HCRG Care Group is seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Band 7 Specialist Diabetes Nurse to join our team at Ormskirk, Lancashire. As a key member of our community healthcare team, you will have the opportunity to make a real impact on the lives of patients living with diabetes.
The Diabetes Specialist Nurse service is to promote the health and wellbeing of people with diabetes enabling them to achieve optimum glycaemic control through informed self-management. The successful candidate will provide a link between GP and consultant led specialist teams and will provide education and support both to people with diabetes and those who care for them.
This is a permanent full-time role working 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday. You will have the opportunity to work alongside a supportive and collaborative team, and to further develop your skills and expertise in diabetes care.
If you're passionate about making a difference and delivering high-quality care, we want to hear from you.
Package Description You will feel valued as a Band 7 Specialist Diabetes Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
Band 7 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Main ResponsibilitiesThe successful candidate will be responsible for:
Management of own workload, responding to urgent clinical/service needs across locality and liaising with colleagues as required.
To contribute to specialist protocols and policies for diabetes.
Assess, plan and implement specialist nursing care programs. This may be for individual patients or for groups of patients.
Responsible for providing specialist nursing care to patients with complex needs, e.g., those patients requiring insulin therapy.
Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
The Ideal CandidateWe are looking for a candidate who is driven, passionate and wanting to make a difference to their patients and families, you must also be:
A registered general nurse (NMC)
A V300 Independent Nurses prescriber (evidence: Certificate)
A minimum of 2 years’ experience of working in the field of diabetes
Experience of working in the community
Full UK driving license and access to vehicle
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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