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Job Description
Job summary
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join the Diabetes Nursing team at Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust on the Lewisham site. The Diabetes Specialist Nurse will be providing evidence-based clinical advice to healthcare professionals, patients, and their carers. The successful applicant will be working within the MDT providing specialist care, advice, and education for various patient groups within diabetes including Type 1, Complex Type 2, Antenatal, Pump, and Libre care pathways.
Main duties of the job
- To co-ordinate the specialty cares within the Trust.
- To become an essential member, and point of contact and resource for the multi-disciplinary team and patients and carers with diabetes.
- Carries out diabetes and related diagnostic/therapeutic interventions as an independent practitioner, interprets, writes reports and commences further possible treatment on the basis of the findings.
- Carries out diabetes complex therapeutic/investigational procedures under indirect supervision of the Consultant, ensuring that they are carried out using safe practice and under agreed guidelines/protocols to ensure that the highest possible standard is obtained based on competent clinical practice.
- To demonstrate the ability to develop new skills, to provide an expert high-quality, nurse-led service.
- To provide ongoing follow-up care and support (home visits / telephone support / nurse/midwife led clinics / outpatient clinics and outreach clinics).
- To develop the service in a structured interdisciplinary way, initiating ongoing change and progression in the expanding role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist Diabetes.
- To develop interdisciplinary clinical management protocols and work within them.
- Autonomously or in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, manage the care of patients carrying out relevant interventions, within agreed clinical protocols and in line with current practice/trends.