Specialist Diabetes outreach Nurse- Maternity Leave cover: Sponsorship Available

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Diabetes team at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (NCIC) as a band 6 Inreach/outreach Specialist Diabetes Nurse. This is a temporary post for 12 months to cover maternity leave and could be a fantastic secondment opportunity for the right person

The post holder will be an integral member of the Diabetes Service specialist team, providing care, treatment and education to patients living withdiabetes and their families. This will involve working closely with the community network of health care professionals to deliver an integratedpackage of care between hospital and primary care in particular to empower a patient’s self-management with their insulin.

The aim of the role is to support admission avoidance through early reviews and provision of 1:1 patient education within a patient’s own place ofresidence and also to facilitate early discharge from acute and community hospital settings by providing continuity of care. This involves closeworking with District Nursing Teams for complex case management and also community hospital wards

Main duties of the job

  • Demonstrate competency in the development of individualised management plans for a patient with diabetes in inpatient andcommunity settings.
  • To support the principle of self-management for people with diabetes and sign-post people to information and support toencourage informed decision making about living with diabetes and managing life events (e.g. peer reviewed structured educationprogrammes).
  • Support the person with diabetes in setting realistic goals and in theachievement of those goals. This is often in unique circumstances.
  • To support and provide training to NCIC staff in all settings in relation to management of diabetes. This may be acute wards,residential homes, district nursing teams or GP practice.
  • Establish, maintain and titrate insulin regimes, and where appropriate review for discontinuation of insulin.
  • Be aware of national and local guidance and training requirement on insulin safety.
  • Demonstrate awareness of the importance of daily foot checks in those with poor mobility, the frail and the bedbound.
  • Be familiar with the person with diabetes’ treatment regimen and device or delivery systems

Person Specification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Significant general nursing experience within the NHS
  • To have detailed knowledge of all aspects of diabetes and associated risk factors.
  • To have the ability to work autonomously, efficiently and professionally locality wide visiting patients in General Practice surgeries, Health centres, community and acute hospitals and emergency home
  • Experience of teaching adults
  • General IT skills including experience of windows based software and MS Office
  • Understanding of current NHS issues and initiatives
  • Knowledge of clinical governance and its application
  • Up to date knowledge of the developments in diabetes care

Desirable

  • To have or be willing to become a DESMOND/ DAFNE/ Walking Away trainer
  • Experience of undertaking clinical audit

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree level education
  • NMC registration
  • Basic qualification/short courses in specialist area (Diabetes e.g. Warwick Course A205, CIDC, Bradford Diabetes course) or willing to work toward

Desirable

  • Adult Education Teaching Certificate
  • Diabetes related qualification such as Warwick or Bradford
  • NST307 or will work towards

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential

  • Demonstrable clinical skills within specialist area, including physical assessment skills and basic life support
  • Ability to obtain and evaluate information to aid decision making.
  • Confident, diplomatic, good organisational ability, pleasant disposition, able to work in isolation but part of a team, co-operative & flexible, able to deal with difficult/emotional situations

Other requirements

Essential

  • To able to travel independently of public transport and be able to travel widely as and when required.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 29 October 2026

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