Diabetes Specialist Nurse

The post holder will be a junior nurse aiming to become a diabetes specialist nurse. The post will involve training, to deliver evidence-based care, education, and information to people with diabetes and their families referred from Primary Care or from within Whittington Health.

The post holder will be expected to cover community clinics, structured group education sessions and home visits where required. Additionally, the post holder will be an integral part of the wider multi-disciplinary team.

The clinical base will cover both Islington and Haringey

• To work as a practitioner and be responsible for an identified caseload of patients beyond the expertise of general practice.
• To be a resource in diabetes to healthcare professionals, people with diabetes and their carers
• To work in collaboration with all members of the multidisciplinary healthcare team to promote excellent standards of care to people with diabetes in line with evidence based practice
• Facilitate self-management principles
• To reduce inappropriate referrals to hospital and facilitate the shift of diabetes care to the community
  
  

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nadia Mensah Job title: Lead Diabetes Specialist Nurse Email address: nadia.mensah1@nhs.net Telephone number: 0207 527 1713