Paediatric Diabetic Nurse Specialist
Do You have a passion for Diabetes and sharing your knowledge and skills.
Are you able to lead a team and ensure service delivery and growth
We’re looking for an experienced Paediatric Diabetic Nurse to join our Diabetes team.
As the Team lead for the Paediatric Diabetic Nursing service; the role involves leading the Band 6 and Band 5 diabetes team members, and working closely with the Paediatric diabetes consultants and wider MDT. You will be supported and encouraged to develop your existing skills and gain new ones within our wider outpatient and paediatric team. As a PDSN you will be involved in clinics, teaching and establishing pump starts.
This is an exciting opportunity to take the lead in developing the Diabetic service. You’ll help build stronger links between Paediatric and Adult services, while also working directly with young people in adult settings to support their transition, Liaising with the Transition lead nurse.
You’ll play a key role in supporting children and young people needing Diabetic care. This includes leading on care planning, advocating for patients and families, and facilitating multi\-disciplinary meetings. A core part of the role is ensuring that services are accessible, inclusive, and responsive to individual needs.
As a Specialist Nurse, you will be confident working autonomously when required and able to plan and manage your workload effectively.
You will work with your team to provide expert clinical care and expertise within the diabetic service.
The role involves supporting children and young people with diabetes to access appropriate care, while empowering them to make informed decisions and confidently manage their condition, care and health .
You will also be expected to teach and support colleagues across the Trust, sharing knowledge and promoting consistent, high\-quality care. As a Diabetes CNS you will advise and liaise with professional colleagues in both secondary and primary care ensuring optimum co\-ordination of care and initiating changes in clinical management as appropriate .
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
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Core Knowledge and Understanding
- Understands the business of each of the departments, wards and speciality services
- Understanding of the local and national nursing agenda
- Understanding of relevant national service guidance pertinent to the service
- Awareness of Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust guidelines and policies
- Understanding of organisational structures
- Commitment to clinical audit, research and evidence\-based practice
- Awareness of budget management
- Awareness of Human resources policies and guidance as pertinent to the management and leadership of the clinical team
- Knowledge and understanding of current issues in health and social care
- Awareness of, and engagement with the regional system providers and healthcare organisations across the region
- Has a clear understanding of different insulin formulation and delivery regimes
Clinical Practice
- Provide visible clinical leadership and acts as a role model to the nursing and wider team by delivering high quality compassionate care as an expert practitioner
- Promote and maintain positive working relationships between all staff, internal and external to the Trust, involved in the care of patients
- Work at an advanced level of practice autonomously and self\-directed
- Plan, prioritise, and manage complete episodes of care in partnership with multidisciplinary teams. Delegate and refer appropriately to optimise health outcomes and ensure effective use of resources, while providing direct support to patients and clients, including the arrangement of patient management meetings in a variety of settings, preparing and presenting reports as required.
- Devise, negotiate, implement, supervise, and review individualised treatment plans in collaboration with service users, their families, and carers, ensuring care is person\-centred and responsive to changing needs
- Educate and empower children, families, and carers to understand and manage diabetes by providing tailored support, education, and counselling. Work collaboratively to assess needs, plan and implement care through individualised care programmes, enabling informed decision\-making and fostering confidence in self\-management of their condition and overall health
- Draw upon an appropriate range of multi\-agency and inter\-professional resources in their practice. To advise and liaise with professional colleagues in both secondary and primary care ensuring optimum co\-ordination of care and initiating changes in clinical management as appropriate.
- Ensure that documentation standards are maintained in accordance with NMC and RSFT guidelines, whether written or computerised. To be responsible for contemporaneous patient record keeping and recording activity data on trust systems.
- Will function as a nurse independent prescriber in accordance with the service need and in line with professional registration or will work under the Non\-medical Prescribing standing operating procedure to enable insulin adjustment within own competence and scope of practice.
- Be familiar with all the hybrid closed loop systems currently available in the UK.
- Download and interpret HCL system download data and make dose/setting adjustments accordingly in line with scope of practice
- Promote a high standard of advanced specialist nursing by initiating and coordinating
- the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of the holistic needs of patients/families through evidence\-based practice following agreed policies, protocols and guidelines.
- Practice a high standard of communication including highly sensitive and complex information to develop and sustain partnership working with individuals, groups, communities and agencies.
- Balance clinical risk and clinical decision making against context
- Help to set, monitor and seek to continuously improve standards and the quality of patient care, including those standards defined in local and national guidance
- Maintain a safe working environment
- Ensure the safe use and efficient management of equipment and supplies
- Promote compassionate evidence\-based practice, wherever possible
- Act in such a way that safeguards the health and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults at all times.
- Is familiar with and adheres to the RSFT safeguarding policies.
- Act in accordance to the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Code: Professional Standards Practice and Behaviour
- Fulfils the requirements as directed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council to maintain and revalidate registration
- Collaborate with the multi professional team to develop a shared vision of the service.
- To manage own time, having accountability for own professional actions, effectively prioritising clinical and non\-clinical workload.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to develop effective documentation, pathways, protocols and guidelines for care.
- Demonstrate a commitment to share expertise and disseminate information.
- Contribute to the development of the teams and the service to continuously improve patient care
- Participate in implementing national standards and frameworks at a local level.
- Network locally, regionally, nationally and internationally and seek opportunities to develop the transition nurse role.
- Use effective change management skills to initiate and implement service and practice development, making the best use of resources to improve practice and health outcomes.
- Participate in the selection, interviewing, appraisal and professional development of team members.
- Maintain involvement and active input in multidisciplinary meetings and appropriate local bodies / forums to contribute to practice and service development
- Support and inspire staff to provide efficient, effective, safe, quality care to patients
- Deliver a positive patient experience
- Promote the building of effective teams and collaboration between teams
- Support t
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