Community Diabetes Clinical Lead. | Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 24 April 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 May 2024 |
| Location: | Lincoln, LN5 7JH |
| Company: | Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6229082/818-CYP219 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Diabetes team as a Community Diabetes Clinical Lead. We would like to hear from you if you have a high level of skill and theoretical knowledge to help deliver high quality care, efficiently and cost effectively. The focus will be on enabling people with diabetes to remain healthy by working collaboratively to promote self-management and avoid acute and long-term complications of diabetes. Providing specialist nursing care, advice, guidance and leadership across our community Trust. Take a Leadership role in the continuous development of the service.
An integral part of the role is to work with the Team to implement local and national guidance for diabetes to deliver high standards of diabetes care throughout the Trust. Positive leadership, good communication and expert knowledge are required.
To be the Clinical Lead for the Lincolnshire Community Diabetes service, providing expert clinical leadership to the Diabetes teams, developing and implementing innovative methods of care and service development.
As an independent non-medical prescriber and clinical expert in the field of Diabetes the post holder will practice at an advanced level demonstrating in depth knowledge and competence, encompassing enhanced assessment, critical thinking and clinical management skills that are evidence based and deliver high quality patient centred care.
Provide vision and professional leadership to the community adult diabetes team.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagementin the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.
At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS’ workforce.
LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.
We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an ‘earn while you learn’ apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out morehttps://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev
Use highly developed specialist clinical knowledge to independently assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatments and interventions for patients presenting to the Diabetes service.
Undertake examination and clinical procedures as indicated and appropriate by the patient’s condition; working autonomously, assessing complex clinical signs and investigation results related to diabetes
Autonomously formulate appropriate management plans for patients, formulate clinical decisions and often complex treatment plans to manage diabetes and avoid hospital admission
Prescribe and review medication (as an independent prescriber) for therapeutic effectiveness appropriate to patient need and in accordance with best/evidence based practice and national and local protocols and within the role’s scope of practice and legal framework. Integrate both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment in patient care/management plans.
Work in partnership with the senior operational leaders within the service, system partners and senior multi-disciplinary teams, driving service development and change, working towards one integrated diabetes service for Lincolnshire.
The post holder will have a Trust-wide responsibility to promote clinical excellence in the care of patients presenting with Diabetes problems by providing clinical advice and support to nursing staff and other health care professionals. They will provide expert professional and independent clinical care which enables the coordination of a multi professional seamless service for patients.
The role will include developing audit and research.
This advert closes on Monday 13 May 2024