Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will work as a specialist nurse within an established multi-professional team.

You will be hospital based supporting inpatient care, providing education and support for families. You will also support multi-professional clinics as well as seeing patients independently in nurse clinics.

You will provide clinical advice and support to families and schools to try and prevent deterioration in illness and reduce hospital admissions. You will provide education and support to nursery and school staff to enable children and young people to return to their usual routines.

You will be involved with starting patients on new technologies and providing patients and families with ongoing education and support to reduce the risk of short and long-term complications.

You will be required to undertake community visits and, therefore, will require a full UK driving licence and access to a car.

Person specification

Other

Essential criteria

• Hold a full UK driving license and have access to a car

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• RN Child, RSCN
• NMC Registration

Desirable criteria

• Accredited diabetes course, or willingness to undertake

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience working with children and young people with diabetes
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team

Desirable criteria

• Experience of dealing with complex safeguarding situations

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to demonstrate IT skills, use of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Planning and Organisation Skills

Essential criteria

• Able to organise and prioritise a complex patient caseload

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

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