Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse

Job summary

Working within an existing and busy paediatric diabetes team this is an opportunity to develop skills and knowledge in a specialist nurse role and diabetes management . RMCH have rare and complex cases of diabetes which will give you wider understanding of the variants of diabetes.

Do you have the enthusiasm, interest, and energy to be part of delivering excellent care to CYP & families with all forms diabetes within RMCHThe Children’s Diabetes team at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital (RMCH) is pleased to be able to offer a band 6, 2 permanent posts for a Paediatric Diabetes Nurse Specialist.

You must be passionate about paediatric diabetes and achieving optimum health outcomes for children, young people and their families living with this long term condition.

Experience with in diabetes is desirable but a full training and a comprehensive induction package will be offered.

The established multi-disciplinary team comprises of paediatricians and endocrinologists, nurses, dietitians, psychologists and a youth worker working to provide a seamless service across, primary, secondary, tertiary and qua ternary care environments. Care is delivered in the home, school and within inpatient and outpatient settings. An established insulin pump service has been in place since 2006 with approximately 50% of our current caseload on insulin pumps.

Service performance and outcomes are continuously being measured as part of Best Practice Tariff. We fully participate in the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit and are able to benchmark ourselves against similar services.

The team provides support to families Monday-Friday from 08.00 – 17.00 with out of hours service available for families.