Diabetes Nurse General Practice

The Helsby and Elton Practiceare currently recruiting for a professional, caring and hardworking practice nurse with a specialist interest in diabetes to join our friendly and supportive nursing team. The ideal candidate will have experience of working asa practice nurse managing diabetes within primary care with a good understanding of the Quality Outcomes Framework.

Please note this is a part time role with a minimum of 2 sessions per week and flexibility with hours can be considered.

The successful candidate will provide and maintain a high standard of nursing care for patients, focusing on, but not limited to, the monitoring and management of diabetes. This will include both patient education and pharmacological intervention for diabetesmanagement. This role will be supported by the diabetes lead nurse. Other duties will involve immunisations, cervical screening, long term conditionmanagement such as hypertension however experience within these areas is not essential.

Helsby and Elton Practice is an established practice of 9900 patients from a diverse range of social, ethnicand cultural backgrounds. Our team currently consists of 5 GP Partners, 2salaried GPs, 4 Advanced Nurse Practitioners, 1 Practice Nurse, 1 GP Assistantand 2 Healthcare Assistants, as well as a bank of reception and admin staff whoare committed to patient care. We welcome any questions about the practice andthe advertised role.

EMIS (candidate must be able touse EMIS)

On site free parking

High QoF achievement

Training practice

The main aspect of this role is for diabetes management. This will involve routine monitoring, annual reviews, follow ups/ diabetes queries. This will involve working within local and national guidelines to provide excellent high quality care to our patients living with diabetes. Although prescribing is not essential it will involve decision making around pharmacological intervention with support from the diabetes lead nurse/GPs as required.

Although the role is not advertised for general practice nurse duties, it may involve the following:

• Cervical Screening
• Routine Immunisation/Childhood Immunisation
• requesting laboratory tests such as bloods, urine sample, swabs (as appropriate)
• Urinalysis
• Administration of injections such as B12, Depo Provera, Testosterone injections

• Experience of working as a diabetes nurse in primary care and/or the community.
• Previous experience and skills in the management of diabetes in primary care including knowledge and experience in the use of pharmacological input inline with national and local guidelines.
• Able to work autonomously to manage own clinics but also work well as part of a team.
• Understanding of QOF (Quality Outcomes Framework)
• Previous experience of LTC management (Hypertension, Asthma, COPD, CHD)
• EMIS trained
• Previous practice nurse experience and trained in cervical screening and immunisations

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.

Advanced Nurse Practitioner/Nurse Manager