Diabetes Nurse​/Practice Nurse

Honiton Surgery, a GP practice of 17,749 patients, is recruiting a registered nurse to lead diabetes services alongside its practice nursing team. Most of the work is nurse-led diabetes clinics, assessing and treating patients with diabetes or pre-diabetes, initiating insulin and GLP-1s, and supporting colleagues. Diabetes is the main focus, though extra hours up to full time may suit a suitably qualified candidate, and nurses without diabetes experience may join a development pathway.

Five years' post-registration experience and an enhanced DBS check are essential.

• Run nurse-led clinics to assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment for patients with diabetes, pre-diabetes or undifferentiated diagnosis
• Lead the planning and delivery of diabetes services with the practice team, promoting integrated pathways of care
• Initiate insulin and GLP-1s where indicated
• Mentor colleagues and delegate clinical tasks within their scope of practice
• Contribute to local and national practice targets, such as QOF
• Refer patients to other services and agencies and liaise to support vulnerable patients
• Promote health and wellbeing through health promotion screening
• Deliver treatment room services including immunisations, wound care, cytology and routine health checks
• Undertake home visits for patients with diabetes
• Keep accurate clinical records, use clinical codes correctly and manage chronic disease registers
• Detect and manage side effects and adverse reactions to prescribed treatment
• Request pathology tests and process the results

• Registered Nurse
• Existing diabetes qualification or experience, or a strong motivation to undertake diabetes training

• Evidence to meet nurse revalidation requirements and continuing professional development

• 5 years' post-registration experience
• Managing diabetes and chronic disease management
• Practice or community nursing
• Working autonomously

• Wound care, suture and staple removal, venepuncture, ECGs and new patient medicals
• Immunisations (routine, childhood and travel) and chaperoning
• Requesting pathology tests and processing results, advising patients
• Accurate clinical record keeping and working within own scope, referring to GPs when needed
• Understanding of PGDs, clinical policy and evidence-based practice
• Excellent written and oral communication, with strong IT and clinical systems skills

• Enhanced DBS check
• Occupational Health clearance

• Flexibility to work outside core office hours

• Two years' diabetes management in a primary, community or hospital setting
• Managing elderly and housebound patients
• Quality initiatives experience
• Mentor or teaching qualification
• Nurse prescriber qualification
• Master's level diabetes qualification
• Audit experience, including leading audit programmes
• Clinical governance and clinical risk management knowledge

• Development pathway to become a diabetes nurse for suitably motivated candidates