Community Assistant Practitioner - Diabetes

Community Assistant Practitioner - Diabetes

The closing date is 16 March 2026

The Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Diabetes Team is primarily based in West Norfolk. We are a growing, friendly, and supportive team who provide care for people living with diabetes in a variety of settings including clinics, patients' homes and care settings. We are a team of highly skilled, motivated individuals, each offering their own areas of expertise and we pride ourselves on delivering high standards of care at all times, while embracing change and innovation.

As a team we are consistently looking at ways to improve the delivery of care we provide and educational support to other health care providers.

As part of an innovation, a fantastic opportunity has arisen to work within the NCHC Diabetes Team. We have a Band 4 post available for 18.75hrs/per week. You will be predominantly covering South with the opportunity to support colleagues in other Places. You will work alongside a Band 6 Diabetes Specialist Nurse and under the supervision of the Diabetes Specialist Nurse Lead for NCHC.

You will work within the Diabetes Team providing knowledge and skills.

You will be managing your own caseload assigned by the Diabetes Specialist Nurse.

You will be responsible for carrying out diabetes reviews, venepuncture, foot checks, education, and continuous glucose monitoring and application.

The role will include health education to the service users, their families, carers, and other agencies involved in their care management.

The role requires flexible working.

The successful candidate will hold a full UK driving license and have access to their own vehicle as you will be required to travel independently around the county.

To contribute to the delivery of high standards of health care to patients within their own homes, care homes, the travelling community and in clinics, by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating packages of care.

To work under the supervision of Diabetes Specialist Nurse to assess and review patients with diabetes to optimise treatment regimes, including but not exclusive to, educating in insulin self‑management, supporting assessment through use of Libre device and undertaking diabetic foot checks.

Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand‑alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.

Clinical

The post holder will:

• Assess patients with straightforward requirements based on predetermined department protocols.
• Prepare for, carry out and monitor assessments and treatments in specified clinical areas, and discharge in line with predetermined department protocols.
• Apply competency‑based treatment techniques/care to patients with specific conditions under the supervision of a qualified practitioner, following a prescribed treatment/care plan.
• Modify and progress intervention / treatment using own clinical reasoning, notifying a qualified practitioner accordingly.
• Prepare for and develop individual/group activities to meet defined intervention needs.
• Monitor patients and promptly alert a qualified practitioner when there are unexpected changes.
• Demonstrate problem solving, and contribute to the solution, working with colleagues.
• Make basic judgements on patients response to prescribed treatment, and report findings to a qualified practitioner.
• Plan and prioritise own visits to delegated patients, and ensure these are documented in personal work diary.
• Ensure patient held records are completed for each visit, and that Systm One inputting is completed on a daily basis.
• Where there are barriers to understanding, such as hearing impairment, mental capacity impairment and other difficulties in comprehension, explanations require adjustments in order to gain understanding, consent and concordance.
• Be required to use tact and persuasive skills in order to gain the patients co‑operation in their treatment/care/management plan.
• Liaise with GPs, Social Services, inpatient teams, other allied health care professionals and the…