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About
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the county’s largest employer, we are proud to provide high-quality acute, elective, and specialist services to more than 650,000 people across our county. Our care is delivered across Gloucestershire Royal, Cheltenham General and Stroud Maternity Hospital.
With over 9,000 employees representing more than 95 nationalities, bringing together a mix of cultures and experiences to the care that we deliver. Whether you’re beginning your NHS journey or looking to take the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing heavily in innovation, research, and transformation, with more than 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our hospitals.
We take pride in working as one team, driven by a shared ambition to grow, develop, and continually improve. Every contribution is valued and by combining our collective strengths, we support not only our diverse communities but one another. You can expect a warm, supportive culture and colleagues who are passionate about teamwork, professional development and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring and leadership opportunities to help you progress in your career.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from a comprehensive package that includes flexible working opportunities, generous annual leave, the NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, local discounts, access to on-site nurseries, reduced public transport costs, reward and recognition schemes and a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
Be part of Gloucestershire Hospitals, explore your future with us today.
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Senior Nurse Diabetes, Band 6
Closed for applications on: 11-Dec-2024 01:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 11-Dec-2024 01:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Trustwide (GRH/CGH)
- Town
- Gloucestershire
- Postcode
- GL1 3NN
- Major / Minor Region
- Gloucestershire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 10 months (Maternity cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working in countywide sites)
Salary
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Diabetes
- Interview date
- 17/01/2025
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the county’s largest employer, we are proud to provide high-quality acute, elective, and specialist services to more than 650,000 people across our county. Our care is delivered across Gloucestershire Royal, Cheltenham General and Stroud Maternity Hospital.
With over 9,000 employees representing more than 95 nationalities, bringing together a mix of cultures and experiences to the care that we deliver. Whether you’re beginning your NHS journey or looking to take the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing heavily in innovation, research, and transformation, with more than 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our hospitals.
We take pride in working as one team, driven by a shared ambition to grow, develop, and continually improve. Every contribution is valued and by combining our collective strengths, we support not only our diverse communities but one another. You can expect a warm, supportive culture and colleagues who are passionate about teamwork, professional development and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring and leadership opportunities to help you progress in your career.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels they belong. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from a comprehensive package that includes flexible working opportunities, generous annual leave, the NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, local discounts, access to on-site nurseries, reduced public transport costs, reward and recognition schemes and a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
Be part of Gloucestershire Hospitals, explore your future with us today.
Job overview
Are you an energetic, compassionate registered nurse who has an interest in delivering excellent patient care. Then come and join our friendly, supportive, dynamic team at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We put patients and their families at the heart of everything we deliver. The Band 6 Specialist Diabetes Nurse will be an exciting opportunity, and you will be working with a supportive and compassionate team.
Additionally, we encourage Band 5 nurses who are passionate about pursuing a career as a Diabetes specialist to apply. If a suitable B6 candidate is not identified, we are open to considering a B5 nurse with special interest with some experience and knowledge of diabetes management.
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers a countywide Diabetes and Endocrinology service in a variety of clinic-based locations.
You will be working with a fully established specialist nurses diabetes, dietetic specialist team and Speciality doctors. The lead band 7 Specialist Nurse Diabetes will be supporting with induction and offer regular supervision. You should also be able to evidence consistent development of your knowledge, in order to provide patients with advanced treatment options .
Additional working pattern details: Working in countywide sites
The proposed interview date is 20th December
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The candidate should communicate effectively and actively participate in Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings to aid patient care, joint treatment sessions, case conferences and specialist interest group meetings.
Established knowledge and skills in the field of diabetes, utilise diabetes specialist skills and competencies to encourage patient to self-manage, maximize rehabilitation potential, to ensure understanding of medication, diabetes as a life-long diagnosis, long term management of their condition, blood glucose & possible complications. The candidate should show good leadership skills, be responsible for mentoring junior staff and help them in achieving and maintaining competencies.
The candidate would be able to manage the countywide outpatients through clinic, including the administrative activities including dictating letters, organizing patient’s follow-ups. Also, to use clinical reasoning skills and techniques to assess, diagnose, plan and offer a range of treatment options; deliver, evaluate and amend the treatment plan, to make recommendations for appropriate and timely management in an outpatient and inpatient setting. Supporting admission to and discharge/transfer from hospital.
Work closely with the Lead nurse, Matron and Clinical lead to ensure the operational delivery of high-quality care, clinical safety & effective clinical governance, ensuring appropriate cross county cover for diabetes nursing care within given resources.
Working for our organisation
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides acute hospital services mainly from two large district general hospitals, Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. We remain the major provider of secondary care services in the area and analysis shows that for Gloucestershire we are the leading acute healthcare provider by a significant margin.
Our vision is ‘Best Care For Everyone’ and Our People & Organisational Development Strategy will ensure we have the right number of staff with the required skills to be successful, through effective recruitment, retention, education, recognition & reward. We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
- Caring
- Listening
- Excelling
Gloucestershire is one of multi-cultural county and we believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to advance the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
Benefits include; holiday entitlement as per NHS service, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, Occupational health services and much more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Brief description is mentioned above. For detailed job description, please see the attached Job Description & Personal Specification document.
Additional Contact Details
Vinod Mani
Matron - Diabetes, Dermatology, Rheumatology Endocrine and Medical Day Unit
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 07815 010032
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with the Nursing Midwifery Council
- Diabetes Nursing Qualification e.g. Certificate in Diabetes Care or equivalent
- Currently working as a diabetes specialist nurse practice
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Creative and Flexible
- Teaching / Mentor Qualification
Desirable criteria
- Non-Medical Prescriber
- Advanced IT skills that include the use of hospital IT systems and patient portals
- Ability to switch between different activities and unpredictable demands to prevent hospital admissions and accelerate hospital discharges
- A person who is able to be flexible, self-motivated and forward thinking.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kim Hamblin
- Job title
- Lead Specialist Nurse Diabetes
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 8613
- Additional information
Vinod Mani
Matron - Diabetes, Dermatology, Rheumatology Endocrine and Medical Day Unit
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 07815 010032
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