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This is an exciting opportunity to join a progressive and innovative Children's Diabetes team as a Children’s Diabetes Specialist Nurse.

Future service development will include transition and a special interest in this age group will be of benefit.

You will gain an insight into a specialist role working in a community setting. The postholder will carry continuing responsibility for the management of a defined caseload of Children with Diabetes in a variety of settings e.g. primary and secondary care, home and schools, work and colleges. The postholder uses clinical judgement and autonomous decision making for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programs of care and the setting of standards of care. The jobholder willprovide specialised advanced nursing skills and expertise to a specific patient group and will lead on the development of the specialist service. The postholder will ensure cost effective use of resources, and contributes to the strategic direction of the service and nursing within the Trust.

This will be achieved through the core dimensions of the role, clinical practice, leadership, and acting as the patient advocate through audit and education.

The trust values the contribution of specialist nursing role and will supports the post holder contributing with the development of nursing aligned to the organisations objectives and goals.

Main duties of the job

. The postholder will

carry continuing responsibility for the management of a defined caseload

of Children with Diabetes in a variety of settings e.g. primary and secondary care, home

and schools, work and colleges. The postholder uses clinical judgement and autonomous

decision making for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation

and evaluation of programs of care and the setting of standards of care. The jobholder will

provide specialised advanced nursing skills and expertise to a specific patient group and will lead

on the development of the specialist service. The postholder will ensure cost effective use of

resources, and contributes to the strategic direction of the service and nursing within the Trust.

This will be achieved through the core dimensions of the role, clinical practice, leadership, and

acting as the patient advocate through audit and education.

Working for our organisation

Our new Northern Care Alliance NHS Group unites five local hospitals to deliver high quality care across the North East of Greater Manchester.

The Alliance provides the benefits of scale but delivers this locally through multiple hospital sites which make up four new Care Organisations – Bury/Rochdale, North Manchester, Oldham and Salford. Using our mantra of ‘Saving lives, Improving lives’, the aim is for our Care Organisations to work closely with the communities they serve to deliver safe, high quality and reliable care, which are trusted, connected and pioneering.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Work with children and young people predominately up to the age of 19 years with type 1,

type 2 and other forms of diabetes

• Meet the needs of patients with unusual forms of diabetes or difficult cases.
• Will undertake specialist assessment of patients nursing needs, plan, implement and

evaluate care delivery using clinical knowledge and clinical skills.

• Manage a patient caseload providing expert assessment, planning and evaluation.
• Provide specialist care and advice (insulin pumps therapy, Multiple daily injections,

carbohydrate counting, variable doses and insulin adjustments, use continuous blood

glucose monitoring and interpretation of results) etc for young people and families in

hospital/home/school/work/college via phone / face to face

• Will need to participate and liaise with other professionals regarding safeguarding and

attendance at CAF meetings and care arrangements

• Develop and run nurse-led clinics, using nurse prescribing
• Autonomous clinical decision making
• Contribute towards a multi-professional approach in the management of patients within the

specialist area, especially in relation to ongoing care needs and discharge arrangements.

• Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers / relatives.
• Support patients and their families and ensure that they receive the required information to

enable them to self-manage, lead or participate in their care delivery.

• Recognise changes in patients’ condition that require the intervention of others and refer on

as appropriate.

• Work with the Team Leader to promote the development of nurses undertaking extended

roles as considered appropriate.

Future development of our transition service is planned.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.