Bank Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Main area: Community Diabetes Team
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Bank
Hours: Flexible working - 0 hours per week (As and When Required)
Job ref: 350-CCBank6772930
Site: Sefton Place
Town: Sefton
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/11/2024 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overviewWe are recruiting to our bank staff for Band 7 Diabetes Clinical Specialist Nurses to work within Sefton Place Community Diabetes Team. The post holder will need to demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge base in relation to Diabetes and promote excellence in nursing practice in a dynamic healthcare environment.
The post holder is expected to demonstrate leadership values within the team and contribute to the delivery of specialist nursing care, case management and provide direct patient care, acting as an expert practitioner to optimise patient health, provide education for self-care and complex management of patient pathways.
Main duties of the jobAn exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 7 Diabetes Clinical Specialist Nurses to join our cohort of bank staff, to work within Sefton Place Community Diabetes team as a Clinical Specialist Nurse. You will be expected to work within Sefton Place the Diabetes Team provide a service to patients in Southport, Formby and the South Sefton area.
The post holder will need to demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge base and promote excellence in nursing practice in a dynamic healthcare environment. It is essential that they demonstrate excellent leadership and communication skills, ensuring that they use initiative and work autonomously and that the post holder can lead a team effectively.
As an active member of a team, the post holder is expected to deliver specialist nursing care, case manage and provide direct patient care, acting as an expert practitioner to optimise patient health, provide education for self-care and complex management of patient pathway. The Specialist Diabetes Nurse will be part of a multi-disciplinary team and adapt an integrated approach to care delivery and actively support integration and service transformation.
Working for our organisationMersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesPlease refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of the role requirements.
Person specificationQualificationsDegree or equivalent qualification (evidence of study at degree level or higher)Appropriate prescriber (V300) or enrolled on course and due to completeEvidence of CPD/Short coursesRegistration with relevant professional bodyClinical Examination and Diagnostics (or working towards)Knowledge/ExperienceDemonstrable post registration/qualification experience in specialist areaExperience of management and clinical leadershipExperience of successful multiagency workingEvidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to careAwareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social CareEvidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleaguesUnderstanding how other agencies workAwareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policyExperience of delivering education and training programmes in specialist areaSkillsIT literateAbility to work under pressure and manage a diverse workloadExcellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skillsAbility to understand and analyse complex dataAbility to network with multidisciplinary colleaguesSelf-management and motivation skillsReport writing skillsConfidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issuesAbility to travel to work across boundariesValuesAccountabilitySupportResponsive to service usersEngaging leadership styleTransparency and honestyDiscreetAdditional InformationPlease ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email ****** to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form. Contact InformationName: Rowen Emmett
Job title: Operational Manager
Email address: ******
Telephone number: 07966241611
Additional information:
Gabriella Hall (interim team lead)
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