Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

We are seeking to appoint an experienced and highly motivated Nurse who is a role model for our Trust Values, can work autonomously, be flexible in their approach, inspire others and has excellent organisational and leadership skills to join us as a Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist.

We welcome applications from those with a flexible, self-motivated, and dynamic approach to patient care, who have extensive post registration clinical experience and the ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service. In return, we can provide you with a supportive working environment, fantastic training, and opportunities for professional development.

Key Responsibilities

• Promote and set high standards of professional nursing care and maintain the delivery of quality care within the trust values, policies, protocols and guidelines.
• Provide professional nursing leadership to MDT within sphere of clinical responsibility. 
• Lead and co-ordinate the service alongside the lead consultant and the other Band 7 nurses within the team.
• Take a leadership responsibility for a key service need.
• Continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care.
• Act as a specialist clinical practitioner demonstrating developed clinical skills and knowledge.
• Support with the development of a service philosophy and models of care to ensure that all policies and procedures are implemented and to participate in the development of nursing practice.  Monitor any impact on the patient experience.
• Ensure that any patient quality and safety issues are addressed in a timely manner. This includes monitoring and evaluating standards of care by the clinical team and providing regular feedback to the specialty team on the standards of care.
• Implement evidence-based practice, identify, initiate, manage and evaluate changes that lead to improved and high standards of care and in particular any service changes following feedback from patients. Use information to inform Business Plans for the specialist area.
• Demonstrate awareness of national and local guidelines relating to specialty (e.g. NICE guidelines) and influence care developments in accordance with these.

Essential

• Current RPN, registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications.
• BSc Degree in relevant field 
• Teaching qualification /experience with an accredited NMC mentorship course
• Minimum 2 years experience in diabetes care and management.
• Car owner and full driving license.

Desirable

• Master's degree
• Non-medical prescriber

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years post registration experience
• Significant demonstrable experience within specialty with evidence of professional development.
• Leadership development programme
• Evidence of change management with relevant management/leadership course
• Evidence of leading a team or projects and evidence of outcomes from this
• Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources
• Counselling and research awareness
• Clinical supervision – where applicable monthly attendance
• Independent prescriber
• Experience of undertaking nurse led clinics

Skills and Knowledge

• Clinically competent
• Clinical decision-making skills
• Advanced Communication Skills Training
• Effective leadership skills
• Organisational skills and forward planning
• Flexibility
• Able to support development of others
• Coaching and mentoring skills
• Critical appraisal skills
• Strong customer service skills.
• IT literate
• Experience of leading/undertaking audit
• Understanding of the theory and application of Clinical Governance.
• Demonstrable experience of effective management and supervision of staff and taking charge of ward /unit
• Articulate and knowledgeable around health policy and the national and local agenda around diabetes service provision
• Ability to maintain a calm, professional manner whilst juggling many priorities.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.