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Clinical Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Central London Community Health Trust London On-site senior part-time

Salary

£66274 to £73496

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Description

Bring your specialist expertise and leadership to the Inner London Diabetes Service. This is an opportunity to shape high-quality care for people living with diabetes across Hammersmith & Fulham, Westminster, and Kensington & Chelsea.

As Clinical Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse, you will provide senior clinical and professional leadership, offer expert advice on complex diabetes care, and help develop safe, effective, evidence-based and patient-centred services.

Working alongside multidisciplinary teams, primary and secondary care colleagues and wider system partners, you will turn collaborative working into meaningful service improvement. From integrated care pathways and clinical standards to workforce development, your leadership will help the service respond to the changing needs of people living with diabetes.

Main duties of the job:

  • Lead with expertise - Provide senior clinical and professional leadership across the Inner London Diabetes Service.
  • Guide complex care - Act as a source of expert diabetes advice and support clinical decision-making.
  • Shape clinical practice - Lead and support the development of evidence-based practice, pathways and standards.
  • Drive improvement - Champion quality improvement, service innovation and transformation.
  • Connect care across services - Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, primary and secondary care colleagues and wider system partners to support integrated, patient-centred care.
  • Keep patients at the centre - Promote improvements in clinical outcomes and patient experience.
  • Support and inspire the workforce - Provide professional leadership and support to specialist diabetes nurses.
  • Develop people and uphold standards - Contribute to education, supervision, workforce development and clinical governance.
  • Help the service evolve. Support continued development in line with national guidance, best practice and local population needs.

The post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

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Skills

Required

  • Registered Nurse - current NMC registration
  • Evidence of on-going and recent post-registration training and education at master's level
  • Evidence of professional updating and further education in diabetes
  • Leadership training or qualifications
  • Independent Nurse Prescriber (or on pathway to complete)
  • Extensive post registration clinical experience at a senior level
  • Experience as diabetes specialist nurse
  • Experience in managing, auditing, and evaluating clinical nursing services
  • Experience of initiating and implementing changes to services
  • Experience of working collaboratively with a variety of agencies
  • Evidence of innovation in practice
  • Has the necessary clinical skills required for the post
  • Basic IT skills including use of Microsoft Office package and email
  • Resourceful and able to affect change through leadership and influence
  • Knowledge of evidence based for management of diabetes
  • Knowledge of current NHS organisational structure and policy initiatives
  • Knowledge of implementing and monitoring service outcome measures
  • Knowledge of research process and application to practice

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9824-26-1045

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