Job summary
- Main area
- Diabetes
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 270-TG020-ACS
- Employer
- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community Diabetes Centre Kettering General Hospital
- Town
- Kettering
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/04/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
This post offers an exciting opportunity to work with an established and successful multi-disciplinary team with a focus on providing the best possible care for every young person with diabetes. This forward thinking multi-disciplinary team is recognised for its good work around providing diabetes training to schools, embracing advanced technologies - virtual insulin pump clinics, transition clinics and supporting complex care at home.
Main duties of the job
The post requires the applicant to work autonomously and as part of a team, contributing to multi-disciplinary team decisions about the individuals personal plan of care. This team is dedicated to promoting and enabling care closer to home, working with acute services to accelerate hospital discharges and prevent hospital admissions by working across organisational and service boundaries.
You will be supported within this role by the lead paediatric diabetes specialist nurse alongside two other part time diabetes specialist nurses and dietitians and our three consultants.
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The applicant will be a trained paediatric nurse and have experience of working with children or young people in a professional capacity. Experience of working with people who have diabetes and /or a diabetes qualification would be desirable.
Being or becoming a registered non medical prescriber is essential to this role, where being able to interpret and act upon complex clinical and social information will regularly require a prescribing decision.
Skills in coaching and training are essential to managing a caseload of children and young people with newly diagnosed and established T1 & T2 diabetes, to facilitate self management and maintain psychological and physical well being.
An ability to produce, deliver and evaluate education packages to a range of audiences, including schools and peers in healthcare.
Excellent communication, negotiation and organisational skills are essential to compassionate care delivery and ability to work in close partnership with all members of the multidisciplinary team, to ensure the team deliver the highest quality of care.
Person specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Registered paediatric nurse
- Registered non medical prescriber
- experience of working with children & / or young people with diabetes
- experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in diabetes
- evidence of recent professional development
- experience of delivering services in the acute and community setting
Skill & ability
Essential criteria
- Evidence of excellent communication skills - written and verbal
- experience of delivering education and training to a range of audiences
- Awareness of own strengths & development needs
Desirable criteria
- experience of coaching and / or mentoring
- evidence of forming therapeutic relationships with children and young people
Behaviours and values
Essential criteria
- Ability to work flexibly and respond to change
- Evidence of being approachable and accessible
- Evidence of being highly self motivated and a good role model
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of being reliable and consistent in their approach
- evidence of an open and empathetic communication style
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Kathryn Exton
- Job title
- Senior Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07849 310926
- Additional information
office number 01536 49 2120
Contacting the team to discuss the post or visit the service is welcomed.
Lynsey Burgess Diabetes Pathway Lead
07500 886725
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