With an annual turnover of 2.6 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom.

Chaired By Ingrid Barker And Led By Maria Kane As Chief Executive, Bristol NHS Foundation Trust Aims To Transform The Way Healthcare Is Delivered Locally With a Clear Focus On Making a Difference For What We Call Our Four Ps

• Better outcomes for our Patients
• More opportunities for our People
• Fairer more consistent care for our Population
• Best Value for Public Purse

Our Vision For Five Years From Now

• Patients will wait less time to be diagnosed and treated, and they will have the same high-quality experience and outcomes, regardless of who they are or where they live.
• We will meet rising demand by maximising the use of our available resources.
• More care will be delivered nearer to patients, in their homes or the community.
• Digital technologies will have transformed the way we work and the way we deliver care.
• Our people will feel engaged, energised and empowered by their work.
• We will be known as a place where people enjoy working, training and building a career.
• Our volume of globally renowned research and innovation will have grown significantly.
• We will contribute to system financial balance

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

• Assess, differentially diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment interventions for diabetes patients by virtue of enhanced clinical judgement and close liaison with members of the MDT.
• Use diabetes expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and / or diagnoses.
• Initiate, evaluate, and modify a range of diabetes interventions which may include prescribing medicines, therapies, lifestyle advice and care. Use empowerment and counselling skills to enable individuals with diabetes to make life changes in complex situations and self-manage their condition.
• Provide specialist and expert diabetes clinical knowledge to colleagues, patients and carers/ relatives both within and outside the Trust.
• Exercise professional judgement to manage risk appropriately, especially where there may be complex and unpredictable events and supporting teams to do likewise to ensure safety of individuals, families, and carers.
• Ensure compliance with their respective code of professional conduct and work within their scope of practice.
• Works in conjunction with the MDT to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care.
• Work in partnership with individuals with diabetes, their families, and carers, using a range of assessment methods as appropriate.
• Be able to demonstrate a critical understanding of their broadened level of responsibility and autonomy. This includes being critically aware of their limits of their own competence and professional scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty, and incomplete information.
• Be responsible and accountable for their decisions, actions, and omissions at this enhanced level of practice.
• Utilise professional judgement and maturity, understanding when to seek help.
• Demonstrate critical reflection on own practice, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and openness to change.
• Demonstrate effective communication skills, supporting people in making decisions, planning care, or seeking to make positive changes, using Health Education England’s framework to promote person-centred approaches in health and care.
• Work collaboratively with an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources, developing, maintaining, and evaluating links to manage risk and issues across organisations and settings.
• Evidence the underpinning diabetes specific competencies i.e. knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the role setting and scope, and demonstrate application of the capabilities to these, in an approach that is appropriate to the individual role, setting and scope.
• Act as a clinical role model/ advocate for developing and delivering care that is responsive to changing requirements, informed by an understanding of local population health needs, agencies, and networks.
• Initiate drug therapy/ medication within the parameters of agreed clinical guidelines and in accordance with the legal framework you work under to supply and prescribe medicines (if from professional group legally entitled to prescribe).
• Request diagnostic intervention and investigation and interpret said investigation within the practitioner’s scope of practice.

Person Specification

Education/Training/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Active Professional Registered Qualification with a professional body e.g., NMC, HCPC
• Post registration qualifications/CPD in area of diabetes practice as a minimum.
• Non-medical prescriber (If appropriate for statutory profession and role)
• Proven leadership experience
• Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation

Desirable criteria

• Enhanced Clinical Practitioner Level 6 or above qualification

Work Experience

Essential criteria

• Grounded knowledge of the diabetes environment
• Demonstrable experience of service improvement and transformation, achieving cultural change to improve service quality
• Experience of implementing local/specialist objectives
• Proven track record of successful management of change and leadership
• Excellent organisation and leadership skills
• Ability to act independently, resolve complex clinical situations and have good decision-making skills
• Experience of management of the complex diabetes patient
• Experience of involvement in research and audit at a local level within current or previous roles.
• Ability to interpret and apply best practice and promote its use with others
• A sound understanding of professional priorities and issues

We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.

As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.

BFT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.

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