Diabetes specialist nurse in Carshalton

Job Responsibilities

• To work autonomously and collaboratively with other members of the practice's diabetes team, to provide specialist, evidence-based and high quality diabetes care.

Key Responsibilities

• To have clinical responsibility for a shared patient caseload; working in partnership with patients and their families to promote high quality, patient-centred care.
• Acting as a specialist resource; providing clinical expertise, specialist diabetes advice and support to the multi-disciplinary practice team.
• Delivering evidence-based, individualised and personalised care through holistic needs assessment, and evaluating care and all care interventions.
• Encouraging lifestyle changes to improve diabetes control through motivational techniques.
• Promoting choice by using advanced communication skills to negotiate treatment and care options for patients, carers and their families, whilst ensuring the delivery of high quality care.
• Promoting concordance and continuity of care through the use of non-medical prescribing.

Professional Responsibilities

• Ensure NMC registration is maintained through participating in revalidation every 3 years.
• Work in accordance with the current NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• Record accurate consultation data in patients' records in accordance with NMC guidance.
• Participate in professional development opportunities to ensure that evidence-based knowledge and competencies are updated.
• Promote evidence-based practice through the use of current research-based guidelines.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and organisations within and external to the practice.
• Monitor effectiveness and safety of practice through clinical supervision, peer review and use of audit.

Teaching Role

• Promote a learning environment for patients, colleagues and other healthcare professionals.
• Participate in the practice's multi-disciplinary team meetings.
• Contribute to the learning of GP registrars, nursing and medical students.

Health and Safety/Risk Management

• The post-holder must comply at all times with the practice's health and safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisation's Incident reporting system.
• The post-holder must comply with the Data Protection Act (1984) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990).

Equality and Diversity

• The post-holder must comply with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment.
• Co-workers, patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

Respect for Patient Confidentiality

• The post-holder must respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information, unless it is in the best interests of the patient and in accordance with the Caldicott principles.

Special Working Conditions

• The post-holder will have contact with body fluids, and must seek advice as necessary on sustaining a needle-stick injury or clearing up body fluids.

Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1994

• Because of the nature of the work, this post is exempt from the provisions of Section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1994 (Exceptions) Order 1995.
• Applicants for posts are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are spent under the provisions of the Act and in the event of employment any failure to disclose such convictions could result in disciplinary action or dismissal by the Practice.
• Any information given will be completely confidential and will be considered only in relation to an applicant of a position to which the order applies.

Job Description Agreement

• This job description is intended to provide an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities only. There may be other duties required of the post-holder commensurate with the position.
• This description will be open to regular review and may be amended to take into account development within the practice.
• All members of staff should be prepared to take on additional duties in order to maintain the efficient running of the practice.

Planned Review Of Job Description

• Annually
• The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the organisation and the overall business objectives of the organisation.
• This job description may need to be reviewed or revised from time to time as the practice develops.