Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist - Diabetes

The closing date is 10th Feb 2023

Job summary

Are you an experienced, highly motivated and enthusiastic nurse?

Do you have experience in diabetes care or are you looking for a new challenge and would like the opportunity to work within this specialist service within community care?

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and ambitious CNS in Diabetes. To deliver high levels of diabetes care to people within Solihull Community.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

This is an exciting opportunity to develop your diabetes and community care skills.

You will act as a specialist resource and provide specialist advice in relation to care of people with diabetes and provide a range of educational and training programmes for the multidisciplinary team, patients, families and carers.

You will be supported to work autonomously and become an independent prescriber if you are not already.

You will be involved in working closely with primary care colleagues, including diabetes MDTs within the new Integrated Care Structure across the BSol area.

If you think you have what it takes to join a forward thinking, innovative team committed to the delivery of high quality care then we want to hear from you.

To be shortlisted applicants will need to detail in their supporting information how they can demonstrate the essential requirements of the experience and skills section of the person specification.

The post holder will be expected to work Monday -- Friday as core business hours..

For further information, to arrange a visit, telephone Theresa Smyth, Nurse Consultant in Diabetes, Telephone: 07747630919

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description

*Please Note : For a specific detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Adult / Child Nurse on the NMC Register (Field dependent upon role )

Evidence of post registration CPD / Post registration qualification in (appropriate area of speciality or professional knowledge supplemented by specialist experience and short courses to degree / masters level equivalent FHEQ Level 6 /7)

Recognised mentorship course

Experience

Essential

Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC

Significant years post registration experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at B6 or above in defined or associated speciality

Extensive experience of working autonomously at a specialist level

Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of ongoing professional development/ competence

Demonstrate expert knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to speciality

Experience and enthusiasm for developing educational programmes and teaching / assessing and supervising others in a clinical setting

Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment

Experience of patient service user advocacy role

Can demonstrate expert nursing knowledge with an ability to assess, plan , implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients and give advice and information to patients / relatives/ care staff

Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context relating to the speciality

Has understanding / experience of the principles of Safeguarding

Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact: 

Theresa Smyth 

Theresa.Smyth@uhb.nhs.uk 

07747630919 

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change 

Band

Band 7 

Salary

£41659.00  to £47672.00 Yearly 

Contract

Permanent 

Working pattern

Full-Time, Flexible Working 

Reference number

304-48477GB 

Job locations

Solihull Community Nursing 
Friars Gate,  1011 Stratford Road 
Solihull 
West Midlands 
B90 4BN 

Attachments

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