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About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
National DAFNE Training Development Lead
Closed for applications on: 15-Jul-2024 00:03
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 15-Jul-2024 00:03
Key details
Location
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Address
- Rake Lane
- Town
- North Shields
- Postcode
- NE29 8NH
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Salary
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Diabetes Specialist Nurse
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
Your base site is North Tyneside Hospital, North Shields, home/remote working will be an option although it is expected that the post holder will attend base site as and when required.
Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating (DAFNE) is an internationally delivered self-management structured education (SE) programme, in insulin dose adjustment for adults with type 1 diabetes. DAFNE is recognised by NICE as the gold standard SE programme for type 1 diabetes.
DAFNE is delivered by 112 specialist diabetes teams across the UK, Republic of Ireland and Crown Dependencies. It has been adopted by overseas teams in Australia/New Zealand, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a confident, highly motivated, enthusiastic healthcare professional (HCP) with specialist knowledge/experience in diabetes, SE and intensive insulin therapy to join the team. Responsible for taking a leading role in the development of DAFNE patient and HCP training programmes and be able to demonstrate a capacity to design coherent education courses, linking taught components to work based practice.
The successful applicant will be experienced in training, coaching, behaviour change techniques and patient empowerment models.
High levels of personal and professional motivation are required to generate new ideas and initiatives to drive innovation and bring about change required to meet the developing needs of the person living with diabetes and their healthcare team.
Developed interpersonal and communication skills are essential to develop and maintain effective relationships with key members of the DAFNE programme team and internal and external stakeholders.
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The post holder is responsible for taking a leading role in the design and development of the DAFNE training portfolio for people living with diabetes.
The post holder will develop and deliver DAFNE training to healthcare professionals from national and international diabetes specialist teams on effective delivery of courses within the DAFNE portfolio for people living with diabetes.
They will develop and maintain robust assessment criteria and on-going quality assurance programmes for DAFNE educators and doctors.
Working collaboratively with the national director, operations manager and Executive Board to anticipate future training requirements and develop innovative training solutions to meet evolving diabetes healthcare needs.
The post holder will be responsible for managing a team of national DAFNE trainers to ensure ongoing provision of high-quality healthcare professional training.
The post holder will be able to apply a problem-solving approach with flexibility to meet deadlines and respond to changing priorities and needs to support the programme director to achieve the strategic aims of DAFNE.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Take a leading role in the development of DAFNE patient and healthcare professional training programmes and associated resources and curricula.
• To deliver DAFNE training to healthcare professionals on how to deliver the DAFNE patient courses as DAFNE educators/doctors and embed DAFNE within a specialist diabetes service; carry out a tutor role to provide professional development support and educator assessment.
• To contribute to external audit of DAFNE services in the UK and Republic of Ireland (RoI).
• To assess, advise and support specialist diabetes teams who are implementing the DAFNE Programme.
• Support the delivery of the national DAFNE Programme strategy; particularly, but not exclusively, areas relating to Educator activity.
• To be a member of the National DAFNE Executive Board
• Provide support and advice on educational and clinical aspects of DAFNE to the National Director helping them to succeed.
• Public figurehead / spokesperson for DAFNE educators
• Work with national director and operations manager in developing, implementing quality assurance for the national DAFNE programme.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, that as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post, you are agreeing to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Highly developed specialist knowledge underpinned by theory and experience in diabetes, intensive insulin therapy and structured education at a level equivalent to masters level.
- • Degree in Nursing or Dietetics or equivalent experience
- • Current professional registration
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Becky Hedgecock
- Job title
- National DAFNE Operations Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01913499660
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- Northumbria House
- Unit 7/8 Silverfox Way
- Cobalt Business Park
- NE27 0QJ
- Telephone
- 0191 203 1415
No longer accepting applications
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