Diabetes Facilitator
Are you looking to work with a dynamic, forward thinking, and truly clinically led team? Do you have experience in working as a Specialist Diabetes Nurse with a passion for innovation, service development and educating others? Are you looking for a challenging, fulfilling post?
North East Essex Diabetes Service (NEEDS) is an award winning, progressive service, consisting of a team of 3 diabetes consultants / endocrinologists, 21 Specialist diabetes practitioners with varying backgrounds in nursing, dietetics, mental health, podiatry and health coaching and an excellent admin team to support. We provide specialist diabetes care to the 21,000 people living with diabetes across North East Essex, in the form of specialist diabetes clinics to the most complex cases, young persons, pre pregnancy, antenatal, insulin pump and MDT foot clinics, numerous diabetes patient structured education courses and a strong emphasis on up skilling and supporting primary care via education sessions, mentorship and in practice support alongside supporting delivery of Diabetes Masters modules at the University of Essex. We pride ourselves on our close collaborative working with multiple local community services, lifestyle services, health in mind, pharmacy and the CCG. We are an enthusiastic, friendly team and strive to provide a patient centred, safe, effective and high quality service. Regular CPD is scheduled for the team and on an individual basis to support ongoing evidenced based practice and encourage audit and research within the service.
What is the role?
The post holder will work as part of the local specialist diabetes team, as an autonomous practitioner assisting practices across North East Essex with the development of new to diabetes practice staff to improve confidence and achieve diabetes competencies within their own practice setting. An instrumental role focusing on developing and upskilling HCPs working within diabetes within the area ensuring the local work force remains upskilled within diabetes
- To empower HCPs working within practice enabling them to support people with diabetes across North East Essex and bordering areas as defined by the service requirements, to self-manage their diabetes and reduce risks of associated complications within their own practice area.
- To work as a facilitator across Primary and Community Care to educate and support our clinical partners in the management of diabetes care.
- To provide education, mentorship and development for other healthcare professionals involved in the wider diabetes pathway and within NEEDS.
- To take an innovative approach to improving diabetes care and patient outcomes across the whole diabetes pathway, alongside other members of the MDT.
- To empower HCPs working within practice enabling them to support people with diabetes across North East Essex and bordering areas as defined by the service requirements, to self-manage their diabetes and reduce risks of associated complications within their own practice area.
Is it for me?
We will work alongside the successful candidate to ensure they are sufficiently inducted and trained; there will be regular constructive supervision in place. It is important to us that you feel safe and supported in the role.
This post would ideally suit an innovative team player who is able to work as an autonomous practitioner and enjoys a varied workload.
- A minimum of 2 years post registration experience and a basic knowledge of diabetes gained from relevant role/ basic study and experience is ideal.
- You should be able to demonstrate effective group facilitation and presentation skills. An understanding of training and development initiatives in diabetes would be desirable.
Qualification as a DAFNE educator, as well as experience in insulin pump therapy and CGMS are desirable but not essential.
- Excellent organisation and communication skills are essential. Additional training required for the post will be provided for the right candidate. Candidate’s prior experience will also be considered and pay grade adjusted depending on interview and evidence of experience.
Contract type:
This is a permanent contract, one day per week.
What we can offer you:
- A strong ethos of flexible working, to help us maintain (or reclaim) that work/life balance.
- Innovative teams who strive in forward thinking, with a voice that is heard.
- A visible and supportive management team, with operational support that ‘get it’
- Excellent IT teams & support giving us first class equipment and ‘no wait’ responses
- A commitment to personal development, training, and leadership opportunities, with service-managed training budgets
- Cycle to work scheme
- Death in service cover
- Competitive salaries with annual benchmarking
- 27 days holiday (plus bank holidays) on starting, rising to 29 days (plus bank holidays) after 5 years’ service
- Blue light card employer – Access to the discount service with thousands of discounts online and on the high street.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Interested? Have questions? Just wondering? Please get in touch with Hannah Addington, hannah.addington@nhs.net , we'd love to hear from you.