Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Diabetes Specialist Nurse to join our existing team, providing Adult Diabetes Services across the Havering area for three days per week.

Our Integrated service model encompasses a multidisciplinary approach to Diabetes Care in the community setting, allowing shared responsibility for the person with diabetes. The service aims to maximise the opportunity for preventing complications of diabetes through an effective empowerment and partnership approach, focusing on individual care planning, support for professional and patient education

If you are an overseas qualified nurse and wanting to start your journey to becoming a UK based registered nurse with the NMC, you can check whether you are eligible to be supported through our Capital Nurse consortium. Please visit; https://www.capitalnurselondon.co.uk/how-to-apply/. Whilst NELFT is happy to welcome overseas nurses we are unable to consider your application directly. You should submit your interest and apply through the Capital Nurse London group.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate would be expected to work within a team of skilled diabetes specialist nurses and to deliver a high standard of evidence based clinical care to patients and their carers, and to work as part of the Integrated Diabetes Service, within the community setting. The successful candidate must be confident to deliver education sessions to both patients and healthcare professionals.The successful candidate will require excellent communication skills and will need to be confident to work alone and within a multidisciplinary team.We are seeking a highly motivated individual who will contribute to the developments of our multi-disciplinary specialist community service and who has a commitment to continued personal development and is able to travel efficiently across the area of Havering , including to patients in their own homes.