Diabetes Facilitator – Bank Contract

The post holder will work as part of the local specialist diabetes team, as an autonomous practitioner assisting practices across North East Essex with the development of new to diabetes practice staff to improve confidence and achieve diabetes competencies within their own practice setting. An instrumental role focusing on developing and upskilling HCPs working within diabetes within the area ensuring the local work force remains upskilled within diabetes.

What is the role?

• To work as a facilitator across Primary and Community Care to educate and support our clinical partners in the management of diabetes care.
• To provide education, mentorship and development for other healthcare professionals involved in the wider diabetes pathway and within NEEDS.
• To take an innovative approach to improving diabetes care and patient outcomes across the whole diabetes pathway, alongside other members of the MDT.
• To support practices locally and the NEEDS clinical team in the provision of clinics/education for people with diabetes depending on locality need.
• To empower HCPs working within practice enabling them to support people with diabetes across North East Essex and bordering areas as defined by the service requirements, to self-manage their diabetes and reduce risks of associated complications within their own practice area.

 You’ll join our Diabetes Team. We are a not-for-profit, community interest company and our main purpose is to support Primary Care across Suffolk, including support with working collaboratively and at scale. We also deliver a portfolio of NHS services across Suffolk and North East Essex, including Podiatry, Ultrasound, Diabetes, as well as Urgent Care Services including the Out of Hours face-to-face Service in Suffolk.

Is it for me?

We will work alongside the successful candidate to ensure they are sufficiently inducted and trained; there will be regular constructive supervision in place. It is important to us that you feel safe and supported in the role. This is an ideal role if you:

• Have a passion for helping people with diabetes and have a range of advanced clinical diabetes skills
• Enjoy working and supporting a range of Health Care Professionals.
• Are flexible in place of work and comfortable working within different GP practices across North East Essex.
• Enjoy supporting colleagues and working within a team.

Contract type: Bank.

What we can offer you:

• A strong ethos of flexible working, to help us maintain (or reclaim) that work/life balance.
• Innovative teams who strive in forward thinking, with a voice that is heard.
• A visible and supportive management team, with operational support that ‘get it’
• Excellent IT teams & support giving us first class equipment and ‘no wait’ responses
• A commitment to personal development, training, and leadership opportunities, with service-managed training budgets
• Competitive salaries with annual benchmarking
• Blue light card employer – Access to the discount service with thousands of discounts online and on the high street.

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.

If you would like to discuss this position or have any questions, please contact:

Hannah Addington, NEEDS Associate Clinical Lead – hannah.addington@nhs.net

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Closing date: 19th March 2025