Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Diabetes
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 275-0425-DCNS
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway Hospital
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/04/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 06/05/2025
Employer heading
Children's Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 6
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.
Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
Job overview
Children's Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist
Division: Women's, Children & Young People
Care Group: Paediatrics
Band: 6
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
We are recruiting for a Children's Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is expected to establish and maintain positive interpersonal relationships with other staff members characterised by trust, mutual respect, and open, honest communication, in line with the Trust BEST values.
These include:
- Members of the multidisciplinary team including the Medical teams, Allied Health Professionals, Play team, Managers, HR colleagues
- Broader teams outside of children’s services eg Maternity and gynaecology, Children’s ED, Theatres and recovery, Imaging, adult wards/services
- Children’s community nursing team, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults team, CAMHS, Children’s Social Care
- Children, young people and their families/carers
- Visitors and members of the public, volunteers, work experience student
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B – Bold
E – Every person counts
S – Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Children’s Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist is a post with a clear focus on improving the care of Children and Young People (CYP) and to support them and their families to manage their diabetes from diagnosis through the transition to adult services.
In conjunction with other members of the paediatric diabetes multi-disciplinary team, co-ordinate care for children and young people with diabetes and their families, assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of holistic care and providing specialist clinical advice to health care and others.
Uses specialist clinical judgement and autonomous decision-making concerning diabetes care and management of CYP. Autonomous decision making to include blood glucose data review and titration of insulin doses in accordance with local policy. The post holder will work in collaboration with medical and other multi-disciplinary staff to provide a comprehensive service focused on diabetic children and young people and participate in teaching programmes to parents/carers, children, young people and the direct staff working in nurseries and schools with this group of children.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RSCN or RN (children’s qualification) with current registration on the NMC register
- Willingness to undertake further diabetes courses (i.e. postgraduate diploma encompassing specialist diabetes component)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of NMC Code of conduct and application in practice
- Knowledge of national guidelines, safeguarding policies and procedures.
- Knowledge of pump usage, blood glucose control including Drug management, Carbohydrate counting and insulin adjustment and equipment for children and young people.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of NMC Code of conduct and application in practice
- Understanding of and commitment to Equal Opportunities and ability to implement in the job.
- Demonstrate experience working in a diabetes environment – hospital & community.
- Experience of teaching children/young people, parents and professionals about Type 1 and 2 Diabetes.
- Knowledge of pump usage, blood glucose control including Drug management, Carbohydrate counting and insulin adjustment and equipment for children and young people.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage a busy and varied workload and to make informed evidence based decisions under pressure
- Demonstrate a clear understanding and practical experience of effectively leading and implementing change.
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally, in writing and electronically.
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally, in writing and electronically
- Good understanding of patient experience standards.
- Ability to carry out duties using own initiative
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Haley Gooda
- Job title
- Lead Nurse Paediatric Diabetes
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01634825135
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