Diabetes Specialist Nurse inDarlington inDarlington PUBLISHED 21 DEC 2023
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The post holder will be required to provide a comprehensive and integrated specialist nursing service
for people with diabetes both in the Hospital and in the Community.
The role aims to drive parity of esteem strengthening the diabetes service offer and partnership
approaches to ensure equal access, outcomes and experience in diabetes.
The post holder will join other colleagues providing a service for adult people with diabetes they will
act as an additional resource for nursing colleagues and other health workers offering expert care,
advice, teaching and support and building up communication links as needed. Flexibility is essential in
this post.
Main duties include providing an inpatient diabetes service. Assessing and reviewing acutely unwell
patients to enable they have a positive patient journey.
Ensuring that they are receiving high quality diabetic care as well as ensuring that their medications are
appropriate and patient centred to achieve good outcomes and reduce long term effects of diabetes.
Supportingpatients with the available technology eg CGM, Flash glucose monitoring and insulin pumps.
Empowering patients to take control of their diabetes and promote self management. Influencing
practice and partnership working across primary care, secondary and mental health and learning
disability services
About us1. To develop the awareness of people with diabetes and where appropriate their relatives/carers
into the most efficient use of their diabetic equipment.
2. To develop the awareness of people with diabetes and relatives/carers about factors
contributing to the promotion of good health/improvement in the management of diabetes, to ensure
all possible assistance is identified to provide an acceptable independent quality of life for the patient
involving pre and post discharge visits.
3. To act as a resource by providing teaching sessions for Hospital/Community based Health Care
Professionals as required
4. To organise and have an active role in the planning, delivery and education of patients, their
families and carers.
5. To provide insulin education workshops for patients, families and carers, which are
continuously evaluated for effectiveness through audit and developed to need.
6. Provide people with diabetes and their families with verbal and written information/advice
about their illness and treatment and management of newly diagnosed or long standing diabetes.
7. To assist in health education and to provide advice on any possible
lifestyle changes that may be required, i.e. diet, exercise, smoking,
foot care.
8. A special interest or previous experience/training in the mental health or learning disability field.
9 To take lead role working with Diabetes patients
10 Adjust treatments plans and pathways
The post holder will be required to provide a comprehensive and integrated specialist nursing service
for people with diabetes both in the Hospital and in the Community.
The role aims to drive parity of esteem strengthening the diabetes service offer and partnership
approaches to ensure equal access, outcomes and experience in diabetes.
The post holder will join other colleagues providing a service for adult people with diabetes they will
act as an additional resource for nursing colleagues and other health workers offering expert care,
advice, teaching and support and building up communication links as needed. Flexibility is essential in
this post.
Main duties include providing an inpatient diabetes service. Assessing and reviewing acutely unwell
patients to enable they have a positive patient journey.
Ensuring that they are receiving high quality diabetic care as well as ensuring that their medications are
appropriate and patient centred to achieve good outcomes and reduce long term effects of diabetes.
Supportingpatients with the available technology eg CGM, Flash glucose monitoring and insulin pumps.
Empowering patients to take control of their diabetes and promote self management. Influencing
practice and partnership working across primary care, secondary and mental health and learning
disability services
About us
1. To develop the awareness of people with diabetes and where appropriate their relatives/carers
into the most efficient use of their diabetic equipment.
2. To develop the awareness of people with diabetes and relatives/carers about factors
contributing to the promotion of good health/improvement in the management of diabetes, to ensure
all possible assistance is identified to provide an acceptable independent quality of life for the patient
involving pre and post discharge visits.
3. To act as a resource by providing teaching sessions for Hospital/Community based Health Care
Professionals as required
4. To organise and have an active role in the planning, delivery and education of patients, their
families and carers.
5. To provide insulin education workshops for patients, families and carers, which are
continuously evaluated for effectiveness through audit and developed to need.
6. Provide people with diabetes and their families with verbal and written information/advice
about their illness and treatment and management of newly diagnosed or long standing diabetes.
7. To assist in health education and to provide advice on any possible
lifestyle changes that may be required, i.e. diet, exercise, smoking,
foot care.
8. A special interest or previous experience/training in the mental health or learning disability field.
9 To take lead role working with Diabetes patients
10 Adjust treatments plans and pathways
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