Diabetes Specialist Nurse

As the nurse specialist within the defined sphere of practice the post holder is responsible for providing specialist knowledge care to patients. They will act as the first point of contact who have need to access the specialist service. They will undertake a range of duties to ensure the effective delivery of care including undertaking specialist procedures, providing specialist advice, structured education and ongoing support to their client group, based on individual need.

The nurse specialist will support the development and implementation of the integrated diabetes service across the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) in collaboration with other community providers to improve the quality of diabetes care.

Main duties of the job

Participates in developing specialist programmes of care for a caseload of patient

Responsible for providing ongoing care to the caseload of patients

Uses specialist knowledge and expertise to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care interventions for the patient

Uses specialist knowledge and expertise to adjust insulin and oral hypoglycaemic agent doses within protocol guidelines

Uses expertise to recommend adjustments/amendments to treatment plans, in consultation with patients to members of the multi-professional team

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.