Senior Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Band 7 Senior Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse

18.75 Hours per Week / Permanent

Are you an enthusiastic and innovative nurse with a passion for improving the lives of children and young people living with diabetes? If you are looking for a rewarding role where you can truly make an impact, we would love to hear from you.

Our paediatric diabetes service is continuing to grow and evolve, supported by a highly motivated multidisciplinary team dedicated to delivering outstanding, child-centred care.

As a Senior Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse, you will play a pivotal role within our specialist MDT, helping to drive service innovation, improve patient outcomes, and support children, young people, and their families throughout their diabetes journey. We are looking for someone who is proactive, compassionate, and excited by the opportunity to help shape and develop accessible, high-quality services.

We are seeking a nurse who:

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Child branch or Registered Sick Children's Nurse (RSCN).
• Recognised Post graduate Paediatric Diabetes Qualification
• Independent Non-Medical Prescribing qualification (Active on the NMC register) or willingness to undertake.
• Teaching qualification or equivalent, willingness to undertake, or equivalent experience.

Desirable

• Educated to MSc Degree level in Paediatric diabetes

Leadership development programme or willingness to undertake leadership training.

Advanced Communication Skills Training.

Completed / completing a Master's pathway.

Experience

Essential

• Significant demonstrable experience within paediatric diabetes care with evidence of professional development within this specialism.
• Previous experience of formal / informal teaching of CYP's & staff.
• Experience in managing paediatric diabetes CYP's in the hospital and community settings.
• Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources.
• Previous practice development experience.

Desirable

• Previous experience in audit and evaluation.
• Experience in acting as a clinical supervisor and mentor to others
• Extensive diabetes experience.
• Previous experience of providing support via an on-call service during evenings and weekends.

Skills

Essential

• Direct care skills in hospital and community settings (i.e. Insulin dose adjustment, able to lead on pump starts and CGM starts, history taking, assessment, treatment and evaluation in relation to diabetes).

Advanced clinical assessment skills and ability to make autonomous clinical decisions and judgments.

Coaching and mentoring skills

IT literate-keyboard and word processing skills.

Completed band 7 PDSN competencies.

Excellent communication skills

Desirable

• Understanding of health policy and the national and local nursing agenda.
• Database management.
• Clinical audit.
• Application of management/leadership skills and autonomous practice.

Special Requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel across different sites and within the community setting in a timely and efficient way.

About the employer

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too. We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users. Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo