Job overview

Working Full time : 37.5 hours per week

We have an exciting opportunity to join our diabetes team at the Countess of Chester to work in our inpatient diabetes service along side an experienced band 7 nurse,  This post is to support patients  on our ward areas  with Diabetes related issues, education for patients, there relatives and our ward teams. The role will cover all aspects of inpatient diabetes care. 
The post holder will act as a Key Worker and a specialist resource of current clinical information addressing the specific needs of individual patients through direct/indirect interventions. 
The post holder will possess a critical understanding of detailed theoretical and practical knowledge in their specialist area of practice.  They demonstrate initiative and are creative in finding solutions to problems and have some responsibility for team performance and service development. They consistently undertake self-development and liaise across all care settings, referring patients to other relevant Health Care Professionals, when appropriate.

A key objective of the role will be to work as part of and contribute to the development of the multidisciplinary team.  The post holder would support the development of nurse led clinics and existing clinics and also expand and support the CNS team

Main duties of the job

1. Plan/organize own workload accordingly.
2. Attend wards/departments to assist and work closely with the MDT to carry out consultations and treatments.
3. Promote and develop the specialist advisory and supportive role of a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in Diabetes, demonstrating specialist clinical skills and knowledge base supported by post registration education and qualification. Encompassing nursing care needs, including where necessary palliative and end of life care.
4. To undertake extended roles as the service and individual needs dictate with full support and training from senior staff.

To facilitate early discharge planning enabling appropriate arrangements to be in place for patients leaving hospital, making referrals and providing information to community services, as required, achieving a safe and timely discharge from hospital

Working for our organisation

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.                                                              

 The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.