Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.
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Key details
Location
SiteTrustwide (GRH/CGH)TownGloucestershirePostcodeGL1 3NNMajor / Minor RegionGloucestershire
Contract type & working pattern
ContractPermanentHoursPart time - 30 hours per week (Working in countywide sites)
Salary
Salary£37,338 - £44,962 (pa pro rata if part-time)Salary periodYearlyGrade(Band 6)
Specialty
Main areaDiabetes
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.
Job Overview
Senior Nurse Diabetes, Band 6 (30 hours a week)
Are you an energetic, compassionate registered nurse who has an interest in delivering excellent patient care. Then come and join our friendly, supportive, dynamic team at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We put patients and their families at the heart of everything we deliver. The Band 6 Specialist Diabetes Nurse will be an exciting opportunity, and you will be working with a supportive and compassionate team.
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers a countywide Diabetes and Endocrinology service in a variety of clinic-based locations. You will be working with a fully established specialist nurses diabetes, dietetic specialist team and Speciality doctors. The lead band 7 Specialist Nurse Diabetes will be supporting with induction and offer regular supervision. You should also be able to evidence consistent development of your knowledge, in order to provide patients with advanced treatment options.
Additional working pattern details: Working in countywide sites
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The candidate should communicate effectively and actively participate in Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings to aid patient care, joint treatment sessions, case conferences and specialist interest group meetings.
Established knowledge and skills in the field of diabetes, utilise diabetes specialist skills and competencies to encourage patient to self-manage, maximize rehabilitation potential, to ensure understanding of medication, diabetes as a life-long diagnosis, long term management of their condition, blood glucose & possible complications. The candidate should show good leadership skills, be responsible for mentoring junior staff and help them in achieving and maintaining competencies.
The candidate would be able to manage the countywide outpatients through clinic, including the administrative activities including dictating letters, organizing patients follow-ups. Also, to use clinical reasoning skills and techniques to assess, diagnose, plan and offer a range of treatment options; deliver, evaluate and amend the treatment plan, to make recommendations for appropriate and timely management in an outpatient and inpatient setting. Supporting admission to and discharge/transfer from hospital.
Work closely with the Lead nurse, Matron and Clinical lead to ensure the operational delivery of high-quality care, clinical safety & effective clinical governance, ensuring appropriate cross county cover for diabetes nursing care within given resources.
Working for our organisation
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides acute hospital services mainly from two large district general hospitals, Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. We remain the major provider of secondary care services in the area and analysis shows that for Gloucestershire we are the leading acute healthcare provider by a significant margin.
Required Skills
Our vision is Best Care For Everyone and Our People & Organisational Development Strategy will ensure we have the right number of staff with the required skills to be successful, through effective recruitment, retention, education, recognition & reward. We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
Caring
Listening
Excelling
Gloucestershire is one of multi-cultural county and we believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to advance the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
Benefits include; holiday entitlement as per NHS service, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, Occupational health services and much more.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Brief description is mentioned above. For detailed job description, please see the attached Job Description & Personal Specification document.
Additional working pattern details: Working in countywide sites
Additional Contact Details
Catherine Mathews
Matron - Diabetes, Dermatology, Rheumatology Endocrine and Medical Day Unit
[email protected]
The health and wellbeing of our staff and patients remains the priority of the Trust. Vaccination remains the best chance we have of conquering COVID and the Trust encourages everyone to take up this offer.
Please note, this vacancy may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received, so please apply as soon as possible if you are interested. The Recruitment Team are unable to accept any applications after the position has closed on NHS Jobs.
Committed to safeguarding our community
If applicable for the post, all successful candidates will be required to pay for their own Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The cost will be £29 (standard checks) or £46 (enhanced checks), and will be recovered through two instalments from the candidate's salary. Please contact [email protected] for further information.
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Applicant requirements
warning You must have appropriate UK professional registration. info 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.
Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge And Skills
Essential criteria
Registered Nurse with the Nursing Midwifery Council
Diabetes Nursing Qualification e.g. Certificate in Diabetes Care or equivalent
Currently working as a diabetes specialist nurse practice
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Creative and Flexible
Teaching / Mentor Qualification
Desirable criteria
Non-Medical Prescriber
Advanced IT skills that include the use of hospital IT systems and patient portals
Ability to switch between different activities and unpredictable demands to prevent hospital admissions and accelerate hospital discharges
A person who is able to be flexible, self-motivated and forward thinking
Documents
DSN Job Description and Person Specification (, 520.3)PDFKB
About Gloucestershire Hospitals (, 187.2)PDFKB
Discounts and Benefits (, 158.3)PDFKB
Further details / informal visits contact
NameKim HamblinJob titleLead Specialist Nurse DiabetesEmail address [email protected]Telephone number Additional information
Catherine Mathews
Matron - Diabetes, Dermatology, Rheumatology Endocrine and Medical Day Unit
[email protected]
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