Honiton Surgery, a GP practice of 17,749 patients, is recruiting a registered nurse to lead diabetes services alongside its practice nursing team. Most of the work is nurse-led diabetes clinics, assessing and treating patients with diabetes or pre-diabetes, initiating insulin and GLP-1s, and supporting colleagues. Diabetes is the main focus, though extra hours up to full time may suit a suitably qualified candidate, and nurses without diabetes experience may join a development pathway. Five years' post-registration experience and an enhanced DBS check are essential.
What the job involves
- Run nurse-led clinics to assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment for patients with diabetes, pre-diabetes or undifferentiated diagnosis
- Lead the planning and delivery of diabetes services with the practice team, promoting integrated pathways of care
- Initiate insulin and GLP-1s where indicated
- Mentor colleagues and delegate clinical tasks within their scope of practice
- Contribute to local and national practice targets, such as QOF
- Refer patients to other services and agencies and liaise to support vulnerable patients
- Promote health and wellbeing through health promotion screening
- Deliver treatment room services including immunisations, wound care, cytology and routine health checks
- Undertake home visits for patients with diabetes
- Keep accurate clinical records, use clinical codes correctly and manage chronic disease registers
- Detect and manage side effects and adverse reactions to prescribed treatment
- Request pathology tests and process the results
What’s required
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse
- Existing diabetes qualification or experience, or a strong motivation to undertake diabetes training
Registration & licences
- Evidence to meet nurse revalidation requirements and continuing professional development
Experience
- 5 years' post-registration experience
- Managing diabetes and chronic disease management
- Practice or community nursing
- Working autonomously
Skills & knowledge
- Wound care, suture and staple removal, venepuncture, ECGs and new patient medicals
- Immunisations (routine, childhood and travel) and chaperoning
- Requesting pathology tests and processing results, advising patients
- Accurate clinical record keeping and working within own scope, referring to GPs when needed
- Understanding of PGDs, clinical policy and evidence-based practice
- Excellent written and oral communication, with strong IT and clinical systems skills
Checks & eligibility
- Enhanced DBS check
- Occupational Health clearance
Other
- Flexibility to work outside core office hours
Nice to have
- Two years' diabetes management in a primary, community or hospital setting
- Managing elderly and housebound patients
- Quality initiatives experience
- Mentor or teaching qualification
- Nurse prescriber qualification
- Master's level diabetes qualification
- Audit experience, including leading audit programmes
- Clinical governance and clinical risk management knowledge
What’s offered
- Development pathway to become a diabetes nurse for suitably motivated candidates
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
