Diabetes Specialist Nurse Team Lead

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Job overviewAs a Band 7 Diabetes Specialist Nurse Team Lead, you will work within Sefton Place Community Diabetes Team, providing operational team leader support, along with clinical support to patients on the caseload. 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 provide visible leadership, demonstrating leadership values within the team and contribute to the delivery of specialist nursing care, caseload 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 a Band 7 Diabetes Clinical Specialist Nurse, to work within Sefton Place Community Diabetes team as a Clinical Specialist Nurse Team Lead. 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.
Experience of Leadership/Management is also essential for the role. It is essential that you possess excellent leadership and communication skills, ensuring that you take initiative and work autonomously to effectively lead the team.
As an active member of a team, the post holder is expected to deliver specialist nursing care, manage a caseload, 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. The Specialist Diabetes Nurse will be part of a multi-disciplinary team and adopt 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)Evidence 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 multi-agency 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 literate.Ability 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 boundaries----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We celebrate diversity and promote 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.
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.
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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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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.

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