Practice Nurse Specialist in Diabetes

Job Description

Riverside Health Partnership are recruiting a permanent Practice Nurse Specialist in Diabetes to join their team. The position is available for 37.5 hours per week. The successful candidate will be required to undertake the following responsibilities:

  • To provide nursing services to the practice population by evidence based, quality focused care.
  • To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care.
  • To ensure clear channels of communication exist between clinical, administrative and community teams.
  • To project a positive and friendly image to our patients and other professionals.

All employees are expected to display a high standard of teamwork. This includes cooperating in undertaking the work of absent colleagues or assisting others where the workload is particularly high. Accordingly, there may be a requirement, from time to time, to undertake other duties.

  • To provide assessment, treatment, screening and health education services and advice, working in accordance with set protocols, guidelines and NMC Code of Conduct.
  • Provide nursing service/treatments to patients independently or in participation with general practitioners with reference to aforesaid agreed protocols and guidelines

about the practice

As a practice we embrace new ideas and innovation. Training practice with 7 GP trainees. Great support from PCN staff from the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS). In-house practice pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, with a medicines management team. Excellent and highly skilled nursing team with supportive Nurse Manager. Monthly nurse meetings with support from a GP Partner. Monthly In-house and locality-wide protected learning. High QOF achieving and CQC rated “Good”.

5 GP partners, 7 Salaried GPs and 6 ANPs seeing undifferentiated clinical presentations, performing home-visits.

Retford, market town by A1, <1.5hrs on mainline to London, commuting distance from Newark, Notts, Doncaster, Mansfield, Lincoln, Rotherham and Sheffield. Good schooling and affordable housing, abundance of countryside pursuits.

how to apply

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