Diabetes Specialist Nurse
| Posting date: | 02 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,148.00 to £52,809.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46148.00 - £52809.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 July 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L14 3PE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9410-25-0110 |
Summary
To work autonomously in a fully nurse-led service. To act as a competent independent nurse prescriber. To confidently diagnose diabetes/impaired glucose regulation. To be accountable for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patientcare within the diabetes team. To confidently prescribe insulin when appropriate and titrate accordingly. To confidently manage NG feed related hyperglycaemia/steroids induced hyperglycaemia; and initiate insulin as/when appropriate. To manage the pre-op diabetes clinic, including managing all administrative processes of referrals, waiting lists, documentation, discharges and follow-up letters. To use specialised/expert knowledge to optimise patients in the outpatient clinic in a limited timeframe, managing both face-to-face and telephone appointments as appropriate. To act as an expert resource and provide advice about the management of diabetes to health care professionals within the trust. To have a good understanding and awareness of technology within diabetes, commencing patients on continuous glucose monitoring devices and providing appropriate education and support. To support patients and staff in managing devices such as insulin pumps and closed-loop systems. To use advanced clinical experience in diabetes care, as well as theoretical knowledge toprovide a high level of specialist care to people with diabetes. To teach patients how to manage their medication/insulin and own blood glucose monitoring. To provide on-going care and information on how to self-manage their chronic disease with a view to reducing long term complications, through altered medication and lifestyle modification. To provide highly specialised advice about diagnosis and treatment of diabetes to senior colleagues. To manage a defined patient caseload, working unsupervised and using specialist diabetes nursing skills to assess needs of the person with diabetes, and to plan, implement, document, and evaluate programmes of care. This includes referrals to other diabetes services outside of the Trust. To implement advice and support at an advanced level, directly to patients or relatives/carers, providing information to those who are newly diagnosed or with longstanding diabetes. To undertake assessment of patients/groups with complex problems by using clinical, investigative, and analytical skills to make difficult decisions about treatment and management plans. Provide education and training for all health care professionals in the safe management and care of patients with diabetes in the acute setting. To provide education for patients and teaching on how to self-manage complex diabetes. Identify, initiate, develop, coordinate, and participate in new educational initiatives for staff development. Demonstrate professional leadership and assist in the writing of protocols, policies and guidelines in relation to diabetes in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.