometimes at short notice
- Flexibility. This role may involve some flexibility of working hours
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
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
- Jacky Eastwell
- Job title
- Diabetes Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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