Diabetes Specialist Nurse inBournemouth / Poole inBournemouth / Poole PUBLISHED
FRI 1 NOV 2024
This Band 6 Specialist Nurse will provide expert assessment and education to patients, their relatives, and healthcare professionals, emphasizing self-management and optimizing diabetes therapy. The role will also incorporate the increasing use of wearable technology for diabetes management. The position requires active UK NMC registration and involves rotational weekend working with a base location in Bournemouth, necessitating the ability to work across multiple sites.
The job will be initially as part of the inpatient diabetes team, helping to assess and plan care for patients with diabetes in hospital. The candidate will need to be able to work on their own and as part of a wider team.
Have you got a keen interest in diabetes nursing? Looking for your next step? Diabetes nursing is important now, more than ever before.
Diabetes services across University Hospitals Dorset are seeking to recruit a motivated, caring registered nurse who is passionate and committed to delivering safe and effective care to their patients. The Band 6 Diabetes Nurse Specialist works as part of an admission avoidance service, providing inpatient, outpatient and community services for patients with type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes, transitional diabetes and secondary diabetes.
As a team, we provide highly specialised, expert assessment and review of patients with diabetes. This involves education for patients, relatives, and health care professionals, with emphasis on self-management and optimisation of diabetes therapy. Patients are using wearable technology more frequently to help them manage their diabetes and we plan to increase this use over the next few years.
Rota: Rotational weekend working is required
This role requires an active UK NMC Registration
Base Location: Bournemouth, but you will be require to work across sites.
Interview Date: TBC
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
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To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
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