Paediatric Diabetes Specialist Nurse

• To build professional caring relationships with children, young people with diabetes and their families and carers and be able to communicate effectively and empathetically with children and young people with diabetes and their families always taking into consideration their chronological and developmental age and cognitive ability. • To support, mentor and supervise student and ward nurses, medical students and members of the multi-disciplinary team as appropriate. • To support and enable children and families/carers to make informed decisions relating to their treatment and management. • Utilise all local and national information and ICT systems to secure accurate and timely resource data. • Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct. Will contribute to achievement of corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times, including all aspects of child protection. • Highly developed communication skills enabling maintenance of high quality service within a complex and challenging environment with often, conflicting targets. • Demonstrates responsibility and acceptance for the provision of a high quality professional Service, promoting best practice and implementing a review process that looks at quality and efficiency and quality to meet the needs of patients and service. • A resource for staff, advising on national, local and Trust policy and procedures/guidelines, ensuring that clinical governance is embedded in practice. • Actively contribute to policy development and implementation of policies, guidelines and procedures for the department, ensuring that clinical governance is embedded in practice. Undertake highly specialised technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including; complex patient monitoring; equipment and invasive tests and procedures if relevant For further details please see the attached job description. Job description Job responsibilities • To build professional caring relationships with children, young people with diabetes and their families and carers and be able to communicate effectively and empathetically with children and young people with diabetes and their families always taking into consideration their chronological and developmental age and cognitive ability. • To support, mentor and supervise student and ward nurses, medical students and members of the multi-disciplinary team as appropriate. • To support and enable children and families/carers to make informed decisions relating to their treatment and management. • Utilise all local and national information and ICT systems to secure accurate and timely resource data. • Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct. Will contribute to achievement of corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times, including all aspects of child protection. • Highly developed communication skills enabling maintenance of high quality service within a complex and challenging environment with often, conflicting targets. • Demonstrates responsibility and acceptance for the provision of a high quality professional Service, promoting best practice and implementing a review process that looks at quality and efficiency and quality to meet the needs of patients and service. • A resource for staff, advising on national, local and Trust policy and procedures/guidelines, ensuring that clinical governance is embedded in practice. • Actively contribute to policy development and implementation of policies, guidelines and procedures for the department, ensuring that clinical governance is embedded in practice. Undertake highly specialised technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including; complex patient monitoring; equipment and invasive tests and procedures if relevant For further details please see the attached job description.