Job Title: Diabetes Nurse Practitioner
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: No
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Full time/Part Time: Full Time
Term Time only post: No
Advert Closing Date: 06/01/2026
Job Overview
At Health and Care Jersey our values are centred on patient focus, respect & dignity, compassion, working together, and continuous improvement. As an autonomous practitioner, the post holder will lead on clinical care and collaborate with multiple disciplinary teams to provide evidence based, person centred, high-quality diabetes care for the inpatient diabetes service.
Aims of the role are to reduce admission to hospital, reduce the length of hospital stay, provide safe discharge from hospital, and consistently strive to improve the safety and experience of people living with diabetes, who access hospital care at Jersey General Hospital.
The Clinical Nurse Specialists role will include;
Triage and caseload management, specialist clinical assessment of people with diabetes in the inpatient environment, recommending and planning treatment and care, monitoring and evaluating care delivery. Agreeing on safe post discharge follow up, and referral to GP, family nursing, agency or liaising with Diabetes outpatient services to provide ongoing diabetes care.
Educating patients on and promoting self-management of diabetes; assessment, provision and use of diabetes self-monitoring equipment (glucose/ketone meters, continuous glucose monitors and basic use of insulin pump therapy), education on diabetes medications, new insulin initiation and medication adjustments.
The post holder will provide high quality training to healthcare professionals. Contribute to Diabetes MDT and clinical governance meetings, develop clinical guidance with the aim of striving to improve the safety culture within diabetes care.
For an informal discussion, please email Alex Watt- A.Watt@health.gov.je
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Jersey Public Service Careers
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities—working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.
To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.
For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks.
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